Today, I took a shower after I finished typing an important essay I've been working on for days. My computer illiterate mum shut the computer down when I was gone, without saving a thing. When I confronted her, she yelled at me for "wasting electricity". FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I accidentally left my bedroom light on all day. When I got home, my mum screamed at me for wasting electricity. This is the same woman who leaves the TV on all day while she’s at work, all so our dogs have something to watch and won't be “bored”. FML
Today, my mother told me to take a quick shower. When I got out, she told me I took too long, and now I have to pay the utilities bill. My shower was two minutes long. FML
Today, my mother called me "wasteful" because I left the refrigerator door open and that "electricity money doesn’t grow on trees." This is the same person who lets my little sister have her light on all night, because she’s scared of the dark. FML
Today, I woke up early, went to the gym, then came home and showered. When I went into my room to change, my mom woke up and started pounding on my door, screaming about how lazy and useless I was for sleeping so late. When I tried to tell her otherwise, she grounded me for "talking back". FML
Today, I fell in the shower and knocked myself out. When I came to I turned off the water and called my mom. She seemed more worried about the amount of water I "wasted" than she was about me. FML
Today, I returned home to find out that my new and very expensive computer had overheated. I confronted my mom, and she told me that she had covered up the fan because she didn't like the noise. FML
Today, my mum had no legitimate reason to have her daily yell at me, so she resorted to bitching me out for putting her phone on charge after it started beeping with a low battery warning. FML
Today, I am expected to write an 8 page essay, due tonight. The reason why I don't even have one page yet? My mom decided to take away the only computer I have the essay saved on because I have an 'F' in English. The essay is for English. FML
Today, my mom demanded that I go into the basement and fix the water heater. I told her that I had no idea how to fix it, so she threw my phone down the stairs, told me to Google it, and locked the basement door behind me. It's been two hours. FML
Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML
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114tigers 0
Dude you should always save your shit before you leave the computer. Trust me.
isantorin 0
if it was that important, YDI for not having the common sense to save it.
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i_hate_gym 0
I never understood why people don't save thier work as they go. YDI
Logica42 0
Ugh, totally... I save mine as often as I can (unless I totally space and forget, but that doesn't happen very often). But still, OP, it was rude of you mom to just shut it off, especially without saving it. Bitching at you for wasting electricity is one thing, and I would somewhat agree with her there (depending on how long your showers are and how long it takes your computer to boot up, haha), but to actually just shut it off when there are projects in work is rude. ESPECIALLY without you even THERE. There are better ways of getting her point across, and she could have easily used them if she wasn't determined to be as rude as possible. /shrugs FYL as well as YDI. Edit: And, to make matters worse in my eyes, it's something I could picture my mother doing (after she read all of it, of course, and possibly looked at my browser history).
sickinlove13 0
I agree. I get paranoid when saving my work on my laptop 'cause I forgot to save it or something like that. So I save my work multiple times while typing and I even e-mail a copy to myself in case my laptop crashes or something like this happens.
s4209704 0
wow i thought i was paranoid but i only save three copies of imp files, two in my computer and another on the SD device loaded into my computers SD slot
beast92 2
sucks but YDI for not saving your work. Stuff like that has happened to me and I jus learn from it. Hopefully you learned from it
poiuytrewqlkjhgf 0
WTF why didn't you save it? YDI.
ncochrum 0
Get your mom one of the video professor CDs they sell on TV. Although I don't know if they're available in Singapore
koda_fml 0
You ARE wasting electricity if you're using the computer for something school related without saving your work. YDI big time.
Sorrel 0
Yeah, if you turn it on right now, it will be there. If you were using word that is. Still, your mom is stupid, but YDI for not saving as you went.
WIDRR 0
Agreed, this has happened to me, word automatically saves it. But YDI for not saving anyways.
InkGothical 0
you can't blame your mum for that. you're the one that didn't save before you took a shower.
quaggledoo 0
ALWAYS SAVE. YDI
kvgf1484 0
ydi, you should save your work multiple times throughout working on it. Computers are so unreliable that if you don't save it you'll lose everything if it crashes, and you should especially save it yourself when you're finished.
18legalawesome 0
And you didn't save your progress WHY?