Today, I was at a pond taking pictures with my new camera. I saw a mama duck leading her babies around and decided to get in closer to take a picture. Mama duck got spooked and led her babies too close to a waterfall escaping. One fell off. It never surfaced. FML
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Today, I tried to take a cute selfie with a majestic swan by a lake. Just as I was about to take the pic, the swan suddenly got visibly bored of my shit and chased me into the water. I emerged from the lake looking like a soggy, defeated swamp beast. FML
Today, we took the kids to the local pond near my sister-in-law's to feed the geese. I hadn't been there before, and thought I'd take a picture. I turned around to adjust my camera, but the geese, realizing the feast had ended, took flight. Before I could react I was showered with goose shit. FML
Today, I tried to take a picture next to a peacock, but ended up running away with a face and mouth full of feathers. FML
Today, while driving home, I swerved to avoid turning a duck and her babies into roadkill. Another car was coming around a sharp bend at the time and swerved to avoid hitting me. In the end, we both ran our cars off the road, and he took out several ducks in the process. FML
Today, I was trying to take a cute selfie on a hiking trip. As I leaned against a boulder to get the perfect shot, a squirrel jumped out of nowhere and attacked me, probably thinking I was after its food. I dropped my phone into a creek, and my friends took a picture of me freaking out instead. FML
Today, while running in the park, I noticed some ducks in a pond. I stopped to look at them and began quacking at them, to see if they would react. This would have been OK had I not been wearing ear-buds, blasting music, making me unable to realize just how loud I was quacking. With people all around. FML
Today, I bought a new goldfish. While leaving my fish on my balcony to go get fish food, I hear a loud squawk and splash, I race outside to see a bird flying off with my fish. FML
Today, I saved a baby bird from the site I work on. It was the runt and did not have any feathers and was neglected by the mother. I took care of it all day at work and planned on taking it to a wildlife reserve after work. Two minutes away from the reserve, we hit a pothole and I dropped it. It died. FML
Today, I stopped at a park because a duck was following me. I assumed it wanted food, so I gave it a small piece of bread. It followed me to my car, waited beside the door, and then followed me across the parking lot. I may have accidentally adopted a duck. FML
Today, I was tasked with taking a photo of my best friend getting engaged. As her boyfriend got down on one knee, I got so nervous that I fumbled the camera. It landed right in the lake. I didn’t get a single picture, and now I owe them a new Canon EOS R10. FML
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xNatsuki 0
Oh my.. Now I'm sad.
teehee520 0
D= Poor duck. But yeah, good job.
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Comments (311)
RainaMadeilline 0
Awwww why why why did you kill the duck
Mademoiselle_fml 34
Aw poor thing. I hope you learned your lesson; animals are very easily spooked.
dearprudence89 7
He chose the duck life But the duck life did not choose him #DuckLife
HOB0HUNTER 2
Holy shit, people! Are you imagining a frantic getaway with explosions and fire, leading to the duckling falling off a massive drop? In reality the ducks probably just meandered away at a brisk pace and one was bad at swimming.
jujuroxursox 15
Poor baby
ddlovatolover 23
I hate you OP. The poor ducky ):
RenoTheRhino 30
Today, my children and I were looking for a pond to get some fish when some asshole creeped up beside us. Trying to get away from him, I ran down beside a waterfall. One of my babies tripped and fell of the edge. FML
kiaroxilles 8
I don't think OP deserves this. It's not like they intentionally meant to harm the ducks, they were just trying to get closer to take a cute picture. FYL, maybe next time don't get so close to wildlife?
thatfangirl 8
I read this out loud to my friend and she started crying. That sounds extremely traumatizing and horrible
supertacowaffle 41
I found this nearly 6 years after you posted it and it's made me sad. FML