Today, I was finally going to fall asleep at a decent hour. Having insomnia, I generally get about 2 hours of sleep. Right as I'm about to fall asleep, 5 firetrucks decide to drive right in front of my house with the sirens/lights on. 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, after 5 hours of attempting to sleep, I began to finally drift off. Then, some fuckwit who'd parked his car right outside my door took 20 minutes to switch his alarm off. I have to be up in about 4 hours, after a 12-hour night shift, heading into another. FML
Today, I'm dead on my feet. My flatmate's alarm went off for 20 minutes at 5 a.m., which I heard and he didn't. A car alarm went off outside my window for half an hour at 7 a.m. My building fire alarm went off twice, at 8 and 8:10 a.m. Just let me sleep. FML
Today, I finally managed to sleep, after two days of being kept awake by the miniature floodlights my neighbors have installed to scare off burglars. Only a couple of hours into my sleep, I woke up to the sound of their car being broken into. FML
Today, after two hours, I finally got my very cranky, sick baby to fall asleep. Five minutes later, a neighbor started shooting off fireworks. FML
Today, as a lifelong insomnia sufferer, I was having an awful night. After tossing and turning in my bed for several hours, I decided to try sleeping on the couch. Not only did I finally fall asleep, I was having one of the best dreams of my life… Until my neighbor’s brat had a tantrum at 6 a.m. FML
Today, after 3 days of insomnia, I was able to finally fall asleep, just for there to be a fire in the apartment building about 15 minutes later. My mom called me selfish for waking her up in the middle of the night to ask if I could stay with her, and told me I better not rent a hotel room with the money I owe her. FML
Today, while trying to sleep after a night shift, workers came to hook up city sewage service, firing up drills and shouting. An hour later, my child woke me up to tattle on her sister. Just as I was drifting to sleep yet again, the smoke alarm battery started chirping. I give up. FML
Today, I was awoken by my neighbor pounding on my back door at 3 am, only to look outside and see my car engulfed in flames. FML
Today, my neighbour from across the road phoned me at work telling me there was a fire engine outside my house and a lot of smoke. I drove home in a panic, smashing a rear light on a post and getting flashed by a speed camera. It wasn't my house. The firemen were putting out a bonfire next door. FML
Today, at the ungodly hour of 11 PM, my dad called to tell me he was driving my mom to the hospital because she was having breathing problems. It turned out to be nothing serious, but my brain decided to freak out anyway, effectively making me unable to fall asleep. Now, I have to go to work like this. FML
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theironuterus 0
I'm sure the people whose house was on fire were equally annoyed with this small inconvenience
aback 5
God, people. I don't see where the OP is complaining that the firetrucks saved someone's life, she's saying that she had the bad luck of the fire happening JUST as she was finally drifting off. You morons giving her a hard time about it are going to be crying when she conks out behind the wheel and takes your SUV out. OP--I feel for you. Insomnia is horrible. I hope you can find something that works.
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Comments (187)
minuteforce 2
Go f**k yourself.
Hjelloo 0
Some retard across the street probably burnt their toast or something.
Nacirema20 0
awww... im srry... :-/ FYL. :-/
Sadie30 0
I'm really sad to hear so many people not understanding how debilitating insomnia is. I have had problems with that my whole life so I completely understand how an obnoxiously loud sirens right when you are desperately trying to sleep would make you just want to- well if it were me I'd probably be hoping that that house burns down lol. When you severely lack sleep even the slightest disruption- even a bird chirping or children laughing- can feel like torture!
Assassin4than 0
i didnt know vehicles had the brain capacity to make decisions. firetrucks decided to go to your house just to wake you
Raytestrak 3
You're really sad to weigh in your own sleep heavier than the lives of others. I'm sure insomnia sucks, but when people could be burnt to a crisp, I'm pretty sure that's worse. STFU.
BigBlueMonster 0
That sucks! Yeah, people could have died if the trucks hadn't gone, but the OP isn't putting his sleeping above others' lives. He's just saying that it was unfortunate that it happened RIGHT THEN.
Hockeylover87_71 0
just be glad they weren't going to your house, or you probably wouldn't get any sleep
iambecomedeathpu 0
Wahhh. I can't sleep. Someone's house is burning down, you inconsiderate prick!
Chocolate_Chunk 2
Why don't you go around posting "Someone's starving to death in africa, you inconsiderate prick!" on every single FML?
Anderson_J 0
yeah that sucks something like that happened to me but it was 5 a.m. and the fire alarm went off