Today, I was going out to my car with my sister's birthday present. I slipped on some ice and the present fell to the ground. I spent an hour wrapping...

By GymnasticsQueen - 8/2/2010 00:35 - United States

Today, I was going out to my car with my sister's birthday present. I slipped on some ice and the present fell to the ground. I spent an hour wrapping it. I could hear the present break. I had gotten her $200 wine glasses. I then had to run to the nearest store and get her a CD instead. FML

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Ok, first of all you don't know me so you have no right to criticize me. You don't know how much pain I am in. I twisted my wrist when I fell. I am really good at gymnastics so don't say ANYTHING about that, but now I can't go to practice until my wrist is better. I was putting her present in the passenger seat, I wouldn't get out on the passenger side if I was driving so I had no way to know there was ice there. I'm not rich and neither is the rest of my family. My sister has been wanting these wine glasses since the Christmas of 2008. I couldn't find them anywhere. I have money set aside for gifts and things like that so I don't have to worry about making sure I have enough money; I have been setting money aside like that since I was 16.

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By wearinsexypants | 0

#839078 - Tuesday 9 February 2010 22:13

Listen up sweetie: By putting yourself up on FML, you are inviting criticism. If you'd spent any time at all on the site before submitting your story, you would know that everything comes up for debate. Of course you deserve to defend yourself, but it does no good to get worked up about it at all.

By Nathan23xx | 18

#6161005 - Friday 2 January 2015 21:33

It also does no good to judge so hard when they are posting here. Obviously she already had a bad day

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By BrownSugar_fml | 5

#834237 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:27

aww, damn it!

WhatANoob | 0

#835683 - Monday 8 February 2010 22:12

Was the CD Hannah Montanna or the Pokemon Theme?

pwincessa23 | 1

#836083 - Tuesday 9 February 2010 1:09

lmfao!!!

GymnasticsQueen | 0

#836386 - Tuesday 9 February 2010 2:29

And actually WhatANoob I gave her a Black Eyed Peas cd. If I couldn't give her the wine glasses at least I could give her a cd she would like.

Danielt104 | 6

#837411 - Tuesday 9 February 2010 8:52

You should've given her the broken glasses. Lol jk

Danielt104 | 6

#837414 - Tuesday 9 February 2010 8:54

OP, what happened when you gave her the CD?

By skeleton_skinner | 0

#834239 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:27

I so sorry!

By JoshTheMaggot | 8

#834243 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:28

Too many negative votes, comment buried. Show the comment

sarahmarieee | 0

#834269 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:40

Ahah! love it.

sarahmarieee | 0

#834274 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:42

(Unless you accidentally put whine.. I laughed anyway.)

Would you like some cheese with that whine? Hmm?

g02hell | 2

#834567 - Monday 8 February 2010 13:22

5 just got the OP with a classic.

Twinklestar | 0

#834666 - Monday 8 February 2010 14:20

I can understand taking an hour to wrap. I usually make an excessive bow out of ribbon that is different widths, and sometimes cut out one of the pictures that is on the wrapping paper or a photo of the person, stick it on cardboard, and make a paper spring out of the same wrapping paper and attach that to the middle of the ribbon.

babybubz | 0

#834680 - Monday 8 February 2010 14:27

lol
..you have too much time on tour hands

babybubz | 0

#834702 - Monday 8 February 2010 14:38

...your >.>

fylreally | 0

#835674 - Monday 8 February 2010 22:05

FYL. Seriously

By ambrz | 0

#834275 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:42

maybe you could of told her what happened? it's the thought that counts so she should appreciate that at least...

By RyeBreadBoy | 0

#834276 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:44

Who spends 200 dollars on wine glasses? What were they, crystal stemware? No one uses crystal stemware.

Mandy_fml | 0

#834900 - Monday 8 February 2010 16:36

My parents have wine glasses worth £40 a glass. And they weren't nearly the most expensive ones in the shop.

CaptMacLeod | 45

#6654780 - Thursday 21 July 2016 19:31

I love crass generalizations. I can't speak for the rest of "no one" out there, but I use my stemware regularly. why? Because it's nice.

SailorSolaris | 42

#7632375 - Wednesday 9 May 2018 13:49

My family has an entire cabinet of crystal dishes and stuff received as gifts before I was even born. We never use them, but they’re still gorgeous.

By wearinsexypants | 0

#834288 - Monday 8 February 2010 9:51

SO... It takes like 5 minutes to wrap a present, 10 if you are going crazy or if it a particularly unweildy shape, which I assume, as a box of wine glasses, this present was not... So you failed before you even got outside.
And apparently you value yourself more than $200, since presumably you dropped the gift presumably to break your own fall. You know a lot of people break arms trying to stop themselves from falling. Really, it's not a bad thing to value your life more than an inanimate object, but it seems you have a problem with it. Of course you should have held on to the box while you fell, possible cracking your head and lying in ice for hours until some neighbor happens to spot you... Cuz at least you would still be able to give your sister her present! So why don't you be thankful that you didn't get hurt and give your sister a heartfelt apology, a hug, and an IOU instead of a cheap last minute replacement?