Today, I was woken up by my elderly neighbor banging on my door at 2am. She needed "urgent" assistance as she had forgotten how to turn her TV off. I'd just fallen asleep. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today at 10:00 pm, someone rang my doorbell 4 times, while I was sleeping. I thought it was an emergency and I opened the door to my neighbor who just want to ask if I had a blackout at noon. FML
Today, I woke up to an old lady right outside my open window, saying "Hello in there! Are you sleepy?" I was so startled that I answered her. She screamed. Turns out she's my neighbour's elderly mother, didn't know I was in there, and was talking to my cat. FML
Today, I was babysitting for my neighbors. Their 5 year-old had finally fallen asleep at 11 after two hours of stories and songs. No sooner had I tiptoed out of the room did I realize that my phone had dropped out of my pocket onto the bed. It was ringing. It was their mother checking in. FML
Today, after my old downstairs neighbor, who would come upstairs to bang on my door and yell at me every time she heard a sound from me at all times of the day, had finally moved out, it became clear that my new downstairs neighbor gets drunk and yells at the TV in the early hours of the morning. FML
Today, my mother woke me up by loudly vacuuming the house. I had to work the next morning, so I asked her what she was thinking. She told me that if I was really tired and needed sleep, I wouldn't have woken up. It was 3 AM. 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, I took a nap on my couch. I woke up three hours later to my neighbor knocking on my door, asking if I was OK because looking from the outside in, they thought I was dead. Guess I sleep like I’ve been hit by a truck. FML
Today, I woke up at three in the morning when two cops busted in the door to my apartment and a frantic voice on my cellphone saying "Sir? Sir? Are you all right? Sir?" Turns out I had been having a nightmare and dreamed I called 911. I actually did. FML
Today, I was in the middle of a shower, and downstairs I heard my 7 year old daughter screaming "Mom!! Help! I need you right now!" I panicked and ran downstairs, not giving myself enough time to put some clothing on. It was my neighbor at the door. FML
Today, after an exhausting weekend of work, I decided to take a nap. I was awoken several hours later by my mother-in-law knocking on my door. Apparently my 11-year-old called up grandma to complain that she was hungry and that mum was sleeping instead of cooking dinner. FML
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MelTheGreat 23
Don't be too hard on the elderly. That just might be you one day.
MURIKKA 11
Goddamn remotes are confusing no matter who you are.
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Comments (75)
Tezoma 28
I think I'd probably get frustrated and leave it 'til later in the morning if I were that old lady. Rage quitting and coming back later is often the answer.
loloalltheway 23
But than your sleep would be interrupted by the sound if the tv.... ( if you were that old lady)
Tezoma 28
17, what if it wasn't the TV in her room but in the living room instead? Who's to say it's even close to her room or if she even has one in her room? Why would it be that loud? Besides, I've slept with my TV on, with an air conditioner, and used to live by train tracks. If I were that old lady, it wouldn't bother me much at all.
loloalltheway 23
I believe that old lady got disturbed by the tv when she tried to sleep because the tv was close to her bed otherwise why would she disturb her neighbor to turn the tv off? Perhaps the tv wasn't close but then she maybe was laying in the bed thinking about it therefore unable to sleep...
Tezoma 28
77, I think she may have just been awake and was headed to need when she couldn't turn it off. I sleep my TV on occasionally, so I can't relate to what you're trying to say well. I mean, if you turn the TV down they takes care of any noise issues, and I don't think people just lay there thinking "Gosh, I didn't turn my TV off. I think I'm losing sleep over this.
loloalltheway 23
Ok we don't know the truth, only OP and the lady do so discussing this, making presumptions, isn't good. Perhaps you can't relate to the loosing sleep thing but for some of us, like me, can't sleep with the tv on, even if it's in another room. I have an urge to turn electrical stuff odd before I go to sleep but yeah whatever...
fsomelife 26
This reminded me of Duplex.
loloalltheway 23
Then Go back to sleep after helping her:)
Needafarm 22
For some of us, it's really difficult to get back to sleep after being awakened.
LolPieRofl 11
And in op's case it might be hard as he/she finally fell asleep at 2am.
maddygirl820 10
Aw well if she's elderly it's fine
heyheywaddup 7
Aw at least you helped her! She didn't know!
sophiekat 19
Maybe you will be in her will!
patrickalamo 48
Get her a clapper for christmas
RedPillSucks 33
At first I thought this said "Get her the clap for christmas" WTF!!!
Needafarm 22
My dog wakes me up all the time after i have just gotten to sleep.
perdix 31
Yet she remembered where to find you? Old folks' memory is a funny thing. Show her that shooting the TV is a sure-fire way to turn it off.
Sir_drink_alot 20
Help her often, recently in Australia an old woman left her $12 million fortune to the neighbors who were nice to her rather then the family she hated. Will up held in court BTW