Today, I was writing a huge paper for a class as our last grade. My dog starts scratching himself. He hit the power button on the computer. Nothing was saved. 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, I was busy writing my English final paper and all of a sudden my computer just chose to freeze. I thought Microsoft Word would save it, but alas, 4 pages down the dumpster. Plus my earphones stopped working and I can't afford to buy a new pair. FML
Today, right after I finished writing a very important paper and saved it to my hard drive, my barely 2-year-old Macbook decided to completely stop functioning. I went to the Apple store and even they can't get it to turn on. That's $1500 down the drain along with my grade. FML
Today, I sat down at my computer for the first time in a week, and discovered that my cat had thrown up all over my keyboard. I needed to write up an important document but the chunks were stuck down in the keys, effectively locking it up and making it useless. FML
Today, I realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML
Today, my cat decided to use my keyboard as a scratching post, and now my computer won't work. FML
Today, my step-mom restarted the computer because she thought she'd downloaded a virus that stopped her from being able to click on anything, erasing my 7-page paper in the process. It turns out it was just the batteries dying in our wireless mouse. FML
Today, I finally finished my 500 page manuscript and so went out to buy some paper to print it off. I get back home and find out my dad has infected my computer with a virus and the only way to save it was to wipe the hard drive, which he did. That script took me a year and I have no backup. FML
Today, while trying to get my attention, my dog got her nail stuck in a usb port in my laptop. She freaked out and ran off, dragging it off my lap and through the house before if came off. Her nail was only slightly chipped- my laptop now has a cracked screen. FML
Today, I went to check my grade, which was posted for an essay for my comp 1 class. I got a zero. I was devastated only to find out I never actually clicked the submit document button. My grade dropped 20 points. FML
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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althemaster 16
Ans THAT'S why you should save every 2 seconds... No but that really sucks...
xxmollyxx 25
A new version of the dog ate my homework, cool :D Still sucks though!
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Comments (273)
Demon_Squirtle 0
#81 if you HOLD it. I said hit it. BIG difference. The dog probably didn't hold it if it's viciously scratching itself. Don't say I know little about computers when you know little about reading.
zargon 1
There is only one thing that can be definitively said here: YDI for not saving. That said, there are a _lot_ of stupid people commenting today who apparently don't know anything about computers and/or think every computer is set up exactly like theirs. Not every program autosaves, for example. Sure, Microsoft Word and Open Office both do, but I don't use either of those. Ever. They both suck. Plus, we don't even know what kind of paper it is. If it's at all mathematical, I'll cry if OP was using one of those. My chosen editor doesn't autosave. Thanks to a decent saving practice, this has never been an issue. Not every power button is configured to send the shutdown signal, and power button behavior freely configurable on your computer. I, for one, prefer to keep my power button to send the power off signal instead of the shutdown signal. Further, there's the switch on the power supply and the surge protector the OP is using if ey has any intelligence whatsoever. Plus there may be a restart button on the computer. Mine, for example, automatically powers down the computer and repowers it, for use when really bad things happen. I'd say totally believable, but still, how stupid do you have to be to get an appreciable amount done and not save?
iDontFail_xD 0
#92 & 94 = FAIL I have a DELL and its a 2001, and it doesnt save it. What now?
meliese 0
Murphy's Law!!!!
epicfailLOL123 0
thatsss why you're supposed to save it every few seconds... =P i've lost sooo many papers because of that. well now you know =] lol
mello_love 0
YDI for not saving, your computer could have just as easily crashed.
sockergurl916 0
2 things. 1. my microsoft word does NOT autosave 2. why the hell are you on this website when you should be rewriting your paper?
Tsukasa_fml 0
#6 LMAO.
Charley_5054 2
YDI for not saving often.
24788 7
I save every second no matter what. I add anything I need to save it. I don't trust my computer.