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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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)
justaquietghost 0
[Please see #53] And, good luck finishing your paper :]
DeathBoy 0
Lesson learnt. Good luck with the rewrite, hope it's not fatal. X
Mugen_fml 0
hey 99. I'm pretty sure your running MICROSOFT ON THAT DELL. All dell did was make the outer shell or sub contracted it. Microsoft is the OS, not the outer computer. You failed twice. Alt-F4 from your life as someone said previously. I can send you some rope or weights if you need them. If you're going to lie about something, at least have the decency to know what your lying about.
curlybrunette 0
that truely sucks, i save every few sentences.. you will now to
Glam_fml 0
I just love how everyone here thinks that their computer/word processor is the same computer/word processor that everyone else in the world uses. It's quite amusing. *ahem 121, 122, and the other* FYI: not everyone uses the same computer as you and not everyone uses microsoft word. I know that must be a shocker. I know the program I use doesn't autosave. And, like numerous other people have said - the OP probably meant the dog stepped on the switch to her power strip, which would instantly shut off the computer. Op - that really, really sucks. I did something similar once. Sometimes you just have to learn things the hard way. Hopefully you remember a lot of what you wrote.
jengen 0
Write a post-it note to yourself and stick it on your computer... "SAVE YOUR WORK!" I hope you have time to re-write the paper and submit it.
tornado87 0
what makes the OP stupid by not saving? Smartasses. Sorry to hear it, it's happened to me before and the autosave didn't recover much. Even more annoying is when you finish something, spend hours correcting and editing then lose the work because of a power cut etc and then can't remember what you had and hadn't done and have to start over again!
CRZYCHiKAx0x 0
so unrealistic. come on.
dankadank 0
WHO THE **** CARESSSSSSS
cxal_fml 0
YDI - every one knows by now to save, at least once every 15 minutes, minimum. I once had a problem when I started college with a bad box of floppies. I had lost work from a computer dying before, so i decided to save to the floppy first. Took me three times to realize that the reason my computer immediately shut down, erasing my work, was due to a problem with the floppy I was trying to save the work too