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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megs8907 0
ah man, that's worse than "my dog ate my homework" sux!
were_giraffe 2
Yes save frequently. I had something similar happen to me at college - someone accidently hit the "emergency off" switch that powers off all the monitors... and apparently the computer tower I was using was plugged into that circuit.... 2 hours of work down the drain. I'd been saving the work to the desktop, but the computers were programmed to wipe out all changed data upon logging off or rebooting... after that, I made a point of working only off a thumb drive, using frequent saves.
Powahouse 0
Gotta remember to keep saving that shit, bra!
dan81892 2
FYL, but i also have to say YDI because you didn't save. i hit the save button after like every little change lol.
whatnow2859 0
that's why you should get a mac the power button is on the back of the monitor so no button to be pushed by your careless dog
melyssa_fml 0
that sucks, I've had that happen to me but my nephews were the one to push the button you need to save very often or use Microsoft word, they auto save it for you.
frootloop25 0
These days the newest versions have the recovery option. It temporarily saves your file so you can retrieve it...hope you were in such luck.
lighttts 0
The exact same thing happened to me two weeks ago. I was editing a music video i was making for my broadcast/journalism class and it had already been extremely stressful and i had already had one emotional breakdown over it. So as i was getting everything under control my dog gets under my computer desk and laid directly on the power strip disconnecting everything. I was thankful for the auto save every ten minutes on movie maker
KoreanGuy 0
Dude i feel you that happened to me twice!
Me27 0
YDI big time.