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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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)
NoMercy_fml 0
Your a ******* dumbass for not saving regularly
jeneveere 0
oh fk, im sorry dude
RK5000 0
Ctrl S!
xflora 0
This happened to me, too, except it was an online exam that I couldn't re-enter, and my cat walked onto my laptop and hit the power button. :( I frantically e-mailed the professor saying that I'd accidentally hit the power button and closed the exam. All better now! So yeah, FYL, not mine.
withered 30
#187 If you were taking an online exam why did you let your cat walk over your laptop? Why would you let your pets walk over expensive and/or important equipment in any situation? I wouldn't let you retake the exam as you could have easily moved the cat away from the laptop or ensure beforehand that it wouldn't bother you (aka put it in another room).
aaa12321 0
oh ffs this is fake. If you don't use Word (since it didn't autosave), you are computer literate enough to have downloaded a word processor and obviously would save often. If you post on FML, you are computr literate enough to save. The poster is either lying or is exaggerating about losing the first sentence since it doesn't say that he began working substantially on the paper. Why do the mods even approve stuff like this? It's not funny. It's just stupid as hell. No one wants to hear about something who lost their work even if it were true, which it isn't. Completely boring. This site didn't get popular because of dumb stories of people not saving their papers.
aaa12321 0
And NO ONE loses long papers because of power button issues like this. You might lose a 2-paragraph response paper your first time using a computer in elementary school, but by the time you are doing senior papers for hs you probably save automatically without thinking about it. BS
cocodaloco 0
Theres a Good dog At least Your dog now knows a new trick:)
st87 0
Wow! Your teacher will say "u might as well just say that the dog ate it".
XGCHappyFace 0
You must have an old ass computer if simply touching the power button turns it off... most computers/laptops today have the built in feature where in order to do a hard-shutdown you must hold the button for 3-5 seconds... Also, another reason why Cats > Dogs :) and why having your computer on a desk != having it on the floor. ( != means 'does not equal' for those less techno savvy people )
YLS 0
A sort of duel "your life sucks" and "YDI" It's a shit situation, for sure, but you should always, ALWAYS save often. At least you still had the general idea of everything you typed in your head? And now you know to keep your dog away from the computer.