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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Top comments
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)
cantth1nk0fnam3 3
autosave? but that does suck. i would beat my dog for it if that happened to me
peopleplz2008 0
Microsoft word has always kept things saved automatically in case the computer shuts down spontaneously
tomFTW 0
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Fluffiness 0
LOL! #5 ****** ROCKS!!
lologirl419 0
Hah that sucks... but seriously dude, YDI for not saving your work. I suppose you learned a valuable lesson, especially if you already had a lot done. XD But why don't you have auto-recovery?
djbon2112 0
You were writing a "huge paper" but hadn't saved once? YDI... P.S. Learn the ways of the save Jedi: Ctrl+S every 30 seconds.
olive_you 0
Lesson learned the hard way: Save every ten minutes.
aaa12321 0
I still don't think he "learned" anything. People are complaining that he didn't save often but apparently he didn't save once on this large papers which is hard to believe. If the dog hit the power button, it may have started the shutdown sequence (to just kill it you usually hold) in which case a notification would ask you sure...there are programs open etc. This FML doesn't make any sense and couldnt' have happened.
Asdas_fml 0
YDI. Thats why you save after every line* or when making a fix*. If you're writing a paper all in one go without any thinking pauses save every 30secs or so. If you need thinking pauses, save on every pause, if you need to think after every sentences, save there. It's little hard of course if your program takes like 5-10 seconds to save, but it's better than losing the whole work. Totally YDI. *when you're coding at least.
insomniacdude 0
Save early and often. YDI, no questions asked.