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)
ZING_MASTER 0
WOOF WOOF ZING!
EveryoneIsDumb 0
Wow, it could be the power button for a power strip, which is quite easy for anyone to hit, is not beveled and instantly turns off all devices connected to said strip without asking you if you want to. My username is, and always will be, correct.
JackR1104 0
YDI for not saving, retard.
Sevenfold 0
Sucks for you. I save it every-so often to prevent that from happening.
thejoz 0
As a recent college graduate who wrote many, many papers over the past 4.5 years, while I do feel some sympathy toward your situation, this is still a YDI. I mean as it is, Word 2003 does (or is at least supposed to) autosave your paper every like 10 or 20 minutes or something, so it should be recoverable...but even if it doesn't, if you're writing a very large paper, you should be saving every few pages or so, just in case. You poor bastard, but in the end, it's your own fault.
doctorskully 0
Auto-save. Learn to love it.
milkradio 0
That's why you save your work after every sentence or two you type. It's become a reflex for me. It sucks, but shit happens.
kingbeau 0
Why would anyone design a computer to shut down at a touch? Usually you have to hold them down for 5-10 seconds don't you? To keep exactly that from happening? I'd say anyone who designs that kind of power button should probably not be working with computers... If its a switch then maybe... but if computers even still have those they're usually hidden in the back aren't they?
scorpioserpent 1
sucks so much! But you should save it every few sentences or so.
illeyad 0
Always ALWAYS save as soon as you start the word project- I think every student has suffered the misfortune of losing a paper that was not saved.