Today, I went to my son's final band performance. I also have a busy toddler, so I ended up watching most of the performance in the hallway on a tv monitor. In the middle of the awards ceremony, my toddler pulled the fire alarm. Everyone had to evacuate the building. FML
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Today, I went to my kid's band concert. She's 12 and in the advanced team. They were the first ones to play and they were so incredibly bad that I laughed. Really, really loud. I was escorted out of the recital. FML
Today, I went to my son's high school play. The moment I arrived at the auditorium, I shouted out his name to let him know I made it. Thinking I was a student, a teacher yelled, "SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN!" Scared out of my mind, I quickly obeyed, to mass giggling from the kids. FML
Today, I was a guest performer for a school orchestra concert a grade above mine. When they called my name, I didn’t hear them, so when they started the song hundreds of people watched me run on stage. FML
Today, I was dragged to the food store with my mom. While we were shopping, the fire alarm went off. My mom pushed the cart at me, nearly knocking me over, and sprinted for the door. FML
Today, I went to court to file a small claim and found myself at the end of a huge line. The moment I got to the front of the line, the fire alarm went off and we all had to leave the building. The moment I got outside, the alarm stopped and everybody rushed back in. I'm at the back of the line. FML
Today, since I had no lessons until 1 p.m., I headed out to the store to run errands. Our school has a strict policy against leaving the campus during school hours. I returned to a fire drill taking place. The fire assembly point? The student parking lot. All 900 students watched me drive in. FML
Today, there was a forest fire in my town. I was still forced to go to school, as it was safer. A lot of people decided not to go, and we ended up doing nothing but watching the news reports. There, I got to see my house burning on live TV. FML
Today, I walked up sixteen flights of stairs to my room to avoid the lift lines. When I was almost at the top, the fire alarm sounded. FML
Today, I performed in my school's choir concert. The girl next to me started to pass out, and I grabbed her so she wouldn't hit her head. After we were done performing and the curtains closed, my choir teacher dragged me off stage and said I was getting an F for "creating a distraction". FML
Today, I was taking the SAT and feeling really confident in my answers. When we were close to finishing, some idiot pulled the fire alarm. All of us have to retake it. FML
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JasonThorn 24
Wow. How did a toddler reach the fire alarm?
ViviMage 40
So as the parent/legal guardian, do you pay the $500+ fine and 6 months in jail? You need to watch your child to make sure they don't get into trouble. A babysitter to watch the child at home costs less than the fine for pulling the fire alarm for no reason does. The good news is as a minor his criminal record will be sealed when he turns 18, unless he keeps the thug life up. (Doesn't impact employment, if they dig they can see it but cannot access whatever is in the record to see what he did).
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Comments (23)
PropsandPieces613 20
I work at a daycare with the preschoolers and I remember when this happened to us. The fire-alarm was above the cubbies and the child had climbed and pulled it. We had three teachers and approximately 24 kids. It was crazy. Long story short, we had to evacuate and the kid wrote an apology letter to the firefighters. And we got a cover for the fire-alarm lol.
Diana Stecchi 6
Ok but she had only one, and also she ruined the other son's performance
ahabsfan 17
You wouldn't happen to be a momma monkey who was trying to eat, would you? Amazing that you learned to type too.
draghkar 18
This happened to me when my son was about 3. It was a low mounted “pull down” model, and he reached up (I remember it in slow motion yelling “Nooooo!”), hooked his fingers over it, and pulled down. We didn’t get in trouble but we did get a stern lecture. Look at “Honeywell FireLite BG-12S Single Action Manual Pull Station” on Amazon to see how it could easily happen.
bigdaddyeric 37
Jesus, talk about poor parenting or a complete lack of multitasking skills. Way to go Mom and be there for your talented son.
Emma Marshall 19
Watch your kid?
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
you have to have chosen the dumbest spot to stand if your toddler could pull a fire alarm
mcdgaf 14
Okay so I won't sit on my phone and judge you for your parenting skills, but I will tell you to keep in mind that that "busy" toddler has to grow up to be a functioning adult and YOU are responsible for that.
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Those fire alarms are usually up pretty high on the wall. How did your toddler possibly reach it? And apparently you weren't watching him...
simcityguy09 19
Smack your child
Michael Lamb 4
Great parenting!