Today, like always, my parents are such tightwads that they refused to turn the heating system on, despite the ball-freezing temperatures. I was so cold, I had to resort to warming my hands up over the toaster. FML
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Today, my parents have kept their bet going about not turning the heat on all season. I woke up this morning to it being the same temperature inside as it was outside. It's snowing out there. FML
Today, my mom made me go shopping with her. It was freezing out, but she didn't wear a coat, boasting that she doesn't feel the chill like I do. By the time we drove home she was whining about freezing to death, and now I'm stuck in a house whose heating is set to "inferno". FML
Today, my parents went on holiday, finally, and since I’m always freezing I took the opportunity to actually turn up the temperature on the boiler. Not 30 seconds later my dad called pissed and told me either I turn it back down or he’s coming home from Spain to kick my ass. FML
Today, my heating broke. It's 22 degrees outside, and my father won't let us call someone to fix it because apparently the cold helps the soul grow. FML
Today, the lack of heating in my room has gotten to the point where I have to cuddle my clothes for the next day at night so they're not freezing when I wake up. FML
Today, my mom wants to save money on both heating and electricity. Put into practice, this means that the temperature in my room is about the same as that in our fridge. FML
Today, my boiler packed up on me just as the weather has turned cold, with no money to have it fixed. Hello to a week of freezing cold showers. FML
Today, the whole upstairs was so cold that I had to wear mittens inside. When I asked my parents why it was so cold, they replied that to save money, they had decided not to heat the upstairs, since "nobody is ever up there, anyway." My bedroom is upstairs. FML
Today, I found out that shutting off the heat in the rental property my parents owned was a bad idea. The water froze and the pipes burst, causing the whole kitchen ceiling to fall down. The water ruined the wood floors and the appliances. I turned off the heat to save money. FML
Today, I got a phone call to say my workplace was closed due to extreme weather conditions. Looking forward to my day off, I then realised the boiler was broken and my house has no heating despite there being a foot of snow outside. I'm spending the day in bed, wearing all my clothes. FML
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Lanceeden 12
Toasters scare the shit out of me when they finish.
Rico_Mal1116 0
Well I bet you feel toasty now!
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Comments (170)
madreedy 7
You are so lucky being in a cold area Yesterday at 11 am the outside temperature was 51 C :(
Blobster900 0
Wow realy you FML about the stupidest thing.
jc_follwer 0
Man up u panzy
jc_follwer 0
Man up u panzy
gangstamittenz 5
I live in Alaska. It's not cold enough to have the heat on yet. Also, ever heard of a blanket?
Ins0mau 20
Maybe they live in the southern hemisphere where we are still getting over the winter that just finished?
iwadasn 33
Can people not use blankets in winter?
DakotaCat 4
Where the **** are you where its freezing in September? Your pussy ass must cry all winter long then.
MsMeiriona 2
Put on more clothes, dumbarse. Geez, such an easy solution. Unless your eyeballs are icing over, you can probably manage to keep your body heat in.
live_2_eat 5
I hate that. Maybe go to a friend's house or public place with heating and if your parents complain, say that if their refusal to use the heater wasn't so ridiculous, you would have just stayed at home.
newlove_fml 0
Wait--they're cheap enough to not turn on air conditioning, but you have, from what we can tell, a toaster, and some sort of Internet accessible device. Did you buy these items or did they? Just saying.
R4P3DwithALOHA 0
Ur cool
Petal23 11
Aah, that brings back memories of being a student! The good old days when having to use the oven was cherished because then you could leave it open afterwards to heat up the kitchen...