Today, my cell phone service was interrupted because I owed the company 27 cents. It cost 36 dollars to reinstate my service. FML
Collection
Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I had to sell my phone to pay for the phone bill. FML
Today, I got my cell phone bill. I pay for 700 minutes per month. I used 9 last month. FML
Today, I seemingly misplaced my cell phone but didn't have time to look for it before work. This evening, my cell phone company calls me to tell me I have six hundred dollars worth of calls to El Salvador that I have to pay for. My cell phone was not misplaced, it was stolen. FML
Today, I overdrew my account and ended up paying an extra 35 bucks for a 1.99 item. It was an application on the iPhone that is supposed to help me keep track of my money. FML
Today, I received an almost $400 bill for Internet services I don't even have. When I called and talk to them they told me I still owe them $77 because I didn't catch it within 3 months. FML
Today, after having lost my phone three days ago, I paid a $150 non-refundable fee to have my phone replaced and mailed to me by Tuesday. A half hour later, I found my original phone. FML
Today, I found out that I owed my school $0.20. They decided to charge me a late fee of $20 for deferring the intial payment. FML
Today, the government froze my bank account for not paying college debt, and now I can't access my 0.30 cents. FML
Today, while I was out of the office, I'd left my phone charging inside. My boss informed me that since I am clearly running up her electricity bill, it will be deducted out of my already nearly non existent paycheck. FML
Today, my cell phone broke. It wouldn't even turn on. I went online to access my account so that I could order a new phone. I couldn't remember my password. The phone company had an option of "forgot my password". Upon clicking I get a message saying "Your password will be sent to your phone". FML
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
Blahp 0
That's kinda the problem with computers... any human would have just been like "whatever."
jet_fml 0
Why wouldn't you pay 27 cents?
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (83)
lazorzpewpew 0
YDI. First thing you learn with any service (be it phone, TV or bank accounts) - pay in full and pay soon, they will fck you over royally.
Tehalon 0
YDI, pay your bills! WEWT 24th!!!!!!!111!!1!1!!!!
BenignScientists 0
YDI, Sorry mate mate, but read your contract and pay your bills. Best you learn with a cellphone bill, not with a bank loan for a house. $36? A price to pay to learn an important lesson if you ask me.
boatiebanter 0
Surely they would warn you at least once before just cancelling your service. And if they don't warn you, you should make extra sure you've paid your bills in full and on time.
rukusrazor 0
YDI, know what owe. Know the days they bill. Your credit score must suck. lol @ #24!!!!!!111!111eleven1!!! #5 - DIAF.
deaditegirl 0
YDI. Pay your bills. It's not hard.
Swan_fml 0
assholes! you make some minor error and you get screwed.
kingbeau 0
#21, a lot of phone companies charge the same amount for incoming texts as they do for sending them. They do not, however, offer much significant protection against spam text messages. The amount they charge just for outgoing texts is almost always several orders of magnitude more than it actually costs them. If that's confusing, a simple text message is fairly certainly between 1 and about 10 kb, and a relatively slow internet connection will give you 100kb/s. Lets say that they charge 15 cents for one text message, and a further 10 cents for messages outside north america. Now lets say that you spend an average of an hour in a month just loading web pages from the united states and a half hour loading webpages from elsewhere. At 100kb/s, you'd have "moved" 360,000kb from north-american sites and 180,000 from elsewhere (a ridiculously low estimate for most people), for a total monthly data transfer bill (assuming 10kb size at cell phone rates) of 9900$. Now you can say that cell phone service is magically special and that it really is that much harder to move a few kilobytes over the "airwaves" than over the good old "series of tubes" and that it really does nearly double the cost to send it overseas (or over ground to mexico), but frankly that's hardly believable to begin with and the advent of "wifi anywhere" type technologies from seemingly every company under the sun would fly in the face of it. So, long story short, cell phone companies live by ripping people off, and if they can tell a computer to shut off a guy's service for less than a cent and take him for 36$ then that's what they'll do.
jb29 0
pay the bill, dumbass
redbluegreen 41
I agree with #27. I would've thought they'd have warned you, or you'd be on top of that sort of thing. And honestly, $36 isn't that much. I've had to pay almost $800 just because of a misunderstanding.