Today, the family computer's 15-year-old CRT monitor which gives me headaches finally stopped working. My dad quickly found a replacement: an even older CRT monitor that gives me worse headaches. FML
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Today, I arrived at work, only to find my computer's massive CRT monitor had been smashed up beyond belief. Everyone else has flat-screen monitors, and I'd made no secret of how unfair it is to me. According to my boss, this makes me the obvious culprit, and now I'm suspended. FML
Today, my 81-year-old mother threw out the packaging for a 3-day-old $1,700 monitor I was going to return due to a defect. I live in my own home, but she randomly visits to "clean up" without asking me. Now I'm stuck with an expensive, defective monitor. FML
Today, I cleaned my computer screen for the first time in ages. When I turned it on a few hours later, I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out why the brightness was suddenly so painfully high. FML
Today, the family computer kept overheating. My four-year-old son thought the solution was to pour a nice, cold cup of water on it. FML
Today, our work computers are down so I've been trying to fix it via my home computer for 3 days. My 12-year-old son took one look at the screen, changed 2 settings on a drop down menu, and the problem was fixed. My 12-year-old is better at my job than I am. FML
Today, my doctor told me that the reason I'm losing my eyesight is because I'm straining my eyes, and that the best thing for me to do is to limit my time in front of computers. I spent years in college to get my current job which involves sitting in front of computers. FML
Today, my aged mother continued to complain about her computer issues to me. A relative, who is good at tech support, won't bother servicing her computer because whatever she does ends up bogging it down the next day, so I have to hear about it on the phone. FML
Today, as I was using my mom's computer, a spider crawled onto the screen. So as per my usual reaction to seeing a spider, I smashed it as fast as I could. I missed the spider, but now I have to buy my mom a new monitor. FML
Today, I found out my mom is getting rid of cable TV. My dad and I bought her a 700 dollar plasma screen TV for Christmas. FML
Today, I returned home to find out that my new and very expensive computer had overheated. I confronted my mom, and she told me that she had covered up the fan because she didn't like the noise. FML
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Welshite 40
Time for some sabotage. Eventually you'll be reading off of stone tablets and cave drawings.
amandathecreator 22
Sounds like you need to buy your own computer
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Comments (91)
jimmer23 21
I have a difficult time feeling sorry for you. Buy your own computer.
miianah1 22
I agree. It's like the FML where the girl was mad at her mom for doing her laundry wrong. OP sounds very inconsiderate and doesn't realize that not everyone has lots of money. YDI. Sorry if I misinterpreted this FML, but I'm just going by what it says.
jimmer23 21
Inconsiderate, or maybe just immature.
granCanyon 12
There's no need to make OP's life miserable just to teach him that life can be a b*tch. CRT monitors were horrible. No one should use them anymore. Like I said in a comment above. Money doesn't explain this. You can get an LCD for not a lot of money and if you're lucky you can get one for free if someone throws away his old hardware. That's what I would do if I were OP. Just ask around. Don't be shy and go check school, universities etc. You'd be surprised what you can get from an university if you're lucky ;)
False_Stupidity 42
If OP's parents don't have the money for a new monitor then what are the chances that the OP (who we don't know the age of) has money for a whole new computer?
Mauskau 36
CRT monitors use more electricity than LCD, so they would be saving on their electricity bill if they upgraded. Why should OP get a new pc when they could just get a different monitor?
jimmer23 21
My point is simply that if something bothers you, fix it yourself. Griping won't do anything.
thief1434 23
That is literally the point of FML...
Hidebehindarock 19
No it's not..when you can get something for free but in turn you ^%#% about something isn't a fml its laziness. There are multiple websites that have a free category and there are monitors on the sites all the time.
theLonelyInn 5
Check the refresh rate, mate. By the way, how did you get your hands on CRT?
nshetland 10
Time to build a better one!
casste 6
Don't use it then... Read a book. Or buy your own computer...
penel96 15
You should buy yourself a new computer
xluciferx666 21
Time for the monitor to suffer an "accident"
FranckGonzalz 16
Daddy to the rescue :)
_just_joshin_ya 13
You should be able to change the refresh rate to a setting that doesn't give you headaches
Foxfire15 15
default is 60 iirc. try 59 or 75. Or try turning off any nearby lights
superrocket19 17
Cut some wires back there
loloalltheway 23
Move to Sweden--> get a citizenship--> enroll in school(best if it's gymnasium) -->get a free laptop. Or you know, just go to the library or maybe even buy you own? I'm sorry that was rude, you might not afford one of your own... Btw This is your dads way of saying that you need to spend more time outside hahah