Today, the instructions on my new IKEA bed made me cry. It includes a picture of a person working alone with a frown crossed out and is replaced by two smiling people working together. I have no one in my life to help me. FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, the only thing that cheered me up was a documentary about IKEA, and seeing how my furniture was made. FML
Today, I spent two hours building an IKEA bookshelf. When I was finished, I realized it was inside-out. There was no way to fix it without completely taking it apart again. FML
Today, I tried to put together some flat-pack furniture. I wound up in my underpants, screaming stuff like, "Fuck you, fucking Ikea bastard" at pieces of confusing plywood. FML
Today, I attempted to assemble a piece of furniture that boasted "easy, step-by-step instructions." Three hours later, surrounded by mismatched screws and a confusing diagram, I realized the only thing "easy" about it was my decision to ask my dad to come round and assemble it for me. FML
Today, I woke up with my face sharpied. I live alone. FML
Today, I spent an hour painstakingly disassembling my antique mirror after discovering a stack of papers behind the back board. I finally got hold of one corner, and pulled out… a newspaper from 2007 and instructions for an IKEA bed. FML
Today, I attempted to assemble a piece of furniture that claimed to be "easy to build in minutes." Four hours and multiple arguments later, I realized I had misread the instructions, and half the parts were upside down. I'm pretty sure the furniture won this round. FML
Today, I noticed that my weekend hobby is crying. I live in a city where I don't have a single friend or relative. FML
Today, I went into the bathroom and got angry upon finding that once again, no one had bothered to put on a new roll of toilet paper. And then I remembered that I live alone. FML
Today, after opening up to my husband about my mental struggles after a difficult birth, I shed a few tears. He left me there to go take a nap. FML
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Top comments
Luckster 0
These days it's actually not very easy to make friends. If you try to talk to a random person in a mall or a bar or anywhere, they just look at you like you're a ******* retarded moron, mock you, and walk away.
noshcherie 0
awwwww! i would help you.
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Comments (154)
Blotto_fml 0
Awwwww. I thought everyone was happy in NYC. Thats what it looks like on tele anyway.
beanstalk0311 0
Haha normally I take joy in just adding fuel to the fire and insulting the persons story, but this one actually made me say, "aww". BUT now I'm back to normal hahaha it must suck to be you! Suicide?
MissOriginal 0
I hate it when companies make people feel bad about choosing a single life..... FYL......
AntiChrist7 0
Just post an advert: "Woman needs man to fix her bed". You will drown in the replies
lettertjes 0
Just ask a neighbour or something. I hardly know my neighbours but if they would ask me to help them build their Ikea bed, I would do so as soon as I had the time.
milfi 6
haha, the first sentence made me laugh
KatieGoesRawrr 0
you're not the only one.
youthink_fml 0
Wah, wah, wah. I hate it when people cry about being single.
Dion_fml 2
uhm, you cried about an IKEA instruction ? make a guess why you're single
Anteezy 7
Ugh if that made you cry it's no wonder no one wants you.
spellfire 0
Hush, don't cry. Even if you had someone in your life - a husband, a lover, or a friend - there is no guarantee at all that they would help you. Worse yet, instead of just refusing, they might be making excuses and telling you that perhaps, some day, when they're not so busy - and if you believed that, you'd be stuck forever with an unassembled IKEA. There is power in relying only on yourself - this way, no one holds you down. Besides...being friends with someone so that to have someone to help you? Better be friends just for the joy of their company, and not depend on their help. Oh, come on! Was that IKEA so hard to work on?