Today, the power went out at school. If it's out for more than twenty minutes, standard procedure is to let us go home. They came back on almost nineteen minutes later. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML
Today, the power went out at school. As a senior, I don't show up until third period. When I got there, I signed in as usual. The office secretary waited until I signed in to tell me that if I hadn't, I wouldn't have to attend classes that day. Now I have to sit in class doing nothing. FML
Today, a strong storm knocked the power out at our office. I was dismissed five hours early, had my desk locked up and was walking toward the doors to leave when the power came back on. FML
Today, the power at work was out. This would be fine, if they didn’t make me stay for another hour to wait for it to come back on in the Texas heat. FML
Today, the power went out to my house a second time after coming on a few days ago due to a series of severe storms that rolled through the area. The first knockout took less than 12 hours. This one? A little over three days in a heat wave. FML
Today, our power went out due to some severe storms. My daughter, who is 18, asked me why the lights on the car still worked. FML
Today, the power in my village went out. This caused the back-up battery powered alarm to go off. Nobody in the house even knew our alarm worked, let alone how to make it stop. It's been going off for over an hour now. FML
Today, there was a power outage at my apartment. I ended up deciding that the power wasn't going to come on any time soon, and that I should go to a hotel for the night. Just after I unpacked at the hotel, my neighbor called to say the power had come back. FML
Today, the power went out. Thankfully, it was early in the morning so I should've been able to sleep through it. Then I realized I have an impossible time sleeping during power outages. FML
Today, I was doing an online live exam with the camera on when the power suddenly went out. FML
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Top comments
LouiseD_fml 10
Damn that's unlucky..
lollovelife0304 3
That sucks, getting out of school early is always fun. Too bad.
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Comments (168)
daybar12 8
Judging by your grammar you don't need any time off school!
DatRealAssTruth 3
There are hardly any grammatical errors. What are you talking about
mma1099 5
Their grammar is just fine...
hurrican_fml 0
What's wrong with the grammar? I've seen way worse
siickman 7
It doesnt always have to be 100% perfect you know.
iarefatal 9
The only thing I found fault with is their use of "they" refering to the power. Unless they actually meant the electrons that flow, I believe were referring to the lights, but didn't mention them specifically. Needless to say though it was just a simple mistake, which, believe it or not, we all make sometimes.
kroekdog 7
Judging by your grammar, you don't get to judge anyone about their grammar.
fernclogger 5
This happens in college a lot. with teachers not showing up for 15 minutes there is no class. A lot of times they will show up after 13-14 minutes
TurtleSmile 14
I can picture some troll teacher in the breaker room laughing maniacally right now.
ellieOphant 4
20 minutes? Wow...none of the schools I ever attended did that!
A7XCamaro 19
There is a good chance they still wouldn't let them go even after 20 minutes. At the high school I went to we were supposed to get out if the power was out more than an hour or so, it went out one day at 9:30 and came back on around 3:00, they wouldn't let us leave because appearantly the power company kept saying it would be back in about 30 minutes.
NicoleAshley10 0
I bet that crushed your heart that you couldn't go home early.
donut_gurl 8
so your life sucks because you had to stay at school? what is this world coming to?
BntyHntrSeattle 30
Not saying they don't appreaciate school, just that they wish it got out early, which is always fun :)
lilhellian 27
Obviously someone never had the fun of skipping a day or two. :/
Dcm210 19
I would've went home anyway.
BellaBelle_fml 23
That would be considered ditching and the OP would get into trouble, if they get caught that is. Depending on the school's policies and procedures the OP could get detention or possibly a suspension.
ICastillo 25
Look at the glass half full Op you get to learn stuff for the rest of the day.
ICastillo 25
Why The thumb downs ... Doesn't anybody like to learn anymore?!?
ninjadinos 14
High school isn't so much learning as it is BSing your way through standardized tests.
MormonPornstar 7
For real. I had all if my credits taken care of before my senior year in highschool started, and he bastards refused my early graduation request due to "lack of purpose of early grad" So... I did all the shit they wanted and still had to go to y senior year cuz there was no 'reason' for me to graduate early.
traveler_ghost 12
the school electricity was trolling you. I would have left anyway
ViQValentine 3
that's happened to me before..