Today, after finally returning to my house after over a year overseas, I found that my neighbours built a wall covering the only window in my bedroom. Not only is my room eternally musty and pitch black, but the council won't accept my complaint, because apparently my window was illegally built. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my new neighbours moved in. I had always thought my bedroom wall was soundproof, because my old neighbours never complained about my loud night terrors. Turns out they were just stone deaf. The new ones can hear everything. FML
Today, it's been three days since I started working 12-hour night shifts. My neighbors have now decided to renovate their house. They're focusing on the rooms sharing my wall. FML
Today, I was locked out of my house. After hours of trying to break the door, I found out I accidentally left a window open. The door, however, still needs to be replaced. FML
Today, I left my window open while practicing the saxophone. My drunk neighbours showed their appreciation for the music with a well-aimed firecracker that set my mattress on fire. My landlord has threatened to evict me as she thinks I set it off. FML
Today, I got nearly kicked out of the room I rent because I refuse to close my curtains at night. Apparently, my landlady thinks it doesn't look nice when people pass by and look. My room is on the third floor and I just want to see the stars. FML
Today, I remembered my landlord telling me that the renovation of our apartment would cause some "minor inconvenience during 3-5 days". We actually spent 5 WEEKS with no windows, no kitchen, and no bathroom, with construction workers appearing in my bedroom and telling me to get out at 7 a.m. FML
Today, I'm still not living in the house I fought so hard to buy three months ago. As I was fixing a hole in the wall, I found black mold covering the back side of my drywall. On every wall. I can't afford to fix it. FML
Today, my neighbors in the apartment above me yet again had a loud fight, well past midnight while I was trying to sleep. I stood on my bed and pounded on the ceiling to shut them up. And now I'll have to explain the two fist-shaped holes in the ceiling to my landlord. FML
Today, the crazy bitch next door called the cops for me spying on her from my bathroom window. That window was painted shut by the previous owner, and I haven’t unsealed it yet. I had to show this to the cops to prove I have no illegal motive for pissing in my own toilet. FML
Today, I found out my upstairs neighbors filed a noise complaint against me for banging on the ceiling every night. They conveniently left out the part where they constantly stomp, shout, and do stuff that sounds like they're dropping bricks to the floor every night. FML
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Top comments
lol_ironic_life 9
That's definitely not what you deserve to come home to! What shall the FML mob do to such inconsiderate neighbors?! ;)
ICATiger 13
How is a window illegally built. Unless you built it while high??
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violetsweety 26
Time to move. =|
thiscrazything 1
Or move the window.
DLBL 23
not easy to "move a window."
theten_fml 9
You could try putting one of those window things that are on the roof and let sunlight through. I think that would be better than nothing.
MrKlutch 1
So build a legal window
VoteForTaco 8
I never knew a window could be illegal 0_0
Bball_boy15 3
1 someone is getting raped in your picture
TeddiursaBear 2
12- you mean a skylight?
skullcandifiedDJ 5
Ram the wall down with a bulldozer
StopDropNRoll 11
Just build another illegal window.
ankoku 2
Build a window in your neighbor's wall.
Angel_Cacey 7
It's war! Build a wall in front of their window and paint something on the wall so it's forever in their view(;
Dyehard 9
50 draw something from a horror movie, or an adult movie.
soccerguy2 11
23- And you have a rapist in your picture.
violetsweety 26
It's not rape if she likes it? ._.
lol_ironic_life 9
That's definitely not what you deserve to come home to! What shall the FML mob do to such inconsiderate neighbors?! ;)
Redoxx_fml 22
The Wall keeps the White Walkers away.
jisaac09 25
I cut myself everyday that Game of Thrones doesn't air, with then intent to get HBO to hurry up with season two. I don't think it is working.
Redoxx_fml 22
Don't worry like Winter, Season 2 is coming
NuTrees 9
What the duck are you weirdos writing about?
DLBL 23
It is not specified that he/she was serving in the US armed forces overseas.
FMLephant 2
Get a dehumidifier and a lamp.
ninjuh_wingman 29
Its like your own private dungeon.
thegr8tdbate 4
Look on the bright side of things now you have a total dark room which would be perfect for a theater system. Make it THE MAN CAVE and if your neighbors complain tell em to suck it or build you a thicker wall to muffle the noise. As for the mustyness build a vent system that circulates fresh air in and pipes old musty air directly into their heating and a/c vents. Also include an access point on the wall to rip em in when you have those post Mexican food gassy nights so they get to live with the odor. Hahaha!
MrSarcasm 4
Or, be normal and make it a rape dungeon. Duh.
coledude919 0
Or you could adopt some pet dragons
ICATiger 13
How is a window illegally built. Unless you built it while high??
loopsy_fml 14
That's what I was thinking. I'm so confused. An illegally built window? The ****?!
JaneChemi_fml 21
the window was built without a permit.
Snafuusmc 12
I hate living in council homes cause its like their dictators or something. They choose for you! Not you for you sadly :(
Aoifexzx 3
I don't recall OP mentioning they lived in a council house.
diesel1226 0
Det-cord. Make a window in the wall.
perdix 31
If you use a bedroom for sleeping and *******, the darkness should be a plus. The musty smell just means you're a slob.
LiveLaughFML 10
Not really. The musty smell could be from some kind of fungus growing. It takes a dark and moist place for that to happen. (If it's especially a small room, in the summer while he was away, it could have gotten warm very easily) This happened to my Social Studies teacher once :P
peachesncreem 21
OP lives in the Philippines. They only have hot, extremely hot and rainy weather.
LiveLaughFML 10
^ this just proves my point...Baha thank you! :D
thiscrazything 1
Paint a wall mural and add some lights. Oh, and welcome home, hope it gets better from here out.
robertlovespi 3
Well if your window was illegally built, not much you can do with it. I suggest looking into replacing the window with one put in a legal location. Laws exist for a reason. Also people, no where in this post does it say this person was stationed overseas with the military, they could have just been living overseas for the past year.
thegr8tdbate 4
I live out in a rural area there fore I never had to deal with "window placement laws" so could you please explain why it would be necessary to have a law on where you can only put a window in certain places in your own home. Also what right do the neighbors or the "council" have to modify another persons home without them being there. I know some people who live in neighbor hood association areas and am aware of some of the stupidity that goes on there so it would be understandable if he was present and they forced him to remove the window and put it somewhere "legal". But to enter and modify another persons home without their presence or consent kinda sounds like breaking and entering to me. Also it is easy to assume from the wording that op was not aware of the window being illegally built so why should he be at fault for it. And if they had a problem with his window why couldn't they just move it to somewhere "legal" since they had already troubled themselves with remodeling for him that would make more sense than to essentially seal the room off which i'm assuming would be a safety violation of some sort. What if he was in the room taking a nap or something and a fire broke out in the house? How would he get out if there is no window to escape through? Sounds like the neighbors where just being uptight d-bags who should mind their own business. I'll be leaving for the service for a few years here soon and I own my home and I know for a fact that if I come home and my neighbors took it upon themselves to remodel my home for me in because they didn't like the way it looked. I might just have go to the storage unit to get my potato/tennis ball Gatling gun and I'll be doing some "remodeling"on their home when they leave for work. And I even like my neighbors.
docscientist 10
Sometimes, now bear with me, laws are corrupt and exist only to keep those who have power, in power.
DLBL 23
Yes, in Minneapolis, Laws are designed to keep the criminals in power with "Bail reform" in which violent criminals are released with no bond, to offend again. MN = the Pro-Crime State.
bfsd42 20
Use this post to thumb down 32's annoyingly long comment. Or thumb up if you want, but I seriously doubt you want to.
downtime 13
13, They live in the Philippines, bribery gets you everywhere. Just take some extra cash down to the council and get this shit sorted.
thegr8tdbate 4
I'm sorry, are you mad because I made you read? As for the corrupt laws I know they are there and it's a frequent discussion between me and my friends. But window laws. Haha fluff it just give me a beer so I can sit back relax and watch the world burn away.
Isoldael 27
Over here, you need permission for anything that alters the outside appearance of your house. Why? Because they want the neighbourhood to have a "unified" look. As for the wall, I can imagine the neighbours built it on the very edge of their property, probably close to OP's window.
michabailey 8
Well, I know in some places, if there are two adjoining lots, the border can't have windows. Makes sense -- if the owner of the other lot wants to put up a wall/building/whatever on their property, and you knew they might ahead of time, they're in the right.