Today, I put aside my weekend plans to help my aunt with the extermination guy spraying her new house down to prevent cockroaches. After he left, my aunt asked me to go in and turn off the lights because the fumes were very deadly. If I chose not to, she would tell my mom I did nothing all day. 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 mom is on vacation and I’m taking care of her pets. I also get to clean the entire house. No, she didn’t ask me to do that. It’s just that I had to hold my breath every time I opened the fridge, and there is no surface clean enough to actually touch, so I simply couldn’t help myself. FML
Today, I poured gas around my house for pest control. I can still smell it from inside. FML
Today, after months of my girlfriend crying about cockroaches, I finally called and paid for an exterminator. Now she's furious at me for "making decisions for her" and she keeps pointing out that, since she owns the house, what I did was technically illegal. FML
Today, one of my clients fired me from my cleaning job, all because I had to cancel last minute after I had to drive myself to the hospital with a severe allergic reaction. She screamed at me until I hung up on her. She's my aunt and godmother. FML
Today, my aunt asked me to babysit my cousin. She gave me a warning that he says he's allergic to foods to get out of eating them. When I brought out my homemade cooking, he told me he was allergic, so I made him eat it anyway. Turns out he WAS allergic. FML
Today, despite the fact that I'm really sick, my mom insisted that I come home and help babysit my cousins this weekend. When I got there, everyone else took off to do "errands," leaving me with three hyperactive, howler monkey-like children to deal with. FML
Today, I had a terrible stomach ache and had some pretty bad gas at work. I tried to head down to the basement for a while to allow my coworkers to continue in peace. About an hour after I came back up, my boss called pest control due to the horrible smell that "must be dead rats". FML
Today, I set aside an entire week off to watch my parents' house while they went on vacation. I'd only just got here and they'd barely left when the hospital called. My drunk uncle died from a concussion, so my parents cancelled everything. I feel bad for my aunt, but my boss knows where I live, and my dad's an ass. I'm trapped. FML
Today, my mom decided to have a get together at my house while I was at work. When I came home, she pulled me aside and asked me to pretend to be her maid. FML
Today, due to the high pollen count and despite taking hay fever medicine, I passed out in the bathroom from not being able to breathe. My mother accused me of doing it on purpose to make her late for work. FML
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Top comments
cutycat136 28
I don't think it should matter if you did anything at all of not. You put off something you were going to do to go spend time with your aunt instead. That seems like a pretty good thing all on its own doesn't it?
confusedAsFuck 34
No good deed goes unpunished, right?
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Comments (60)
Britt125 16
I hope you refused. I would hope that your mom wold understand if you explained, but either way if it was me I'd rather get in trouble than risk my health. Your aunt is horrible though.
ke17189 21
I wouldn't worry about that. If your mom chooses to believe your aunt over you its just sad because you know you helped her
Svetlana22 8
Flip the fuses off from the outside..
ohSNAPyall 27
Smart answer!
acp2002 23
At least you know that you did something good.
LEAE_fml 4
I would have done the same thing. Maybe go in and turn off the lights, holding your breath. But tell your mother that the aunt blackmailed you
hondajason72280 10
the fumes won't hurt you no longer than it would have taken you
nider 19
Flip the circuit breaker to kill the lights circuit, well at least that's what I'd do here. Ceiling lights in Australia are usually wired on their own circuit(s).
PsychicBulwark 4
Uh, don't do it, and tell your mom she's a liar? Or if you actually didn't do anything all day, accept the consequences for your actions. Either way, putting a gun in your mouth by walking into those fumes isn't worth putting up with someone being upset for a few hours. Get some perspective ...
snipesrock 9
I guess you did nothing all day
golden23 10
Say you are going thru the back door and don't actually go in and when get back to your aunt fall down like you passed out then enjoy watching your aunt freak out