Today, at work, my boss and I went upstairs to storage. We got in the elevator, I pressed the second floor button, and it didn't move so I repeatedly pressed the button. It wasn't until the fifth press that I realized we were already on the second floor. She thought I was an idiot. 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, at work I got in an elevator to go upstairs. It wasn't until the doors opened minutes later and people stepped in that I realized I had zoned out and forgot to press the button for the floor I needed. I then promptly exited the elevator and waited for the next elevator to go up in. FML
Today, I sat on an elevator for 10 minutes thinking I was stuck. After waiting awhile I looked at the screen to see what floor I was stuck on, only to realize I hadn't pressed a button so I had just stayed on the ground floor. FML
Today, I was in a big crowded elevator and had to struggle tried to press the button for my floor because no one close to the buttons bothered to ask me which floor I was going to. Instead, I hit the emergency stop button. The elevator stopped between floors for 20 minutes. Everyone stared at me like I was a movie villain. FML
Today, I got in the elevator with my dog and pressed the button for my floor. Instead of going up, it dropped two floors and opened up to a random basement room filled with nothing but mannequins, and wouldn't go back up. I had to fumble our way to the stairs. FML
Today, I worked up my courage and took an elevator for the first time in my life. Unfortunately, it was also my first time getting trapped for several hours in an elevator. FML
Today, my building's elevators were temporarily out of service. I climbed up 17 flights of stairs only to realize I left my keys downstairs. After the painful climb back up, the elevator lights came on. FML
Today, I went into a shop, not really completely awake. To get to the upper floor, I took the escalator... in the wrong direction. After about 30 seconds (which seemed like hours) trying to climb up the wrong way, my brain started working and by that time I already had a few amused spectators watching me. FML
Today, while in the elevator with the girl from my office that I've been crushing on, but never spoken to, I said "aren't elevators awkward?" After a long silence, she got off three floors before our office. FML
Today, as I got into an elevator, I spotted a little old lady hobbling desperately to get on. I frantically tapped on the 'door open' button but the doors closed. I got dirty looks from the people in the lift, only then did I realise I had frantically tapped the 'door close' button instead. FML
Today, I saw a woman struggling to hold the elevator. Trying to be helpful, I jumped forward and pressed the “close doors” button, thinking it was “open doors.” The doors shut right in her face. I had to awkwardly ride up ten floors in silence with three witnesses. FML
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kenjiisown 1
You are an idiot.
Lucidium 0
Please don't quote Outkast...
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Comments (75)
yuhimjesus 0
I'd agree.
denvan 0
Your name should be next to idiot in the dictionary.
jinxthejinx 0
denvan, I like your bookshelf.
sourgirl101 29
It'll take more than a comma and a period for "me" to understand it.(:
Dragons_corner 6
she could be a cat but I second it any ways.
iphonelover10 0
lol lol lol good 1 #1
mrahhhhh 21
Maybe she thinks you're a good kind of idiot, like the "idiot" in the Dostoyevsky novel "The Idiot". Better hope your boss loves Russian literature!
SeasonedLemur 5
Hahahaha good one!!
chetchatter 5
lmao dumbass
Namenlos_fml 20
DUMBASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tygerarmy 35
So, your mind was someplace else. You thought you were already on your way back to the 2nd floor from wherever. Get more sleep and stop stressin' the little things.
iheartglasses 0
I've made the same mistake before but... 5 times pressing the same button ? Either you really are an idiot or you tried to play up a simple mistake to turn it into an FML.
ImaginaryFoe 1
That's what I thought, too. Two pushes might be understandable if you are questioning whether you pushed it all the way the first time. Five is the sign of an impatient child or a ruh-tard. BTW, OP, how do you know what she thought? Are you making a big deal out of nothing?