Today, it's been a few weeks since I took up gardening to relax, caring for my plants, and they finally started blooming. Excitedly, I posted a picture online, only to have a friend tell me that my "beautiful flowers" are actually weeds. Apparently, I have a talent for cultivating the unwanted. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, three weeks after I finally tried my hand at gardening by planting a bunch of herbs and was so proud of my work, I found out that I had actually been watering weeds this whole time. My herbs were actually the things I was trying to eliminate. FML
Today, I spent the afternoon transplanting a whole bunch of corn seedlings that sprouted, even turning over the new soil with compost and fertiliser. While watering them in, I realised they're actually all just weeds. FML
Today, I learned that the $30 plant that I've been tediously tending to and extremely proud of for thriving is actually just a subspecies of ragweed. FML
Today, at my job of two months, I'd taken it upon myself to water the plants around the office every day since they all looked a little sad. My boss then asked why so many of the fake plants were getting mouldy. My co-workers had watched me water plastic plants for two months and nobody bothered to tell me. FML
Today, I sent the girl I like flowers, only to have her later post a picture of them online, saying, "Ha! When losers send you flowers." FML
Today, after my neighbor asked me to water her plants while she was away, and I carefully followed her instructions for 6 days, she came home. She stared at the living room and asked why I'd watered the fake plants but forgotten the real ones on the balcony. FML
Today, armed with enthusiasm and a trowel, I ventured into my yard to plant some flowers. Not even five minutes later, I managed to dig up the cable line, cutting off not only my TV but the entire building's internet. The only thing that's blooming now is my reputation as the least popular neighbor. FML
Today, after I agreed to water my friend's plants while she was on vacation, she'd given me very specific instructions for each one, so I made a schedule and followed it carefully. When she came home, she stared at the plants and asked why her cactus was sitting in a bowl of water. I'd read the wrong line on the schedule all week. FML
Today, our neighbors have the most beautiful garden, with hundreds of crocuses in spring. Actually, that was our former neighbors. The new owners have since dug up all the flower bulbs, thrown them out, and replaced them with some lovely decorations made of old car tires. FML
Today, I was rollerblading in the university gardens and taking pictures. A worker started to yell at me, and I told him that I had perfect control and could stay on the sidewalk. As I turned to skate away, I faceplanted into a bed of prized rare flowers. FML
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Top comments
poopface82 25
Weeds? Weeds are in the eye of the beholder. I mean, who decided tulips were so great?
idragosani 17
Flowers are flowers. You think bees care?
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poopface82 25
Weeds? Weeds are in the eye of the beholder. I mean, who decided tulips were so great?
Yudith 28
Don't worry; there are people out there who sell the same weeds in paper baggies under the name "garden prairie mix" or "assorted wild flowers". Good luck with your Madagascar weed and its pretty pink flowers!
idragosani 17
Flowers are flowers. You think bees care?
Crowned Sataness 12
if you find them pretty, cultivate them. the only difference between a dandelion and a tulip is what society says
Haldu 50
Hey, if those plants are the ones who make you happy and relax, keep gardening them. There is no such thing as weed in Nature anyway, any plant has an utility in the ecosystem where it naturally grows. This is a notion made for human needs. And so, if those ones fulfill your need to be relaxed, they are not weed.
Thaylok 17
Only the green grass lawn mafia calls them weeds. If you are pleased with your investment I. time to grow them, then you are a success. Every plant fills a niche/need. Just because it doesn't fit their narrow-minded monoculture ideology does not mean it us unwanted or unneeded.
core01 30
i grow weeds on purpose, and they're beautiful.