Today, I was looking forward to my only day to sleep-in this month while I'm balancing school and work. I was rudely awakened at 6 am by my sister and her friend trying to make pancakes, burning them, and setting off the fire alarm in my house for half an hour. FML
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Today, after I worked 15 hours yesterday, coming home at 1 a.m. thinking I could sleep in because my kids have no school, I was woken up at 7 a.m. because they wanted pancakes. FML
Today, it's my birthday. My children decided to make me "breakfast in bed", only to end up setting the kitchen on fire. FML
Today, my brother woke me up by trying to light my bed on fire. FML
Today, I decided to make pancakes from scratch. I poured the batter in my Perfect Pancake pan. Then I told my brother who was watching, "This is so easy. Just watch." I burned 15 pancakes, including the one I dropped on the burner, which lit on fire, causing the alarm to go off. FML
Today, my friends thought it'd be funny to hold lighters under the smoke alarms while I was sleeping. FML
Today, I was sleeping in my apartment when I woke up to the smell of smoke. Alarmed, I ran out to the kitchen to find my roommates trying to put out a fire on the stove. As soon as they saw me, they ran for it, informing me that it was my problem now. They used my good frying pan. FML
Today, I awoke at 5am to the smell of smoke and the sound of sirens. It seems the whole Santa Monica Fire Department had made it outside our apartment complex. We had to wake up every single person on our floor. What for? An old lady burned a muffin. FML
Today, I woke up to the fire department at my house. Why? My brother called 911 thinking there was a fire after turning the heat on for the first time all winter. FML
Today, while trying to sleep after a night shift, workers came to hook up city sewage service, firing up drills and shouting. An hour later, my child woke me up to tattle on her sister. Just as I was drifting to sleep yet again, the smoke alarm battery started chirping. I give up. FML
Today, I found out my little sister is a pyromaniac. She set my bed on fire. FML
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TogeBara 12
seem like an accident...
Drifting 21
That truly sucks OP....I know the feeling of losing that one chance of sleeping in....
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worldclassrager 41
I think telling them your going to sleep a bit longer would help...
Cazz91 21
Its the thought that counts. Perhaps your sister and her friend wanted to make you some pancakes as well but failed horribly while making them. I am sure they didn't mean to wake you up with an awful smell in the house and the annoying alarm.
KidTajic 13
Take a broom, break the fire alarm, and go back to sleep. ;)
DJ_Lyons 15
That sucks... Go back to sleep?
RoseFox0029 22
That wasn't really rude... I mean, it sucks for you, but it's not like they woke you up on purpose. Accidents happen.
tiarnatargaryen 23
In this context, 'rude' means unexpected, unpleasant and rough. Not rude as in impolite.
skyeyez9 25
I used to work 12hr shifts (night shift) which usually turned into 14hrs (boss liled to piss around and not release us on time) and my douchebag of a boss would call me nearly every ******* day in the middle of my sleep saying "you need to come into work asap! You have 20 mins..etc I get in there all he said was "oh, why are you here? Go home. Or oh, you have to be at work tonight, get some rest." ******* hated him! I am glad he finally got fired. So sleeping in and uninterrupted sleep was a luxury I can relate to.
SWeatHeart11_fml 7
I don't feel like this is an FML after the half u could go back to sleep it's not like ur sister made it her mission to not let you sleep
aj9090 9
Ah, I know how you feel. I value my sleep as well. I usually tell my family the night before if I'm planning to sleep in. They try to not be as loud as usual in the mornings :)
ginawater19 13
That shit happens to me all the time. The one day I get ill like wake up wide awake at 7am and not be able to fall back asleep. Gotta be karma
bestintheworld15 2
That does suck! I have that one day myself and I couldn't imagine that happening