Today, my sink seemed to be filling up with dirty water. Concerned, I turned on the garbage disposal and plunged away. With no change in the water levels, I called a plumber. He reached in, pulled out the drain plug, and give me his bill while chuckling to himself. 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, I tried to save money by fixing a leaky sink myself. Fifteen minutes and three tools later, I had flooded under-sink cabinets and a new appreciation for plumbers. My landlord arrived with a wrench and a look that said ‘you’ll learn.’ I learned to call professionals first. FML
Today, my landlord refused to send a plumber over to unclog the sink. Now he wants me to pay for water damages because he didn't call a plumber sooner. FML
Today, I tried to fix a leaking pipe under the sink. I watched a YouTube tutorial and was feeling confident that I could get the job done. Two hours later, half of the kitchen was practically flooded because I forgot to cut the water off, and scrambled to actually find the main valve, then I had to call an emergency plumber, who showed up, laughed, and fixed it in five minutes. FML
Today, my sump pump stopped working so I called a plumber to fix it. It took two seconds for him to simply plug it back in. Cost me $75 for the call. FML
Today, I was using the toilet at a friend's house when the toilet made a strange gurgling noise. Thinking it was just old plumbing, I flushed. The water started rising... and rising. Before I knew it, water, and whatever was in the toilet, began overflowing and flooding the bathroom. I had to go ask for help, and a mop. FML
Today, we had to turn the water off due to a massive leak in the kitchen sink that the plumber was currently fixing. I managed to wait two hours before my uncooperative digestive tract said it couldn't wait any longer and I had to take a mega dump in the bathroom. I couldn't flush the toilet or wash my hands. FML
Today, I woke up to a fog. Literally. A pipe burst in my apartment and scalding water was everywhere. To make matters worse, when I called maintenance he told me he'd come by later, hung up on me, and turned his phone off. He did eventually show up, but it was 5 hours later, well after I'd paid a plumber $200. FML
Today, I was draining the water from my fishbowl out into the kitchen sink. The fish was still in it and decided to go with the flow, literally, right into the garburator. I was too scared to stick my hand down there to save it; instead I panicked and turned the garburator on. FML
Today, I had to call a plumber out, because my idiot daughter clogged the pipes while trying to flush a hamburger down the toilet. FML
Today, I absent-mindedly poured the putrid water from the sink’s air trap into the sink that I'd just removed the air trap out of, and flooded the cupboard I then had to crawl into. FML
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Top comments
kwyk 23
Don't worry, plumbers are used to all sorts of crap.
SharnaaaBanana 22
Haha wow. We all do stupid things from time to time :)
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Comments (50)
buddy51 23
Probably broke your garbage disposal in the process so the plumbers coming back and you're entertaining him twice!
SAgirl 23
The bill is for making him drive all the way to you.
FightMyLiger 19
Ohhhh.....thanks.
InhumanX 7
I'm pretty sure I've heard a blonde joke that went something like that.
FightMyLiger 19
That's plumb dumb.
ThatPlankton 15
How does one not notice a plug when one is using a plunger on said hole?
Silver_89 9
The FML says the sink was full of dirty water so OP couldn't see the drain and probably just put the plunger where they thought the drain was.
Enslaved 38
This facepalm moment is up there alone with calling the repairman when your refrigerator stopped working-- only to find out it's because it's not plugged in. :P
alycion 39
We have all Ben there, or will have our moment if we haven't already. I once had my mother in law call because her sound wasn't working on her computer. After asking and her assuring me that the speakers were plugged in and on, I went into trouble shooting mode only to hear my father in law ask her about 10 minutes later why the speakers weren't plugged in.
Zen_Mei 17
We all have our moments
stogeist 5
really??? never checked the drain first to see if something was in the way?
chrisstachon 30
When people call Americans dumb they're talking about people like you.