Today, I finished painting my living room. I had to leave the house in a rush. When I got home, I found smears of paint all around and the carpet crusted with paint that had dried. My cat had rubbed up against the walls and tracked it around. 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, I finished a painting I'd spent 3 weeks working on for an exhibition. When I came back from lunch, my cat was perched above it on my desk. He looked at me, then down at the painting, then jumped down onto it. He slipped and smeared the wet paint everywhere, ruining the whole thing. FML
Today, I painted my daughter's bedroom. When I wasn't paying attention, the cat walked through the paint tray. There are now Barney purple paw prints all over the house. FML
Today, while I was painting, my little nephew came in and started watching me. I left to clean my brushes. When I came back into the room, my nephew had spilled paint all over the carpet making a rainbow. It took me 5 hours to clean it up. FML
Today, I spent the afternoon painting my bedroom and was really pleased with how it turned out. When I moved the furniture back, I noticed a large patch behind the wardrobe I'd missed. The paint shop had closed, and I had no idea which shade I'd used. FML
Today, I was quite happily glossing my new bathroom door, when my useless, alcoholic, housemate came rolling in, knocked the paint over, stood in it, and without realising, walked it all the way down the stairs. I had just had a brand new carpet fitted. FML
Today, I was painting my bedroom walls, when I was struck with an uncontrollable bout of diarrhea. I had to watch helplessly from the en-suite bathroom as my 2 year old daughter painted a lovely picture for me, all over my new $500 sofa. FML
Today, I painted my daughter's room with the new paint we bought. It's an oil-based paint which hides all blemishes on the wall, but apparently makes me sick. I'm now throwing up everywhere, but at least the room looks good. FML
Today, I babysat my niece and thought a quick shower would be fine. I left her watching cartoons with a blanket and returned to find she’d used washable paints on the carpet and her hands, leaving tiny colorful footprints to the couch. Her proud smile made me forgive the mess, but I spent the evening scrubbing. FML
Today, my husband and I cleaned our house. We swept, mopped, vacuumed, dusted, and scrubbed. We moved the furniture and got in the cracks. We were extremely thorough. At 9 p.m., our cat had diarrhea and he got it all over himself. He didn't know what to do, so he ran through the house, spraying poop everywhere. FML
Today, after three weeks of hard work, I finally finished painting my room. Apparently my 6-year-old brother thought I wasn't done and that he should help me out. I now have little red handprints all over my white walls. FML
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Hikarishimizu 13
YDI for leaving your cat in the living room with all the paint fumes, which could have killed it. F the cats life, not yours. He/she probably rubbed up against the walls for revenge.
mattman1994 0
hey can I borrow your cat? I need some help painting my room on Tuesday
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imhowie 2
YDI because cats are horrible pets. Actually, FYL for having an animal that doesn't like people and ***** in your house, making it stink of shit all the time. That's the real FML here IMO.
hate_spoons 0
it smeels like my cat *******
Gen2105 0
YDI for being silly - everyone knows that if you have pets and are painting a room, you need to block off this room from said pets! They're just curious and will think it's fun without realizing that they're destroying your house!
SpaceMannn 0
i sure hope the cat is an artist and actually made your house look beautiful, if not sucks for you.
NicciJ87 10
cats are jerks
worldclassrager 41
Silly cat...I think you now know to close off the room you are painting so this doesn't happen again...but being in a rush I can understand it slipped your mind...
purecountry119 2
put the cat outside. otherwise stuff like this could happen again
myanichole 22
The amount of people suggesting to beat the cat makes me so sad I literally wanna cry
shellwake 9
Awwww.. Poor silly little kitty. FML for kitty because he didn't know that would happen & probably walked around with paint on him for hours. He would have wanted to groom until he had a taste of paint and poor little kitty's bad day probably only got worse by ending with a dip in the bathtub.