Today, I found out that the double spacing format in an essay refers to the space between each line, not the words. I've been pressing the space bar twice between each word all through high school and halfway through college. 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, my mom asked me why MS Word keeps underlining some words. After I tried to convince her that you're supposed to put a space after commas, she started yelling at me for making her look stupid. I can never win. FML
Today, I realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML
Today, I received a terrible grade for an essay I worked really hard on. I had two friends, one being an English major, check it over. However, apparently I "clearly didn't use spellcheck" on this essay just like the last one I submitted to her. FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, people’s spelling has gotten so bad that I do a double take whenever I see “its” used in the place it’s actually supposed to go. FML
Today, my teacher's comments on my essay read, "I know it's college, but you use a lot of unnecessary words with a lot of syllables." He basically scolded me for having a complex vocabulary. I go to an accredited state university. Nothing says "America" like under-achieving professors. FML
Today, I was writing my rough draft of an essay, and I forgot how to spell a word. I waited for auto correct to help. I was writing on paper. FML
Today, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. FML
Today, I found out that my son thinks it's acceptable to use words like "on fleek" in high school level essays. FML
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TJD28 3
your a really stupid person
MrLefty 8
*You're Unless my sarcasm detector is missing something.
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Comments (131)
ckr911 5
How could you not know that? If someone told me to double space an essay in 3rd grade I could do it.
memily63 12
You only would have known what it meant IF your teachers had explained it to you. Nobody just right off the bat knows what double spacing is. Either OP has had a horrible education or he/she was told and was just too stupid to remember.
overthelimit 3
No one told me that, ever. It sure sounds like you should be hitting the space bar twice, because in reality, you would use the enter key to skip a line. So I guess I just learned something from this FML.
decidedlyvague 11
I have tigers blood and Adontis DNA, and no weaknesses. I came out of the womb knowing the cure for cancer, and how to solve world hunger, but I'm too much of a jackass to save the world. Instead I genetically mutated myself to turn myself into a puppy, because I liked the way the wind feels on my ears. I invented Microsoft and the Internet, but I made sure that double spacing was next to impossible unless it was explained, because anyone can press the space bar twice and make a fool of themselves. I'm just glad it worked for several years on this pathetic mortal.
batfan5683 6
Why...
upyourzlolz 11
Woah! OP also thought that the delete key erased all the data!
daysleeper666 1
He called customer service to ask where the any key was. :)
catharsis5 9
none of your teachers told you?
SamanthaRose143 6
I've done that! But I only did it for one project until someone told me.
GennaSaysFYL 3
20- Cool story, please tell us more
Rj93 8
Surely your English teacher/tutor/professor would have explained that at some point? Or perhaps you could have realised there was something odd with what you were doing? Still though, got to admire your dedication to making sure there were two spaces between each word for all those years.
ahouno17 0
Smhd..lol it's alright
ifeelya 5
and they passed you? omgosh.
shazza26 1
Your school is stupid for not teaching you that!
xXshadowrollerXx 6
How could you be so stupid? You could have just googled it.
I_iz_B_a_troll 24
I'm surprised it took 27 comments for someone to do this :O
LilaBear 2
Why would you google something if you already know what it means? I realise OP had the wrong definition of 'double spacing', but he didn't know that. So he thought he knew what 'double spacing' meant so why would he google it?