Today, I was on the elevator at work. As it descended, a roach started scurrying about around my feet. I freaked out and started screaming, hitting the panic button without thinking. Now I'm facing a hefty fine for using the panic button when there wasn't a "real" emergency. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I accidentally pressed the panic button under the register at work. I didn't even know we had a panic button until the cops showed up. FML
Today, I was fined because my son pushed the alarm button in the elevator. Why? There was a spider in there. FML
Today, I was in a big crowded elevator and had to struggle tried to press the button for my floor because no one close to the buttons bothered to ask me which floor I was going to. Instead, I hit the emergency stop button. The elevator stopped between floors for 20 minutes. Everyone stared at me like I was a movie villain. FML
Today, I found a mysterious button under my desk at work and pressed it out of curiosity. It was the emergency panic alarm. Within five minutes, security, my manager, and then two confused police officers were asking if I was OK. I just wanted to know what the button did. FML
Today, I got stuck in my building's elevator. I pushed the emergency button, which made a ringing noise. After about half an hour, I heard someone yell, "Stop pushing that button, my kids are sleeping." FML
Today, at work I got in an elevator to go upstairs. It wasn't until the doors opened minutes later and people stepped in that I realized I had zoned out and forgot to press the button for the floor I needed. I then promptly exited the elevator and waited for the next elevator to go up in. FML
Today, the workplace evacuation bell sounded. Out of panic after the recent earthquake, I ran down 21 flights of stairs, only to find out it was a false alarm. My legs are on fire, and I can barely walk. FML
Today, I sneaked out of work early. I tripped over my own feet while walking up to my car. As I fell, I managed to hit the panic button on my car keys, setting off my car alarm while I lay flat on the ground in the parking lot. FML
Today, I was late for work and sprinted to catch the elevator. I made it just in time, only to realize I was in the elevator alone and had just dramatically dived into it for no reason. FML
Today, as I got into an elevator, I spotted a little old lady hobbling desperately to get on. I frantically tapped on the 'door open' button but the doors closed. I got dirty looks from the people in the lift, only then did I realise I had frantically tapped the 'door close' button instead. FML
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Iamnotmyself 17
A roach! OMG. ok I got this, I'll press the panic button instead of stepping on it!
Iamnotmyself 17
You owned yourself bro!
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Comments (174)
borkchop1992 15
and who said people arent idiots
sunlovinmama 1
you should know you have to look at one in the mirror everyday
Glitterhinoceros 14
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iloveWAR 0
Talk about overreacting.
Cynical_in_SK 6
Wow...you people aren't very sympathetic. I admit hitting the panic button might have been a bit of an overreaction. That having been said...roaches are very large, disgusting and nasty looking bugs. I bet you all would have freaked out too...especially if you weren't expecting it!
iloveWAR 0
Just no..
Iknoweverything 29
actually, I would have never gotten on the elevator in the first place. It's not like they are hard to see in an enclosed space with nowhere to hide.
ADub55 0
I would have stepped on it. Problem solved.
ReynshineCutting 10
If it's in one of the corners on the side where the door is you wouldn't see it until you were in the elevator...
dreamering 16
Yeah, roaches is the nickname for crocodile.
RainbowHeadache 2
Actually, no. I had a big spider crawl up my foot & not a single **** was given that day. Cockroaches have to go places too, man. Maybe he had an important business meeting or was going home to get him some of his wife's fine cockroach pussy.
fthku 13
Sympathetic to what, exactly? Unless OP has a phobia, which is doubtful as she would almost definitely mention that in the FML, she overreacted. If she wants to flail around in the elevator and scream that's her business, but hit the panic button?
a_nutritionist 10
im not very sympathetic of someone who highlights the word "real" in "real emergency" as though they legitimately believe it was a real emergency. oh and who acts like a child when they see a cockroach?
steveakafranxy 7
#127 "9-1-1 What's your emergency?" "There's a roach in my elevator!" "A ROACH!?!! We're sending the SWAT team."
DrTexas 0
Dr. Texas says: "You just got owned by a roach!"
NomadicFlo 4
Lol I think the roach was more in need of a panic button.
mrahhhhh 21
Unless it was a ******* Radroach, then that ain't a ******* emergency.
lajaynay 15
Oh Fallout.. those beasts sure got annoying.
hatepineapple 14
Was it an albino roach? Those are fantastic.
chelseaaababyyy 17
roaches are disgusting but that was a huge over reaction.
Schnyduh 4
them damn roaches