Today, 50,000 copies of the new edition of the town's phone book came out. I manage a pizza place and bought a full menu ad. Apparently the ad designer got confused, as they placed my cell phone number in huge bold letters at the bottom of the ad instead of the store's phone number. 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've gotten the most calls of my life. Turns out the idiot who changed the sign on my local Pizza Hut put up the wrong phone number. My phone number. I've already received 16 calls. FML
Today, after all of the business cards for the car dealership that I work for were printed, the phone number was wrong, and the lady got so pissed about getting so many calls that she told them that they had won a free car. I had to tell dozens of ecstatic customers that they hadn't. FML
Today, I realized after sending out countless copies of my resume to companies, I failed to add my phone number on it. FML
Today, I noticed that all 200 remaining business cards out of the 500 that I had made have the wrong phone number on them. FML
Today, someone posted online a listing for a bicycle for sale, and accidentally put my phone number instead of their own. I have received more calls in one day than I have from friends and family in a week. FML
Today, I needed new business cards so I went to design and print some. After I designed, I was happy with them and printed off 100 copies. I live at a place called Canal Rocks. I forgot the 'C'. I now have 76 business cards which say 'anal rocks.' I already distributed 24. FML
Today, after handing out several résumés for several jobs, I realized that I forgot to add my phone number to them. FML
Today, I looked through my girlfriend's phone book and saw two entries with my name. One had "(cute)" attached to it. I checked to see if it was my number. It wasn't. FML
Today, the magazine that had my ad in it came out. There’s never been an ad for my niche before. But there was a bigger, better ad for exactly the same thing before mine. Yet another failed business idea for me. FML
Today, my friend put my phone number on Craigslist. I still can't find the ad, but obviously everyone else can because I still haven't stopped receiving naked pictures. FML
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Top comments
MattBC97 4
Theres a way to switch the number from that to your pizza places phone and then get a completely new cell number. Just call your phone companies.
TomasT 0
Good advertising for free. Just use the cell for the company and get a new cell... And of course, refuse to pay the ad. Win-win-win.
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Comments (78)
rider45 0
you must be getting a lot of calls.
KBruce317 0
That's why Nebraska is better than Iowa ...... .> ^.^ Actually that's a lie... Nebraska is still better than Iowa... just not for that reason.
fmlissoooooofked 0
never been to either dont plan to
FyourLIFEdotCOM8 0
you should tell them. it probably will be their fault so then it would be free.
honeybeex3 0
HAHA! FAIL. YDI xD But thanks for making my day. Thats the stupidest shit I've ever heard xDDD
fiaspice_fml 1
YDI for not proofing the ad.
element_ae 0
not cool... hahahahahaha!!!
einauglein 0
Awww that sucks! That is a MAJOR FYL!
lisatheshopper 0
it's okay. no one reads phone books anyways
U_idiot 1
That sucks, but either you or the rep did not give clear enough instructions in the first place, then didn't proof the ad beforehand. let me guess... you booked the ad 5 min. before going to press and didn't want to bother looking over it. YDI
fishertruck 0
Op..you deserve it.Most places publish exactly what you give them,especially when it comes to advertising a personal ad because it is your job to proofread your design,and make changes before it is printed.Obviously the phonebook company has little reason to assume any type of mistakes were made since you handed it in and it is there job to print it exactly "how you wanted it." I do feel bad for you though,hope you have a decent plan for your cell.