Today, after a few weeks of smuggling a baby caterpillar into work every day just to make sure it ate and stayed alive long enough to turn into a butterfly, it finally did. Before it could fly free, a bird turned it into a snack. 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 first graders released the butterflies we've been raising. The kids were sad that one had died in his cocoon and wouldn't be set free. Turns out that butterfly may have had a better fate: a flock of birds ate half of the others. Immediately after releasing them. In front of the kids. FML
Today, my brother and I found a little bird that couldn't fly. While trying to convince my mom that it couldn't fly so we could keep it, I lightly tossed it in the air and it landed a few feet in front of me. Then my cat grabbed it and ate it. FML
Today, I saved a baby bird from the site I work on. It was the runt and did not have any feathers and was neglected by the mother. I took care of it all day at work and planned on taking it to a wildlife reserve after work. Two minutes away from the reserve, we hit a pothole and I dropped it. It died. FML
Today, I got up and started getting ready for work. As I entered the bathroom, I noticed a moth in the shower. Feeling generous, I caught the moth in a cup and took it to the front porch. I released the moth and watched it fly away… into a giant spider and its web. FML
Today, after we finished making my 6 year-old daughter a net to catch an injured baby bird, when she went out to catch it she witnessed a stray cat catch and eat it. FML
Today, I witnessed the beautiful sight of a tiny baby bird struggling to take flight from its nest. "You can do it," I muttered, which I guess my asswipe of a cat heard as "Quick, go kill that bird and scar me for life, please." FML
Today, I saved a bird from being run over as it lay in the middle of the road. Thinking it had a broken wing or something, I started carrying it home, intending to take it to the vet later. It crapped in my hand and flew away. FML
Today, I found a tiny, featherless baby bird. I knew it was impossible, but I tried to keep it alive through the day. Before I could get it to the wildlife center, it died, and when I got all choked up over it, my mom started laughing at me and saying how "weak" I was. FML
Today, a bird flew into the workshop where I work, gave itself a tour of the place, then promptly pooped on my lunch and left. FML
Today, I spent hours making an elaborate bird feeder for my backyard. It was finally ready, and I proudly hung it up, imagining the birds chirping happily. Instead, a squirrel discovered it within minutes, devoured all the birdseed, and then gave me a smug look before knocking the feeder to the ground. FML
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theslimshadylp 6
The circle of life.
asoptavlo14 6
Shit happens, and technically the butterfly will "fly away, " just in the bird's stomach.
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Comments (175)
toelie 26
It's better to have hatched and lost than never to have hatched at all, or something.
misspulkadot24 17
Agh dammit mother nature.
jenniiienyc 5
Survival of the fittest I suppose:(
andiewithlove 21
I can just see the facial expressions. "Be free!" :,D *bird attack* D:
AMClaire99 2
You just made my day. :) That was hilarious!
WiseGuy79 14
I've seen some funny shit smuggled into the workplace but a baby caterpillar is definitely original!
FMLKitten 15
And I totally didn't understand this reference because I don't watch SpongeBob either! ;-D
molzipan 16
You tried your hardest!
medichick 5
You really need a tripod; they really help with taking photos of yourself for your avatar without resorting to cheap mirror shots. Christ.
DracoSpirita 21
And according to that picture, so do you.
StrangeDuckling 9
Agreed. Also, OP CREATED a life!! (It just didn't live long...)
drunkonduty247 1
I thought I was the only one who thought that.
MistySky 17
Well OP didn't really 'create' a life, she just raised one up.
medichick 5
Please explain to me Molly, you little girl, how my pic says I need a life? Go back to playing with your dolls.
DracoSpirita 21
I'm sixteen. I'm not six years old. I don't play with dolls anymore. You obviously need to get your eyes checked, old woman.
medichick 5
You're still a little girl, meaning not an adult. You shouldn't start stuff with people when you have nothing intelligent or resourceful to say. So again....go do whatever little sixteen year old girls do.
DracoSpirita 21
I am an adult, depending on what culture is being discussed. And so far on this thread, you have contributed nothing intelligent yourself, so you're one to talk.
klovely22 13
26- I guess you haven't seen your own profile pic lately.
medichick 5
That's not what I originally wrote. The admins must have changed it. I didn't say anything about a picture
MolesterStallone 13
You made a bird somewhere very happy. You should be too!
happyrandom 2
...it instantly turned into a butterfly from a caterpillar? What happened to the cocoon stage?
Shrike 24
WTF?! It clearly says that after weeks of being fed so it could cocoon, it hatched. As in it cocooned and later hatched after the weeks of feeding. I feel like I'm the only person who actually has any reading comprehension any more.
Enslaved 38
Great! now you made me want to know the difference between a chrysalis and a cocoon!! :P