Today, at work, the shopping carts have coin locks on them so people put them back or don't go stealing them. A lady couldn't find a coin, so I unlocked one with my key and said to her, "It doesn't look like you will run off and steal it" as a joke. She replied, "I can't run darling, I have an artificial leg." 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, at work at a store, I was sitting on the floor stocking a bottom shelf. A woman in a motorized cart did not see me, and ran over my hand. When I alerted her about what she had done she laughed. FML
Today, while at work, a woman left her credit card at my register. I tried to return it before she left. Seeing her getting into her car, I jogged after her and yelled, "Wait." She ran over my foot. FML
Today, my lazy, obese mother took the last motor cart at the grocery store. My leg is in a cast. She told me to "use the shopping cart to help with the limp" as she rolled away. FML
Today, a lady I know gave my 3 year-old daughter a little coin purse, saying, "Your mum can put some money in that for you." My daughter responded, "But mummy has no money." I would have laughed, had it not been spot on. FML
Today, while at the mall, a lady dropped her credit card while in line to buy something. I came over, picked it up and gave it to her just for her to shove it in my hand and scream, "She's stealing my wallet! My wallet!" The police came. FML
Today, I was pretending to be a mom with my friends, and I was joking how I bought them candy and that it cost me an arm and a leg, only to realize that the cashier only had one arm. FML
Today, while shopping, an old man came up to me and told me I should be ashamed for walking around fake limping, and that it's horrible to mock people who actually limp from serious injuries. I wasn't faking, I was born without my right leg and I was getting used to my new prosthetic one. FML
Today, a co-worker and I walked out of our office at the same time. He got in his car, which was parked right out front. I asked him what I had to do to get a sweet parking spot like that. He rolled up his pant leg and show me his prosthesis. He was in the handicapped spot. FML
Today, my aunt and I went shopping. When we got to the store, she said she forgot her wallet, and I told her I would buy some things for her. When we were at the checkout, I was a dollar short. She said, "Oh, I'll get it!" and pulled out her wallet. FML
Today, I was asked to order a new lockable cash tin for work. When my boss returned to ask which one I'd selected, I said, "An 8-inch black one". Her giggle said it all. FML
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dietcoke09 25
I always thought my dad had two legs growing up and thought nothing of it. It was when I was 13 and went to the beach with him and he took it off I was like WTF! Point of the story, some people who have prosthetics usually go unnoticed until they say something or show you. I'm sure it was embarrassing though!
DarkSerebii 11
Some artificial legs look almost real, or they're just concealed well. It's not like you knew, OP!
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DarkSerebii 11
Some artificial legs look almost real, or they're just concealed well. It's not like you knew, OP!
piker117 11
Not to mention that you can run with lots of the newer artificial legs
Eror_No_Name 15
There is also the fact that it is a figure of speech.
dakid87 10
You had good attention. Don't feel bad
DeadxManxWalking 27
intention*?
laden_swallow09 35
Dictionaries are your friends.
moodyreallyrocks 27
That was very nice of you OP..
latenerd 11
Agreed, that was a nice thing to do - and it doesn't sound like you offended her, there was probably no way to tell the leg was artificial.
dietcoke09 25
I always thought my dad had two legs growing up and thought nothing of it. It was when I was 13 and went to the beach with him and he took it off I was like WTF! Point of the story, some people who have prosthetics usually go unnoticed until they say something or show you. I'm sure it was embarrassing though!
sureshadow 23
Now this I can't get. How does your own father go 13 years without him mentioning it or you noticing it?
dietcoke09 25
He says he's told me before but I never remembered. I also never saw my dad because my mother and father divorced while I was young. When we went to the beach it was my birthday. I live in NC and my dad lived in CA so we weren't ever close, still aren't. Not that I have to explain myself.
feven 32
That's hilarious. I don't even know how'd I react if my dad casually just took his leg off one day.
Gennocent 17
You never saw your Dad's leg until you were 13? 0_o My grandpa had a prosthetic leg so I grew up not thinking it was all that surprising. It got weird when I started inviting friends to his house, and didn't think to warn them, because I was so used to it myself. They were always shocked to see he only had one leg. (His prosthetic was uncomfortable and he took it off when he got home... like taking your bra off at the end of a long day. )
dietcoke09 25
Read the above comment. I'm tired of the messages asking the same thing. Yes, I never saw my dads artificial leg until I was 13.
nix1993 41
You made a comment that included a personal anecdote, and its a really odd situation. Of course people are going to be surprised, you're lucky on this site that everyone's reactions are positive, there's really no need to be so rude to the people responding...
wow2mylife 25
I really don't see the problem
laden_swallow09 35
Yeah! It didn't sound like she was offended or otherwise hurt. If anything, it's an opportunity to make a remark on the incredible craftsmanship of her prosthesis.
MrEpicSqueaky101 18
The fact she replied like that seems she knew you didnt know or just really doesnt care about it too much. I think you're ok OP. Most people might have made the same mistake.
Zeenaboo 4
I don't think you should worry. If it bothers her then she wouldn't have brought it up.
naviajack626 16
Doesn't sound like she took it badly, sooo what's the big deal?
fakedsincerity 32
She sounds like she has a good sense of humour to joke about her leg with strangers. (:
kangx1 28
There's a mistake in this FML that makes me cringe. You used stealing instead of steal
False_Stupidity 42
Stealing is a valid word and was correctly used as a verb. E.g. We need to stop Joe from stealing those pencils. Using steal just doesn't work.
kangx1 28
Actually in the wording of the FML steal would be correct. After all it was correct from stealing to steal
kangx1 28
It said that "You wouldn't run off and stealing it" explain how on Gods green earth is that correct grammar
jforren 14
Actually that's not what OP said. Maybe you should read it again.
kangx1 28
As I stated above the FML was corrected. Maybe you should read my comment again
pastyprincess 7
you really should read OP's post again, they say steal in the spot you're talking about, and stealing in the beginning. don't be butt-hurt over being corrected.