Today, I called a pest control company to ask them to come over to my place to help get rid of rats. The person on the phone told me to "be a man and stop acting like a girl". I'm a woman. 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, I looked into my sink's garbage disposal for the first time since I moved in two months ago. Apparently, the putrid smell was not the food I've been throwing down it, but instead, a now what appears to be mutilated litter of rats. FML
Today, I saw a long black hair coming out of the drain. Thinking it was my sister's, I called her in and pulled it out for her to see, only to realize I was actually pulling out a long brown roach by the antenna. FML
Today, I wasn't allowed to work from home, despite being ill enough to just take the day off anyway, all so there could be "someone to answer the phone." The phone didn't ring once all day. FML
Today, a female co-worker was struggling with a stack of boxes in her hands. Her pantyhose was falling down and she asked me to help her, so I pulled up her pantyhose. When I looked up, she had a horrified look on her face. She was asking me to help her hold the boxes. FML
Today, as I was changing my sheets, I found a huge spider under my pillow. My 10 year-old sister had to get rid of it for me. FML
Today, I was teasing my cat with a piece of string when suddenly my phone rang. I answered it with one hand and put the string down with the other onto my lap. The beast seized the opportunity to spring, claws out, onto my privates. FML
Today, I was talking with a very attractive coworker outside when a moth flew into my ear. I started screaming and hitting my ear because it was stuck and alive in my ear. I spent the rest of the day at the ER. I'm forever known as The Moth Lady. FML
Today, I was told it was inconvenient for me to take lunch breaks, because someone else has to answer the phones and no one else wants to actually do any work. FML
Today, my family went on vacation. I had to stay home to take care of everyone's animals. I called my mom, who said she was too busy to talk to me. When my sister asked her who was on the phone, she replied, "The dog sitter." FML
Today, while waiting for my mom to pick me up from university, I took out my phone and pretended to talk to someone. I didn't think people still pointed and laughed, but apparently they do when your mom pulls up and shouts, "Stop pretending to talk to someone." FML
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Top comments
Dom_Olivares 12
Wouldn't they want to make some money?
DerrickJames 33
They wanted you to quit pestering them.
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Comments (80)
DrippingSarcasm 20
I don't know what's worse actually, the fact you apparently sound like a man or the fact you have some new roommates. Best of luck on finding someone to help OP! :) I hope though that if we get a follow up, you've already done that... :p
Dave_Davington 34
How professional of them.
ohnowhyme123 15
i take it that company doesn't have much business
krupa1017 18
Rude! Don't waste your time on them. Try another pest control company.
DocBastard 40
It's not sexist, it's just a phrase. You can "be the man" without being a man. I tell that to women all the time. They do always look at me funny, though.
wiccaantje 21
You can 'be a man' without being a man but you can't 'stop acting like a girl' if you are a woman.
mycatsaysmeow 7
It's a sexist phrase. "Man up and stop acting like a girl" implies that women are weak.
Thebloodletting 3
And then you told him "not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!"
kmccain 27
What? It's rats not wolves or pigs.
Thebloodletting 3
Hair of my chinny chin chin... Hairy chin. You're a bit slow there...
ilovefall10 21
That's just stupid, they lost money by doing that. Spread the word, and do business elsewhere.
maxhhh 18
The person on the phone needs pest control for her personality. Hahaha
JD1147 27
Ha ha.. Oh, mercy ....
Goblin182 27
I wonder if the owner of the company know this person is running customers away.
organolithium_fml 9
Way to make a business run...