Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. 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 mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. FML
Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML
Today, after I got home from school I went to my room to find the maid had cleaned it, also to find a bag labeled "trash" it was all the sketches and paintings I had done in art class, which is my major plan for college. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I offered to let my niece and brother stay at my apartment, as my brother was going through a rough divorce and had lost his job. After coming home from work, I found my niece had snapped all of my pencils and had ruined over ten years worth of artwork. FML
Today, I found out that my art project, the one I've been working on for the last two weeks and the first piece I felt really comfortable about turning in, was stolen out of the art cupboard. FML
Today, while sitting on a bench drawing, some guy went up to me, yelled, “YOUR ART SUCKS” and flipped my sketchpad out of my hands. I’d been working on that piece for hours and now there’s a big black pencil streak on it. FML
Today, my dad went through my room while I was out and threw away the "inappropriate pictures" that he found. They're the nudes I've been working on for art class. FML
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girlnamedkris 0
Oh my god. That's rough... Is your mom actually delusional though? Possibly mentally challenged? Did she throw away your drawings as a child? Jesus. You definitely did not deserve this one. Condolences...
tonia_fml 0
daaaaaaamn. i'm really sorry. you never throw away an artists' papers
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teehee520 0
.... That really really sucks.
troyboyd05 0
Replace her birth control with Viagra.
JamesM9794 0
lol and get her a vibrator and give it to her in front of her friends
Technocidal 0
throw out her bills and call them worthless. that'll probably cost her as much as you lost on sketches and writings
glitterme 5
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
ydi for living with your mom
Plasmalaser 11
202- her mom DROPPED BY his house Please learn English
eski2015 22
#210 OP is a guy
Ideastogetback 11
Are you illiterate? It says "dropped by my house"
tonia_fml 0
daaaaaaamn. i'm really sorry. you never throw away an artists' papers
under_estimated 0
That really sucks ass. You should have a portfolio or something to keep that kind of stuff in you know?
ILIEKGIRLS 5
OH SHI-
girlnamedkris 0
Oh my god. That's rough... Is your mom actually delusional though? Possibly mentally challenged? Did she throw away your drawings as a child? Jesus. You definitely did not deserve this one. Condolences...
kariemika 0
Pretty carless of her.
lurch87 18
careless*
rrjr010 0
Your mom has a key to your place? How old are you?
redbluegreen 41
Okay, I read something similar to this, but hey, it does happen. I'm sorry though. Why wouldn't she have known better? If you're an artist, she would know. She could've just sorted it. A great rule to follow is never throw away other people's stuff if they know nothing of it first.
catacombhome 0
Sounds more like sabotage to me.
ashbaby010 0
ouch. um... maybe don't suck so bad next time?