Today, I came home from work to find my kids playing Frisbee with my collection of rare, valuable vinyl records. The term "smash hit record" took on a whole new meaning. 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 got home and found my kids playing with my coin collection. My wife told me to stop being grouchy because it’s not like they’re silver and gold. No, but they were all mint condition, some of them very rare, and every scratch the kids just put on them has halved their value or worse. FML
Today, I learned a valuable lesson, never leave your "Let It Be" album, which you paid $489 for on eBay out on your desk. My brother also learned something, old records make for very breakable, one use frisbees. FML
Today, the kids that live down the street had a yard sale in my yard while I wasn’t home. They sold a bunch of my daughter's toys, which I now have to replace. FML
Today, I came back from a holiday and the friend who'd been looking after my cats returned my spare key. When I wanted to put some relaxing music on, I noticed that he'd switched most of my CDs around in their cases. I have over a thousand of them. Very funny, thanks. FML
Today, I asked my father if I could have my grandfather's old vinyls, record player, and vintage tube radio. He told me he threw those out years ago because, "Who listens to that crap anymore, now that we have mp3s?" FML
Today, I came home to find that my mother had sold all my valuable collector coins for cheap at a local shady pawn shop to buy herself a TV. The coins in question were worth enough to start a business. FML
Today, I got home from work to find my wife asleep in her easy chair with my two year old son asleep in a pile of torn-up paper. I soon found out it was my 1960s collection of a Superman comic book series that I inherited from my dad. It was worth well over $2,000. FML
Today, I came home from work and found that my son had taken every single one of his toys out and left them on the floor. Plus some goldfish crackers. FML
Today, my grandfather gave me a whole box of records to go with my new record player. When I thanked him, he said he'd been needing to get rid of them anyway because classical music makes him horny. I definitely didn't need to know that. FML
Today, my grandkids went around my house claiming items to inherit. FML
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Top comments
LexSwift 17
Why was no one watching your kids? If they're young enough to not know what's okay and what's not, they're young enough to need someone to watch them while you're at work.
VasilisaUzhasnaj 29
As an avid collector of vinyl records, this story was hard for me to read without cringing. Conk the little bastards and smash their Beiber CDs as payback!
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Comments (116)
lenamartinovic 13
YDI. next time hide it, or lock it, so your kids won't take it.
RussianFox 13
Why did this get thumbed down? If OP locked their records away, they would be inaccessible.
ALpein 0
How do you know they weren't locked away and that his kids aren't snoops of some kind?
teague95 16
or teach your kids not to be dumb ***** and play with your valuables
FMLsAreAwesome 0
I have a feeling there is no next time.
bmwguy01 8
Why were the kids alone in the first place? If they aren't old enough to know that was wrong?
boating_guy 33
bitch you stupid..
cyK0tek 0
^Hmm? You say something? *teehee*
skoob1 12
35! You jacked my profile pic! XD
Cruewhore 5
Are you stupid
Xalandra 17
Ouch :/ sorry OP that sucks
Archay 13
Read your profile because that's what I do, now I'm sad.
VasilisaUzhasnaj 29
I shed a tear for little Puffy as well. Made me treasure my own kitty a lot more.
niyah4sho 11
Poor Puffy :( I would report my neighbor for their dogs
Sairagna 2
I have cat just like that called Oliver and is about 16 now, I wouldn't know what to do if that happened, our neighbor has a massive golden retriever and Oliver is always sitting on the fence trolling him. Guess who's now an indoor cat.
LexSwift 17
Why was no one watching your kids? If they're young enough to not know what's okay and what's not, they're young enough to need someone to watch them while you're at work.
ladyLALAA 29
There may have been, OP didn't specofi
ladyLALAA 29
*specify. So many FML's so many unanswered questions! Excuse the double post just got fake nails put on. :(
mariet_fml 23
Not necessarily. My parents started leaving my siblings and me alone at home as soon as my oldest sister turned 10. (I was 8 and my brother 6.) Our grandmother was across the street, three cops lived on our street, and it was a safe neighborhood. We were mature enough to take care of ourselves, but we pulled some shenanigans.
docscientist 10
Ugh...kids aren't so helpless as people like to make them seem.
xStaciexLynnx 15
Kids also aren't as capable as you act like they are. I believe it's also illegal to leave kids home alone under the age of 13. Kids watching kids is never a good idea.
Kony12 0
Just like its illegal for people under 21 to drink, but yet people do it any way.
TheDrifter 24
12 is legal in Canada, but I'm from the farm, by 12 I could drive and could reasonably be expected to operate a combine unsupervised. Kids mature quick if parents let them grow and learn.
Neorecon19 18
I don't the kids would be able to throw anything for a while if it had been me.
MilkShakez 0
Well you gotta admit.... That actually sounds like a lot of fun.
vonRosen 6
"sounds" like lot o fun? I see what u did thare mister ;)
DAyBriGHTEneR 0
I don't think that was supposed to be a joke...
lukep135 6
Intended or not, i enjoyed the pun
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Fun destroying records? Those things are still valuable in 2015.
honeybuncher 3
I would be grumpy! But like other people have said, lock up your valuables!
adzz90 16
Thanks you've just made me puke with that profile pic!
Branflakes78 13
Change that Pic!! Thats just nasty as ****!
wlddog 14
What size panties are those, parachute?
KeyboardWarrior 10
Hey, if she's ever falling from a questionable height, she could always take them off and.... *BARF* NEVERMIND.
alexup24 13
There are children on this website!!! I'm scarred for life.
zebraface 15
You would be "grumpy"? That's it? I would be shooting lasers out of my eyes and screaming like a banshee.
ThePez 0
Who cares if there are children on here it's **** My Life.com they aren't supposed to be here anyway
wave7891 0
Eeeeeewwwwwwwwww I hate those underwears! My bed sheets are smaller than that! :/
aaahhhfire21 0
Haha me and my bros did that just back when hitting ur kids was still acceptable....some kids are so lucky they won't know the pain of their dads backhand
doctorhook86 25
What do you mean? I'm 26 and my dad backhanded me just last week lol
aaahhhfire21 0
Oh that explains the eye patch
linkinpark98 24
I don't know the pain of a back hand to the face, but I do know the pain of a belt buckle to the face.... That hurts like Hell.
Jaxx66 21
When I was young I even knew better than to pull shit like this. It isn't a YDI for not locking up the valuables, but a YDI for not teaching the kids boundaries.
CyberPunkTink 0
You kidding me? I'm still growing up and getting backhanded for everything I do wrong.
blackheart24 10
Yeah when I was a kid it was a belt to the ass.
mhopper 13
Same here. I used to wear jeans under my pj's so it wouldn't hurt as much
bellaxmonkeyx_fml 8
My mother was a wooden spoon ninja when I was younger. My father was the type to make you stroll outside and pick your switch. Needless to say, I was a pretty obedient child.
VasilisaUzhasnaj 29
29 - I know that one all too well. Somehow excessive child abuse did little to make me 'obedient'. More so it taught me to be withdrawn and self-reliant.
False_Stupidity 42
#36 and how do you teach kids boundaries? .. Do you run through a list of every possible scenario and tell them whats wrong and what's right? Or do you wait till they do something wrong then let them know it wad wrong and punish accordingly? (and hope you caught them before too much damage was done)
VasilisaUzhasnaj 29
As an avid collector of vinyl records, this story was hard for me to read without cringing. Conk the little bastards and smash their Beiber CDs as payback!
vbmg152 19
I, too collect vinyl! However, when my kids were small, I kept my vinyl put away! Now that they're late teens, they'd never touch them! I taught mine to appreciate things like that! YDI for not teaching your kids to appreciate your collection! If they're young, YDI for not having someone watching them!!
KriiFahMoro 9
Not every sentence has to end with an exclamation point. That was just painful to read...
blackheart24 10
15- Is there a ghost in your picture?
Jaxx66 21
25, 15 is just a very excited person.
vbmg152 19
Sorry about the exclamation points. It's a bad habit, I'm trying to break! Damn, did it again.
vbmg152 19
Is there a ghost in my pic? I never noticed. Look, no exclamation points. It's sooo hard not to use them.
luckyd880 12
Ya I see a ghost too...creepy....
ClosetTroll 10
If they are old enough to play Frisbee with your vinyl records they sure as hell are old enough to understand how valuable these are to you. Question is, did you ever tell them?
SephoraGypsy 15
Locking things up in your own home, that pose no danger to your children (covering my arse for the "Oh so you wouldn't lock up your guillotine if you had children in your house??!!" nazi's), is beyond ridiculous. ClosetTroll has it right. Most kids I know have no concept of value. Let the ******* know; something that may seem worthless to them, may mean the world to another. The profile pic freaks me out every time man.
CryMoreFMLs 15
Actually... The guillotine isn't such a bad idea. It might get them to behave better. Use their toys as examples when they're bad. OFF WITH IT'S HEAD!
Jewnut 0
I'm sure they didn't realize it wasn't OK to do, just being kids. Hope you didn't freak out and spank them. now if they do it again feel free to kick some butt
SkyBirdy 5
Double negative!
False_Stupidity 42
But it's a perfectly ok sentence, there is no double negatives there.