Today, I couldn't shut a drawer in my kitchen, because an oven mitt was blocking it. An oven mitt filled with tin-foil wrapped electronics. My Mom believes Internet hackers can get into her digital camera and prepaid cell phone, and apparently tin-foil will prevent that. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my kitchen is trying to kill me. So far, I've hit my head three times on cupboards that opened themselves, cut open my hand on the microwave door when it slammed shut, and burned my cheek with the "heat-proof" oven mitt when I pushed the hair off my face. FML
Today, I was in a hurry to get something out of the oven, so I quickly grabbed my roommate's only oven mitt and grabbed the pan in the oven. It didn't take long to figure out there was a hole in it when my thumb hit the hot pan. FML
Today, while house sitting, I went to take my pizza out of the oven, not realizing that the oven mitt had a hole in it. FML
Today, I learned the hard way that my oven mitt has a hole. Time to get a new one, whenever my finger stops burning. FML
Today, I thought my house was being broken into in the dead of night. Frightened, I dismounted a floor lamp as a makeshift weapon and crept through the house, channelling my inner Ellen Ripley. It turned out to be the wireless printer with a paper jam. FML
Today, I had to hide the entire drawer of kitchen knives under my bed just to keep my mother from stabbing her cheating boyfriend, and slashing his tires. This happens more often than I'd like to admit. FML
Today, I got way too used to using two oven mitts at once to take food out of the oven since I'm so clumsy. So, when I tried to take food out of the oven with the only one oven mitt I could find… Well, take a wild guess what happened. Go on, just try and guess it. FML
Today, I had to explain very slowly to my mum why she cannot put metal cutlery in the microwave. She did it anyway. FML
Today, I snuck into my aunt's house while she was working to raid her pantry, like I do most days. Excited for a snack cake, I went to the pantry. Apparently she'd found out, because there was a lock on it. FML
Today, while cooking dinner, I managed to set my oven mitt on fire. In my panic, I tried to throw it in the sink, but it landed on a stack of t-shirts, which were lying on the counter. Both the mitt and my favorite Sonic Youth t-shirt now have matching burn holes. FML
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Top comments
takeapieandrun 9
Those camera hackers have been getting out of hand recently...
SimmoRocks 1
Your Mom is retarded. FYL
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CadaverFart 0
it reminds me of some alien movies where people wear tin foil hats so their minds dont get taken over
jewyjenny 3
This is why there should be a ban on modern electronics for old people
DakotaCat 4
Your mom is adorable!
wizs6 3
of course tin foil protects electronics just like storing your dvds in ice protects from scratches
kendrrraa10 2
Well she is somewhat right.. tin foil blocks cell phone signals. In high school we had to do a science experiment where one person wrapped their cell phone in foil and another person tried to call it and it would go straight to voicemail.
ch3s 4
So that's why I can't get into he camera and phone...
bowei006 1
This acutally depends on a couple of things.
CatTTy 10
Dammit, News Corp., cut that shit out!
posteriffic 0
A well made tin foil hat will stop the government from reading your thoughts.
CoyoteOldOne 17
If you don't think you can convince her that this is silly altogether, perhaps you can convince her that the tin foil actually acts like an antenna, and increases the danger of eavesdropping, and that simply placing them by the television or radio will "scramble" the signal?