Today, I didn't secure my friend's wheelchair well enough to my car roof before giving him a ride. It flew off mid-drive and we still haven't found it. 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 found my "lost" bicycle in my best friend's garage. I've been having to catch two buses to get to work for the past few months. FML
Today, I went off-roading with a group of people. I'd been to wearing a $250 hat while my brother was driving at least 60mph in the dirt, it flew off my head. When I returned to go retrieve it, someone had taken it. FML
Today, my friend and I were getting picked up by his dad after a carnival. As I put my stuff in the back of the car and shut the door to walk around to get in the other side, his dad drove off, thinking I was in the car, leaving me to walk up their hill. It was midnight and I ended up lost. FML
Today, I went to the beach with a friend. We'd forgotten to get our towels out of the SUV, so I rushed back to the parking lot. I opened the passenger-side door and climbed in to begin my search. After ten seconds or so, I realized I'd busted into someone else's car. FML
Today, I was having a conversation with a new friend when she remembered she needed to grab something from her car. I don't know where she parked, but it's been two and a half hours and she's still gone. FML
Today, I couldn't get to work because I couldn't find my car keys. It turns out, my mother took them and put them "somewhere safe." She can't remember where they are. FML
Today, my smartphone fell out of my cargo shorts pocket onto the floor of my friend's car. I didn't even notice until he drove me home, where I noticed that the pocket was empty. FML
Today, I put my phone on top the car while putting my daughter in her car seat. Told myself not to forget it. Then I drove away, and it flew off the top of the car on the freeway. It got ran over. FML
Today, I forgot my phone on the roof of my car. I took a 30 minute drive from my friend's city to my city. I got on to my driveway, surprised to see my phone still there. Thinking I'm really lucky, I pick up my phone. Then, I trip over a pebble, cracking my phone in the process. FML
Today, I woke up and saw my new car was gone and my son seemed very shifty. When I questioned him with the cops, he admitted to taking it for a joyride and "leaving it" behind a derelict mall. We drove over. It was wrapped around a light post, completely destroyed. FML
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Thoricsteam20 24
Did he just sit in the car awkwardly as you searched.
UnidentifiedFun 37
Let's just hope no one 'found' it with their windshield
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Comments (64)
psychopolarbear 28
How did you not notice? Just wondering because that seems like it would make a lot of noise coming off and hitting the ground.
Hammer1722 19
Going to be honest, I had to reread this a couple of times because I may have thought OP meant that his friend was in the wheelchair... I wondered why there wasn't so many YDI.
oiler 21
I wonder what happened to his Christmas tree
linderp 13
:(
Thoricsteam20 24
Did he just sit in the car awkwardly as you searched.
riffehunter 16
in all honesty what else could he do?
Psycho_Babydoll 26
I should not have laughed so hard at this because it's probably true.
NoBothersForMe 29
This is why you always double, maybe even triple check to see if you secured it well enough
stingray112 24
Live and learn
Unused_Account13 25
Too bad this was a pretty expensive and stupidly necessary lesson...
Luxray24 13
IMO the best vocal track in a Sonic the Hedgehog game.
AC98 19
How do you not notice a wheelchair flying out of your car? Better yet why didn't you make sure it was secure? YDI
sadistmonkey 19
I suspect that they noticed it fell off and immediately stopped to look for it but it went somewhere crazy and they couldn't find it. Also, maybe the OP did make sure it was secure but it somehow fell off anyway.
annoyedperson 25
Why didn't you put it in the trunk
fluffycatsdad 33
I know, right? Those were the first words out of my mouth!
Seabass_Chan 33
Maybe OP drives a SmartCar.
Iwannarock1 19
Smart cars are petty dumb.
ThrottleJockey 36
Until you put a Hyabusa engine in them. Then they're a blast!
hellnosucka 27
and that, is how you lose a wheelchair.
llamallover 2
You are so insightful! How could I have realised that without your sage words?
imahobbitlol 24
Don't wheelchairs fold a certain way so you can put it in your car?
gobiteme2 34
Wheelchairs do fold down so you can place in car or trunk. OP shows how brilliant he is by not figuring out how to unlock locks, also for not asking how to do it. Why would anyone think he would be able to tie a proper knot.
delude 26
21 if it was a wheelchair that could be folded why would the friend not point that out? OP was strapping it to the car that's a pretty hard thing to miss
kirkaygri 18
Depends on what he drives. I have a drop top Mustang, a wheelchair, even a small, fully collapabale one, isn't fitting in my car at all. Ever. You couldn't even put it on top. So if he drove a small coupe with a tiny trunk, the roof would be the only option.
alitairi 18
his trunk could have been full.
photographer49 22
Even if the trunk was full, there is such a thing as a back seat
pokemyeyes 23
It probably was folded and tied down sideways onto the roof maybe because op doesnt have backseats or a boot or space, either way i find it hard to believe the wheel chair was just sitting on the roof of the car upright.
TXlove 6
If it is a custom WC, as many younger people who are permanently in wheelchairs have, they don't all fold.
aecribb 14
On mine, the wheels come off and the back folds down, but some stay upright and just fold in half in the middle. I find it hard to believe that OP couldn't fit in in his car if it's designed like mine, since my friends used to put it in the trunk of my Corolla which had 2 12" subwoofers taking up the majority of the space and I rode in my friend's dad's Camaro convertible once and we fit it in there. But like I said, not all of them are like mine. Without knowing all of the details, FYL OP, but more F your friend's L.
snarkytruth 37
#24 Back seat floorboard between the front and back. Or on the back seat strapped in at an angle. If you cared enough about your friend you would find a way or take a taxi together. Roof -it is going to scratch the hell out of a roof and be a serious hazard. As for "never" with your mustang, even if it were a two seater for less than $200 a simple hitch rack a child could operate solves that problem.
corky1992 33
Sounds like you owe him a new wheelchair. I have no idea how you managed to lose a wheelchair. Shouldn't you have stopped the second it fell off?