Today, I finished up my physics project. I had to make some thing out of toothpicks and glue that will keep an egg from breaking when dropped 20 feet. It took me 10 hours to make it, but only took my dad 10 seconds to step on it and break it. It's due tomorrow. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I stayed up until 2 a.m. building my daughter's birthday present because I wanted everything to be perfect when she woke up. She opened the little oven door on the toy kitchen, and the whole thing collapsed onto the floor. I found an unopened bag of screws sitting on the table. FML
Today, after working like a caffeine-fuelled thunderstorm for 9 hours straight on an art project, my 2 friends informed me that it was due next week. I slept for 10 hours, and then went to my class without my project, thinking I lucked out in the long run. Clearly not, as it was due today. FML
Today, I tried to make a rocket, using Diet Coke and Mentos. It worked pretty well, as both the kitchen window and my chipped tooth can testify. FML
Today, I was taking my architecture project to school. I'd spent days preparing my little model house. I stepped outside with it in my hand, and right at that moment a gust of wind ripped it away. It's currently lying in my neighbour's garden, smashed to pieces. FML
Today, halfway through assembling a toy kitchen for a birthday, I realized the instructions made no sense and half the screws looked identical. I still somehow finished it and felt triumphant until the kid opened the oven door, the whole thing tipped sideways, and I had to spend the rest of the party holding it together with one hand. FML
Today, I cracked an egg which turned out to have an extremely thin shell, so at first contact with the bowl, it came apart in my hand and the contents glooped right through my fingers, all the way down the kitchen cabinet, into a half-open drawer, as well as onto the floor and underneath the cabinet. FML
Today, I was cleaning out the garage and found one of my old science fair projects. It was disqualified for outside help and cheating. I didn't do either. FML
Today, I was finishing up my art project that was due the next day. I was really tired and fell asleep on my table. Three hours later, I woke up to find my project torn to bits. I went out and saw my cat vomiting out feathers and other materials I used for my project. FML
Today, I saw a person in my class completing a project that was due two periods later and that they had just started in the bathroom. They got a better grade than me. FML
Today, after spending 6 hours straight working on a project at school, I decided to call it a night. The instant I set foot out of the lab, the building started screaming. The maintenance guy had set the alarm without telling me. The police had to let me out. FML
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bobtea 1
YDI for leaving it on the floor.
LemonFairy 0
FAIL people. Re-read the FML. It's for physics, and must be made of toothpicks and glue. Toothpicks and glue. Have that key fact down? Good.
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bobtea 1
YDI for leaving it on the floor.
pinky2 0
fail.
hello1324 0
i remember doing this project. In fifth grade. and why would u leave it on the floor? dumbass
seanreddog 4
I think what he meant was he was gone for ten seconds when it was broken, not his dad stepped on it for ten seconds.
riku3220 2
I remember doing this project as well. I used a paper cup, cotton balls, paperclips, string, and a Wal-Mart bag. I made a parachute and the cotton balls were to resist shock. It took me 15-30 minutes. Why'd it take you 10 hours?
LemonFairy 0
FAIL people. Re-read the FML. It's for physics, and must be made of toothpicks and glue. Toothpicks and glue. Have that key fact down? Good.
seanreddog 4
It never says MUST, but that IS implied.
Midget9 0
I did it in second grade and dropped of the top of my school. I took a big foam ball, cut a hole in it and tied it to a helium balloon. The balloon didn't do much, but it looked cool and my egg was fine. Took me ten minutes.
seanreddog 4
But i guess had to does mean its a requirement, so, my bad.
Sun_Kissed18 25
Because it had to be made out of toothpicks! Glued together individually in a well thought out structure
TheDoge 0
The easiest way to do this is make a quick cube - like 1 tooth pick's length in measurement. And then, a minute before it is dropped, pour a litre or two of glue into it. sure it'll overflow, but the egg is gonna be a-ok.
catwest8686 0
if your dad broke it by stepping on it how did you expect it to survive the fall?
MrAdventure 1
FAIL. Left it in a place where it could be stepped on.
pipp360 0
i hate your d
Pirategrl410 0
Hey at least now you know exactly how to make it...
BaconLover27 1
When I did mine I made a paper egg shape the painted it filled it with jello and had my egg in the jello it survived
TheFailthDoctor 2
The structure may have made it too big to not keep on the floor, and it could have just been in a bad place.
JustaDO_fml 14
Because the op said they had to only use toothpicks and glue.
zach205 24
110 A full grown adult male can deliver more force by stepping on something that an egg, toothpicks, and glue would falling 20ft, unless what he desigjed was huge, the force it was impact the ground with would be much less than a full grown adult male stepping on something
Star9919 0
Sorry! Good luck gluing it back XP FYL
BeeSkwaird 0
Because people should expect Physics projects to be lying around on the floor...? YDI, OP.
gars56 5
Maybe he was testing it? Twenty feet is a big drop. Maybe he was doing it off his roof
snegfml 0
You spent ten hours on something and left in on the FLOOR where someone could easily step on it? YDI.
lyndis_fml 0
Shouldn't have left it on the floor, should you.
perdix 31
Your dad climbed up on the table and crushed your project? He probably just wanted you to fail so you would stay home with him forever. He loves you!
stlkid 0
Then I guess you should get back to work!
NoneOfTheAbove 0
what was it doing on the floor? Smart move genious. I guess humpty dumpty is not going to make it D:
mock09 0
Smart reply misspelling genius, NoneOfTheAbove. Doesn't really work when you're trying to make fun of someone's intelligence. FAIL.
AcesAndEights 0
@ mock09 - And what does a typo have to do with intelligence?
McBadAss 0
YDI because it took you 10 hours to make the first one. We did the same thing back in my high school science class except we only had one class to make design and create the whole thing, and most of the groups successfully protected the egg. Its not that tough......unless you're retarded.
JP101 0
Its not an FML or a YDI. Fact of the matter is, it wouldn't have worked anyways. Those things never work. I hated doing that when I took physics (6 years ago :-)