Today, I forgot to pay for my train ride for the first time. Today was also the first time I've ever seen transit security checking for people's tickets and kicking offenders off. 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, I'd purchased a ticket for the train on my mobile app. Some idiot pushed past me on his way out and in the process makes me drop my phone, ruining it. A conductor then came to check my ticket and I got fined 150 dollars. FML
Today, I tried to catch a train to get to my new job. I was stopped and told that I needed a pre-purchased ticket to enter the platform. The only way to get the ticket, they said, was by buying one on the platform. I arrived by taxi nearly an hour late for my first day. FML
Today, I hopped on a tram without a ticket to travel one stop in order to save 5 minutes off my walk. Instead, I got a $230 fine and ended up 15 minutes further away from my destination. FML
Today, my train was canceled so my ticket expired by the time another train arrived. I was fined $90 by ticket inspectors 'cause my claim that the early train didn't run was "unsubstantiated". Leaving the train I was pushed by the crowd, fell, lost a shoe and had to walk home with one bare foot. FML
Today, after rushing to the bus stop and frantically boarding at the last possible second, I realized that I didn't pay my fare with a single, but a twenty. FML
Today, I was running late for a train and bought a ticket in a hurry. I got on the wrong train, sat there for twenty minutes, and only realised my mistake when the scenery looked nothing like my stop. FML
Today, at a self-checkout, I scanned all my items, bagged them, and left. Only when I got outside did I realize I had completely forgotten to pay. I then noticed that security was running to stop me, and I had to explain that I wasn’t a thief, just an idiot. FML
Today, I got on the bus and the driver said I didn't have to pay since the ticket machine was broken. I was happy to have saved £2.40 until I realised someone had stolen my new £700 phone while I was talking to the driver. FML
Today, I was on the bus, when the inspector asked to see my ticket. I couldn't find it, and ended up being kicked off the bus while a few of the other passengers jeered at me. I found my ticket on the long walk home, buried in my pocket. FML
Today, I took the train home to save a few dollars on an Uber fare. I fell asleep on the train, got a fine for travelling outside of my paid zone, and had to take an even longer Uber home than it would have been from where I started. FML
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Top comments
Pandacupcakelove 26
Haha, that's just how the world works :-) There are 365 days in a year, and which day does your teacher decide to actually check your homework? That one day you haven't done them...
Roevera 14
What were you doing that was worth a $7000 dollar ticket?
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Comments (97)
Eila1996 5
Lol! I accidentally tried to use an out of date ticket today, and almost missed my train :p
ebdeadaccount 11
Murphy's laws, oh how I hate them.
Jac_d_ipper 10
1: we know it's bloody not easy to get one's FML confirmed, but that's not an excuse to hog someone else's to try and narrate your own!!!
herpderpherpderp 13
they're just sharing a similar experience. Chill c:
Eila1996 5
38- Thank you!! :) 35: I'm sorry if I offended you, I wasn't trying to hog the comments or turn the story into my own, I was simply trying to relate to the OP, and share a similar story!
ALlamaOnFire 20
I like you,1/43:) Anyone else would have started an argument ... Well, I would have. I feel like a bad person.
hnz 13
There's always a first time for everything. At least now u know the consequences of not paying.
cosmosis 12
Im surprised the transit officers just kick offenders off the train. Im curious to know if there was a fine too. Here in sydney, getting caught train jumping will get you a nasty fine and a lunch date with a magistrate.
foshizzle82 7
In Melbourne they call your home to verify you are who you say you are. I will never forget getting a phone call at 6am one morning asking if my sister lived at this address. I thought it was the police and that she had been in an accident. Took years off my life. Assholes.
louiseth 9
Melbourne has the worst ticket system I have ever experienced. I touched on, ran into a ticket inspector, their machine said I hadn't touched on and I got a massive fine. From that day onwards I vowed to be a proud fare evader! :)
macguy4321 14
There is a fine here in L.A. - $250 plus community service.
theluckyones 10
Really? Im in LA, did the same thing and only got a $72 citation.
Major_Whupass 3
If you're that unlucky, then I guess something was already coming for you, be happy it wasn't worse... :-)
WritingWrongs 8
Why call it luck? Obviously the turnstiles (if I'm using the correct word) showed that there was not enough money for the amount of people on the train.
WritingWrongs 8
Ah, just looked it up, wrong mechanism... I dont know what it's called then. (I'll go ahead and down vote these comments.)
BeforeItWasCool 12
That's not how life works. There isn't some superior being throwing good and bad luck around. We aren't destined for a certain fate. Tomorrow isn't decided already. You make your own decisions, and those decisions go on to affect what happens next. Sometimes you get affected by other people's decisions and that does suck. OP didn't start the day destined for something bad to happen. It just did through a series of events, leading up to the "bad luck".
TurtleSmile 14
Seeing that you're from Canada, did you try apologizing?
Roevera 14
Just because we apologize, doesn't mean our apologies are accepted. I learnt that with my first speeding ticket.
lmaouloser 5
In Canada I got off of a $7,000 ticket today by apologizing! Sometimes it works.
Roevera 14
What were you doing that was worth a $7000 dollar ticket?
MrBond007_fml 6
Wtf did you do that deserved a $7,000 punishment? *** edit*** Sorry beat me to it
Jac_d_ipper 10
13, 14 : guys it happens only in Canada.... n now we won't know what the hell is worth 7 grand.
BulldogHoops 14
Seems like Felix Baumgartner wasn't the only one breaking the sound barrier recently. Slow the **** down, 13!
WritingWrongs 8
-63, did you know humans break the sound barrier all the time? Coughing actually forces the air out of our lungs faster than the speed of sound.
KiddNYC1O 22
70- That sounds absurd. Sneezing is about 100 mph. I doubt coughing is faster... Feel free to prove me wrong.
valalvax 13
Because people are constantly sonic booming when they're sick
fuzion50 6
YDI for not paying. That's technically stealing. You shouldn't do something just because other people are. Be an example setter, not a blind follower.
CharresBarkrey 16
The OP said they forgot to pay, not that they wanted to try not to pay.
fuzion50 6
I admit that part was wrong, I misread the FML the first time. OP still shouldn't assume that just because other people get away with it, they will too. I ma sound like a goody-two-shoes here, but usually try to set a good example for anyone bothering to pay attention.
CharresBarkrey 16
I agree. But mistakes happen, and I'm sure the OP will not forget to pay again.
PeteyPablo12308 20
Not a goody two shoes... Just a self righteous asshole! :-)
sirpantselot 22
Potato potato. EDIT: that really doesn't work written down!
WritingWrongs 8
-39, calling him an asshole? That's taking things a little too far. And having morals is not being self-righteous; granted, some people can be a little uppity about it, but having good morals at all is rare in today's society.
mduffy08 8
They didn't pay for a service; that's their fault. If everyone forgot to pay for the service then there would not be enough money to run the train. Simple.
thepokemonkid 9
-39 Calling him a righteous asshole for showing that there is still hope in humanity is just as bad as someone not telling you that you are a giant dickwad for stereotyping all nice people into the kind who shove it down your throat.
uncookedyew 4
Go train?
ifoundalaska 11
Nope, the Otrain :-)
Pandacupcakelove 26
Haha, that's just how the world works :-) There are 365 days in a year, and which day does your teacher decide to actually check your homework? That one day you haven't done them...
MrBond007_fml 6
There are actually only 180-250 school days (depending on where you live)
Pandacupcakelove 26
Yeah, I said year, not school year.
LollipopDragon 4
Congrats on being the first comment without 20+ negative votes!
Pandacupcakelove 26
Thanks! I'm very honored :)
MrBond007_fml 6
Right, but there is no way a teacher could check your homework on a non school day, therefore increasing the chances of your teacher checking your homework on the one day you didn't do your homework from 1/365 to 1/180.
brittanyrmh_ 12
81 - What the hell are you even talking about, OP's on a train.
hunterluv1 20
how do you just forget to pay? It's a serious question, my town doesn't have trains. You don't have to pay for a ticket before you get on?
theluckyones 10
Trains come and go really fast and you don't want to miss them. It's possible.
sirsquab 12
Big train, lots of doors, one driver. The rest is often passengers. It's mostly an honor system, with random checks every now and then to keep people honest.
hunterluv1 20
17: Thank you for explaining, haha. I wasn't trying to be smart or anything, just I figured like the movies or an airport, you had to buy a ticket before you could get through. guess I was wrong. :)
theluckyones 10
Damn, The same thing happened to me yesterday.i didn't have enough for the full trip and skipped paying just one metro station .. And got a 72$ ticket-_-
Schizomaniac 24
YDI.
annie_nk 23
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
I'm gonna seem like a grammar nazi and mostly get thumbed down but the dollar sign comes first. $72. I know it's read like it comes last but the English language is just weird like that. Sorry. Just a personal pet peeve.
Betz 10
30: Judging by your sentence fragments, I don't think you're in the position to educate others on the English language.
wolfhausen 7
30 said she might "seem" like a grammar nazi, not that she is. Plus she politely admitted its a personal peeve and even suggested she understood where they were coming from. No need for insults! :)
annie_nk 23
66 - Thank you :) I certainly wasn't trying to come off as rude and I'm not a grammar nazi. I mess up too so I can't claim to be one. I don't even want to be one.
heygirlie777 21
If it's a PERSONAL pet peeve, keep it to yourself.
doctorwhofan567 2
Was this by any chance in east la, by soto station
cookie_3008 4
Listen, I can be very clueless myself, but how do you FORGET to pay for a TRAIN TICKET. Its like going to the movies and being totally unaware that you havent paid for the entry. Anyway... I hope you were able to travel eventually.
emilyjgraham 34
actually no it's not... to get into the cinema you have to show your ticket in the first place. with trains it's a case of buy it at the station or sometimes, like in the UK, you can buy them on the train. if you're in a hurry or not 100% focussed on doing something it's quite easy to forget something.
eggmarie 25
I forgot to clock in at work yesterday because I was in such a rush and we were very busy. It happens sometimes.
cookie_3008 4
I get your point. ^_^ OP lives in Ontario, and so do I.. So Im guessing OP was riding VIA or GO trains, and the times Ive ridden the train Ive had to show my ticket even before getting to the platform... But then again I live in Toronto, maybe OP lives were there is a smaller station and it is possible to "forget" and just jump in. ... And the clocking in thing at work, has happened to me too. =)
jelly713 19
If you're lets say, are desperate to catch your train, it's easy to go check if it's on it's way & then panic when it's there. Then you'll end up trying to hurry up & jump on forgetting to pay for a ticket.