IlikeGreenPlants
United States
Today, I found out that the plant in my kitchen that I have been watering for almost 2 years is fake. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Emyka
Austria
Today, at my job of two months, I'd taken it upon myself to water the plants around the office every day since they all looked a little sad. My boss then asked why so many of the fake plants were getting mouldy. My co-workers had watched me water plastic plants for two months and nobody bothered to tell me. FML
Anonymous
Aurora, United States
Irrigation
Today, after my neighbor asked me to water her plants while she was away, and I carefully followed her instructions for 6 days, she came home. She stared at the living room and asked why I'd watered the fake plants but forgotten the real ones on the balcony. FML
Anonymous
United States
Green fingers
Today, it's been a week since I bought a "self-watering" plant to make my life easier. Turns out the self-watering feature means the plant waters itself by leaking all over the floor when it's overfilled. Now my apartment is a mini wetland, and my carpet is fucked. FML
Lisa
Burlington, United States
Green fingers
Today, the plant I bought for my apartment a few weeks ago started looking worse. I'd followed the care instructions carefully, so I asked my neighbor for advice. She pointed out that the plastic pot was still inside the decorative pot, so the water had nowhere to drain. FML
Pauline
Canada
Green fingers
Today, three weeks after I finally tried my hand at gardening by planting a bunch of herbs and was so proud of my work, I found out that I had actually been watering weeds this whole time. My herbs were actually the things I was trying to eliminate. FML
omfgfmlife
United States
Today, my mother insisted I thoroughly water all the plants in and around my house before some people turned up. This would be fine except 90% of them are fake. She is convinced it will make them look "realer." FML
Alyxandrea Loffer
Green fingers
Today, I learned that the $30 plant that I've been tediously tending to and extremely proud of for thriving is actually just a subspecies of ragweed. FML
elle
Today, I found out that the peaceful rain I'd been listening to all night was really a broken water-main flooding my entire yard. FML
Anonymous
Denmark
Surprised, indeed
Today, I wanted to surprise my roommate by cleaning the entire apartment while she was away. Three hours later, everything looked perfect. She came home, looked around, and immediately asked why her plant was missing. I had thrown it out because I thought it was dead. FML
Waterer
San Francisco, United States
Today, I watered a dying communal plant. I was fined $250 for littering. FML
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Ninjaface 0
You might want to check up on your boyfriend/husband too. Remember, if the smell of bacon doesn't get him to stir, then you've been screwing a mannequin.
Maxine17 8
One of the few FML's nowadays where I actually laughed out loud. Nice one!
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airbub 0
MLIA
Bloodknight 22
LMFAO! Your dumb ass hell! Thanks for the laugh!
ScaredyCat 2
Seriously, how on earth could you not have realized that before now? Might it be the fact that it is plasticy? Papery? Maybe the fact that it never grew any larger? I'm not trying to insult you, I just cannot understand how you didn't notice. And if you were living with anyone, did you not wonder why no one else was watering it? Well, I'll give you this much: At least you have a green thumb...sort of. At least you tried to keep the plant alive. So, Kudos to you in that sense.
mendel_fml 0
A potted rubber tree would be plasticy, and doesn't grow much. I assume the fake plant was placed in real soil, or in hydroponic clay pellets, which you'd normally water.
CHEESYBIGMAC 0
YDI for buying a fake plant
Chopperman_fml 0
I noticed that, too. EDIT: -.-' was responding to this being posted a few days ago
lillywilly 0
i swear i read that on MLIA
kaw445 0
MLIA!!
sciencexgeek 0
Hahaha It's like when I found out the baby i took care of in my home ec class was a robot -_- After everything I did for that little shit...
mikki02 0
FAKEE! I read this on MLIAAA
wild_angel 0
Uh... wouldn't the pot have filled with water... since it's been 2 years???
mendel_fml 0
Water evaporates.