Today, I got back from a service trip to Kenya, where I had no running water or electricity. I encouraged my friends to go green and help raise awareness by conserving as much electricity as possible. I return home to find that all my lights have been on for 2 weeks. FML
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Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML
Today, I finished working a 70 hour work week. I'm a lineman for the electric company, and worked extended hours all week getting people's lights back on after a wind storm. When I got home, my power was out. FML
Today, as I was shampooing my hair in the shower, the power went out. Since my house has well water, no power means no water. FML
Today, there was a power outage at my apartment. I ended up deciding that the power wasn't going to come on any time soon, and that I should go to a hotel for the night. Just after I unpacked at the hotel, my neighbor called to say the power had come back. FML
Today, after a power outage at my house, my 14-year-old brother was genuinely confused as to why our flashlights still worked if we had no electricity. FML
Today, I was using a public restroom when the lights suddenly turned off. Panicking, I waved my arms around, trying to trigger the motion sensor, but nothing happened. I had to finish in the dark, and as I was leaving, the janitor noticed me, turned the lights back on, and said, “Yeah, I turned those off earlier to save power. Hope you were OK in there.” FML
Today, the power in my village went out. This caused the back-up battery powered alarm to go off. Nobody in the house even knew our alarm worked, let alone how to make it stop. It's been going off for over an hour now. FML
Today, I arrived at the kennels I work in to find the power disconnected and the water pump off. This meant I had to bucket water and carry it to keep over sixty assorted dogs and cats alive in temperatures over 90 degrees. The moment I finished, the power came back on. FML
Today, I took a shower after I finished typing an important essay I've been working on for days. My computer illiterate mum shut the computer down when I was gone, without saving a thing. When I confronted her, she yelled at me for "wasting electricity". FML
Today, my roommate decided to turn off all appliances in the house to "save" electricity. This included the refrigerator. FML
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Top comments
noshitsherlock 0
WTF you deserve it. Why didn't you check before you left?
alisalei 0
ydi definitely. i'm sick of all this "go green" jawn, you guys are all hypocrites.
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Comments (110)
Go_Home 0
Your words just slapped you back in the face real hard :)
jasey_rae 0
while i do believe that we should be conserving energy and other resources its not because of the "go green" movement. thats actually been proven to not be very necessary, scientists are now saying the whole going green thing is useless. but whats annoying is if youre one of the self-righteous pricks who thinks that because they go green they are a thousand times better than anyone else. the only reason why this is a YDI is because when you were home, how the **** did you manage to leave ALL of your lights on? if you want to support some cause, good for you. BUT then you need to not pull an Al Gore here.
nji9ol 0
fail
fortunesque 0
Waah!! Who cares?
ForestFire0 1
you got what you deserved, you preachy self-righteous douchebag. Don't go around telling other people what to do. Keep doing things like going to Africa, but don't go around telling other people to come with you.
Sucks2beYouxD 0
Well, at least your bill won't have much change this month either. Since during the 2 weeks you were gone, you were also using electricity of 2 wees.
palmtrees 1
Really, #38? You don't think there are parts of Kenya (or other countries, for that matter) that don't have electricity and/or running water? Ever been there? If the OP had gone on vacation, that would be one thing, but he/she said it was a SERVICE trip, meaning it was likely to an impoverished area, i.e. one likely to be without those amenities.
FMLwin 1
Are you all that stupid? He said it was a mistake and perhaps he didn't realize the importance of going green until his time in Kenya. And @ aero who said "I'll go green when you pay my bills"... GOING GREEN SAVES ELECTRICITY BILLS YOU ******* RETARD Everyone who clicked YDI, go jump off a cliff and die.
palmtrees 1
Also, to everyone who's saying that #30 misunderstood/is stupid - I thought it was pretty obvious (especially since they put "go green" in quotes) that they were making fun of the OP by essentially saying that if the OP thought that leaving lights on for two weeks straight was going green then they'd be happy to do the same if someone else were paying the bill. Sarcasm, people.
sadistmonkey 19
I agree with #35 (assuming it's sarcastic :-P)