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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Edmund_Dantes 0
This is the problem with the environmental movement. Hypocritical douchebags.
lmmmr 0
#78- So in order to attempt to improve the world, you yourself must be the epitome of perfection? I can see you are going to be quite beneficial to humanity.
floresntadolecnt 0
#48 and #78, it was an accident, don't be such asswipes. The OP's not a hypocrite, no one would knowingly leave their lights on for 2 weeks straight. And him trying to talk to his friends about conserving doesn't make him a self righteous douchebag. I dont' know about you guys, but I'd like to be able to enjoy the earth for many years to come.
Weil 0
YDI, hypocrite.
vt_mruhlin 0
I wonder how "green" that round trip flight to Kenya was. But at least you got a photo-op with some poor people so you can make yourself look noble or something. Seriously, what can you do in 2 weeks that a bunch of Kenyans can't?
thepulse100 0
one of your retarded friends probably turned it on just to piss you off.
tibbydibby 0
That's kinda hypocritical, don't you think? But seriously. That is considered wasting electricity, of course I would make SURE all lights are off before I leave even just to my summer job, hence a vacation.
liveitlearnit 0
I second #73. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose. I wish the people with that mentality would be the first to lose air. All of the people ranting about how his/her plane trip was so bad for the environment, when did he say he was an freaky environmentalist? Perhaps "going green" was the shortest way to describe what he meant- living without some of the luxuries just to help reduce a tiny bit of emission and experience a life less focused on power use. It's a total fail because he ended up not doing it himself, but really. Lighten up.
GabriLee 0
Stop saying how his plane trip was not saving the environment. A lot of trips to impoverished areas are made in an effort to educate people. Many of the problems that a group would cover by traveling to poverty help the environment because they are helping PEOPLE. Thousands die daily from polluted water, and by teaching people to clean their water properly, the environment will thank them as well as the thousands of lives that are saved. Even doing the smallest thing for the smallest amount of people could help to make the world a better place. Stop calling the OP an ass, because at least they're out there trying to help, while many of you deny the fact that we are even damaging our environment at all. The signs are undeniable and if you choose to ignore them, fine, but there is no need to insult those who are putting in an effort to make up for your shortcomings.
thabeast 0
you didnt change the amount of power being produced at the power plant so you didnt hurt the enviroment alternitavely, if you did turn them all off then you would have only saved the amount of extra money on your electric bill. NOTE that electricity wasnt wasted, it would have disipated into the wires if left to sit sorry but, in the big picture your house is utterly insignificant