Today, I got nominated to sit in a chair in the middle of the gym during a high school rally while the entire school got to throw paper balls at me. 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, we had a sprint race in gym class that I wasn't looking forward to because I'm a little chubby. The race started and I shot off as fast as I could, somehow in the lead. Everyone was cheering. When I was nearing the finish line I turned around, only to see the race hadn't started yet. FML
Today, I was in the toilet. Some idiots thought it was funny to throw a water balloon into the cubicle. The balloon didn't pop, but fell in the toilet, sending my own urine onto my shorts. I had 4 hours left of school. FML
Today, as I was walking back to my dorm, I looked down and thought, "I wonder why the ground is wet in just this one spot?" Then I got hit with a water balloon. FML
Today, my social studies teacher thought it would be a great idea to have a casual debate about Margaret Thatcher and her legacy. Within 10 minutes, the entire class was yelling, screaming, throwing stuff at each other. I got hit in the face with a binder. FML
Today, I was jumped and savagely beaten to the ground by a group of six-year-olds wearing Disney princess masks. FML
Today, I faked a sore throat for the school nurse so I could go home early. It took my dad the rest of the school day just to get there to pick me up. FML
Today, my band played for our school. We were cheered for and everything. Being the lead singer, I tried to look cool and push the mic away and pull it back by pushing down the bottom of the stand with my foot. It hit my face and I bled like crazy, but I kept singing. No one clapped at the end. FML
Today, I was practicing my lines for theater class in the hall. My partner and I chose a script where we argue over me stealing her boyfriend. Since it started to sound like a real argument, another student said that I was a "crazy bitch" and punched me in the face. FML
Today, I was told it was inconvenient for me to take lunch breaks, because someone else has to answer the phones and no one else wants to actually do any work. FML
Today, I was at a water park with my family. They wanted me to stand underneath this big bucket filled with water. I didn't know it tips over, and my swimsuit isn't the tightest, so when all the water fell down, my swimsuit bottoms fell to my knees in front of tons of kids. FML
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feldco1 17
I'm curious as to why they do this and if it occurs every year.
katt_is_here 24
So your school is actively advocating singling someone out and bullying them? Wooooooow...change schools.
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Comments (107)
whatafuckup 14
Aww that sucks for you. Atleast they were paper balls
golden_warrior 23
I bet if they are throwing knifes, then you would be like, "at least they weren't bullets."
buddy_J 16
Dude it's only paper balls. Get over it.
HKCgrimmjow 15
Hey man... Paper cuts are serious business
L2U7A_E5I9A2E8H 20
At least they weren't LEGOS!
\ 28
Hey, at least they weren't human balls...
prinncess00 16
At least they weren't grenades.
bubblyhayley 16
what kind of school is this :0
Gestpacho88 12
At least they weren't J-Biebs posters, also #47 your profile pic accents your commet splendidly.
dragonrider1959 18
It's humiliating!
emmingle 24
Hey! It could have been worse. They could have been chucking newly sharpened pencils.
cyttex 13
It could have been worse? I'm pretty sure the fml isn't about how much the paper balls hurt. More about the humiliation that happened to op.
persianninja 23
I couldn't imagine a school that would let you throw pencils at you during a pep rally
feldco1 17
I'm curious as to why they do this and if it occurs every year.
Ghosty546 16
Tradition.
NoMore_CoolNames 14
Tradition, to some kids it might have been an honor.
AssassinBug 15
The Hunger Games meets 1 v 100.
XxDevilxXGt 26
Im curious as to why OP would even agree to it and then go write an fml about it. I suppose you can say "peer pressure" but that's precisely why I'll say YDI. Just say NO! You did it as a kid, use those no-skills.
NeatNit 33
No one said OP agreed. "I got nominated" didn't mean it ended up happening.
DarkCaesar 17
Loser
whyisitme12 19
The person already have paper balls thrown own him. Now he put this story up for comfort. And u bully him
FrietvanPiet 16
It's FML don't post stuff on here if you can't take people telling you the truth
potatomanjr 16
What evidence do you have saying they are a loser? Just because they were nominated doesn't necessarily mean anything bad.
Nvjds 12
Wtf?
katt_is_here 24
So your school is actively advocating singling someone out and bullying them? Wooooooow...change schools.
SWC_Penguin 17
Have you ever been bullied? It's psychologically damaging and recursive and is designed to drive people to seclusion. This doesn't even come close. It's actually doing the opposite as a great many students will now feel fondness for the OP. I really wouldn't compare the two things.
kirasant 19
I disagree completely, #23. I would have been humiliated to be in OP's spot. To have the school pick you as the person they most want to throw things at? Be put out on display as the person to torment and have to sit there as teachers watch? Trust me, the people I went to school with wouldn't have felt "fond" of me for putting up this; they'd have had a great time laughing at me and would have used it as one more thing to torment me with, with the goal of "driving me into seclusion". This is awful and the teachers should be ashamed.
SystemofaBlink41 27
Can you define "fondness"? It really depends on the person. Some could take it as a joke, but OP could be humiliated by this.
SWC_Penguin 17
Well yeah, it sounds totally awful. It's definitely an FML for the OP. But just because this is terrible and bullying is also terrible it doesn't make them the same thing. There can be multiple bad things in the world.
SWC_Penguin 17
I'm sure she was humiliated. I never said otherwise. "Fondness" meaning that the vast majority of students will feel sorry for the OP and also admire her ability to get through a trying event. That doesn't mean it was a good thing.
cryssycakesx3 23
I think throwing shit at someone would new considered bullying. but I think we found the person to throw paper balls at.
Crazymye 14
@ 48 I'm pretty sure that's not "fondness" means. I would think that would be more pity than anything.
rocker_chick105 31
I thought being fond of something means you liked it a lot? Such as "I am fond of my new necklace."
fucMyLifeSoHard 18
48- First thing's first: That's not what "fondness" means. Secondly, I highly doubt that the other students would "feel sorry for her" as they are the ones who, after all, nominated her to be in this position in the first place.
tukies 28
I'm not so sure this is bullying. When I was in high school we did this every year. It was all in good fun. Sometimes it was teachers, and other times it was students. I wouldn't have minded getting paper thrown at me.
mikuxxhatsune 32
No this wouldn't actually be considered bullying unless this happened several times. Probably just a joke, maybe your friends bribed everyone to pick you as a joke.
Alikia96 20
Must have been quite the situation... but I couldn't help but picture that one episode when people accuse patrick of disturbing the big Clam and start throwing peanuts at him :( Keep your head up
ZY1431 24
I'd pull some mad ninja blocking skills
imyy 20
I was going to make a paper joke, but it would've been tear-able :-)
perdix 31
I'd think a different kind of balls would be more fun. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?Know what I mean? Like golf. What were you thinking?
SystemofaBlink41 27
Jesus! Golf balls? Is that a death sentence?
Shrouds 14
the base kind