Today, I lost hundreds of dollars in gift cards. Robbed? No. Mugged? Don't think so. My roommate threw them away after he got water on them, thinking that it rendered them unusable. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got mugged. I almost felt sorry for him: he got a $15 cell phone, a frozen debit card, a credit card with only $50 of credit left on it, and no cash. FML
Today, I found out the gift card my friend gave me for Christmas actually has no money on it and was never purchased in the first place. FML
Today, as I turned to face the cashier at the supermarket, I managed to knock over an entire display of gift cards with my backpack. FML
Today, I found a gift card under my bed that I lost a few months ago for $400 to a store that went out of business last week. FML
Today, I lost my wallet while out shopping. Panicked, I retraced my steps and found it at a store, turned in by an employee. Grateful, I opened it to find a note that read, "We left the money but took one dollar for karma." I checked. They did actually take one dollar. FML
Today, I got mugged. I also got an extra kick in the face for not having money in my wallet. FML
Today, at 4:00 a.m., I woke up and realized that I had thrown an expensive gift certificate for a friend in the garbage. Since it was garbage day, I ran out in the rain in my pajamas and rifled through all three bags of garbage. Twice. I found the gift certificate. It was in my pocket. FML
Today, I went to the store to buy some groceries. Several hours later I realize that I can't find my wallet. After looking all over my house and then the store parking lot, I had my credit cards cancelled. On the drive home, I feel something under me. It was my wallet. FML
Today, while paying for groceries, I opened my wallet to find that all my cash had been exchanged for Monopoly money. FML
Today, I was robbed while recovering from a robbery. FML
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Top comments
Misshhh 23
Your roommate is a dumbass.
micassures_fml 19
Try and search the trash if it's not too late!
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Comments (69)
Charles900 16
Wow, OP, that's got to hurt. Any chance you can find them?
ballbags 14
I would drag their Ass outside and throw them into the damn dumpster. If they could be that dumb then they can get that dirty
Keiajacole 16
Dig in the trash you dumb ass.
abNormal62 23
Spill something on his bank card and his credit card and throw them away....,
ballbags 14
Hey a magnet to the back works better.
Bibliovore 26
The roommate tossed the cards. (Or perhaps used them; see #11.) Even if the roommate's ill-conceived notion that wetness rendered cards useless had been right, the roommate would've still been the one responsible for their loss. Any which way, the roommate should presumably, responsible for recompense. Did the roommate go dumpster diving to get the cards back, OP, or has a payment plan been arranged?
RAH94 17
What an idiot...
truckers_wife 23
is there a way you can call the gift card company/ies and have them cancel the cards and send you new ones with the remaining balance? I think you'd need like the receipt or something, but I'm pretty sure it's a possibility.
escapingreality 19
gift cards aren't the same as debit cards...the only way that would be possible is if OP had scratched off the back of the card to reveal the card numbers and wrote them down, and had registered the gift cards with the companies that issued said cards...or if they were prepaid visa/MasterCard gift cards, and even then OP would still have to had done the same
Dick_diamond 22
You can't fix stupid
False_Stupidity 42
Suuure you can, you just need a shovel... and an alibi...
Enslaved 38
My in laws once sent me a $100. Walmart gift card through the mail this Christmas. When I told them it was lost. They were able to cancel it and reissue a new one because they had all the information that it was purchased with their credit card. Hopefully whoever gave you the gift cards would be able to do the same if you explain what happened. It was an easy fix for them.
annihil8or 15
Accidentally spill water on your roommate's laptop and throw it away