Today, I was at a Starbucks drive-thru and was grabbing a hot coffee when I got rear ended and my car hit the vehicle in front of me which deployed my airbag. Hot coffee can really burn when it hits your face at a high rate of speed. 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, I was at the McDonalds drive-thru getting my morning coffee, when some guy slammed into the back of my car. I'm so happy I was holding the cup between my legs at that very moment, because now I have 2nd degree burns on my lady parts. FML
Today, I grabbed a coffee at the McDonald's drive-thru on my way home from work. As I drove away from the restaurant, a kid darted across the parking lot right in front of me. I had to slam hard on my brakes to avoid hitting him, in the process spilling my hot coffee all over my jeans. FML
Today, during a snowstorm, I opened my car door to get out. The wind snapped it wide open, then immediately changed course and swung it back at me just as I stepped out, spilling an entire hot cup of coffee all over me. FML
Today, I was walking out of Starbucks when I sneezed, causing coffee to burn my nose. I screamed, dropped it, and sent scorching coffee all over my legs, while dropping everything else I was holding. FML
Today, I was walking to work, when I slipped and landed on my tail bone. Worse still, my hot coffee went flying into my face. I currently can't see out of my left eye. FML
Today, while pulling out of my work parking lot, I had a piping hot coffee tossed at me through my passenger window. I don't know if I was more amazed by this guy's exquisite aim or the fact that his coffee was so sweet I tasted the diabetes. FML
Today, my mom needed coffee so I drove to Starbucks to get her some. She let me drive the Porsche, which has never happened. Upon coming home I picked the coffee up out of the cupholder so it wouldnt spill. My phone vibrated in my pocket, I spilled the coffee and crashed the car into the garage. FML
Today, on my way out of a coffee shop, I tripped over a curb while holding a full cup of coffee. The coffee flew in slow motion, hitting a stranger right in the face. As I stood there, frozen, I realized the puddle of coffee was now surrounding both of us. All I could do was apologize while trying to avoid a public fistfight. FML
Today, while heading outside to go to work, I slip on my driveway and my coffee thermos-mug ends up flying out of my hand, and smashes my next door neighbor's brand new truck window. The thermos-mug broke and splashed hot coffee all over his seats too. He's a hard-ass military dude. FML
Today, a customer threw his cup of coffee at me screaming that it wasn't hot enough. Well, maybe it wasn't hot enough for him, but it was sure hot enough to burn me. FML
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djspazy 0
Ouch that really sucks. Make the driver pay for hospital fees.
Stahn 0
Hot coffee burns regardless of its velocity.
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Comments (89)
kaykay5833 0
#3- fail. OP... I would make him pay for hospital fees, and a new cup of coffee :)
avoidthegirl 6
Uh, legally they'd have to anyway. Their insurance is going to shit a chicken over this one. It's bad enough to rear end a person, but to hit a person and cause bodily damage AND make their car hit the one in front of them is chaos. My boyfriend got hit while stopped at a red light by some asshole who "thought he slowed down enough" (wtf?) and racked up over $5k in hospital bills, $2k for body work on just his car and god knows how much the settlement will be. I'd imagine at least $25k since he couldn't work/play golf (his job) for a month and still has issues with it.
Spl4sh_fml 0
Ouch... 10th!
Iloveyencheck 0
fail.
DutchGunner21 0
YDI - coffee does not fly at a 'high rate of speed'. Speed itself is a rate. You should have said a high rate of change of speed (which is acceleration) or a high rate of change of displacement (which is what velocity means). A rate of something is the occurance within a time interval. So a high occurance of speed in a time interval does not make sense.
ineedalifebadly 0
#13 ; How the **** does that make him responsible ?
alfonzo 0
Nazi.
lexiBRo 0
what the hell are you talking about? A typo in the post makes OP deserve hot coffee in the face?!?
reverendawesome 0
That was one of the funnier comments Ive read here. Whats better is the people saying youre stupid and whatnot. Some people dont catch sarcasm. So I say good job.
biggee531 7
You can be liable by a measurement of stupidity.
onlychildFTW 34
He can't really be stupid because he is right. But what a waste saying that on here. No one cares about how smart you think you are in physics.
pmac 1
Front airbags don't deploy if you are sitting still. Wouldn't be the side airbags because it wasn't a side impact.
Tubasaurus 0
Airbags are deployed by accelerometers. A quick change in velocity sets them off.
pmac 1
No. You can be driving 30 mph and not set them off. You have to be driving at a certain speed for the front air bags to deploy from an impact.
BananEnigma 24
Uh, maybe they were faulty?
Kris2476 0
How is this an fml? I say this all the time.. Not every inconvenient or not-perfect thing that happens to you is an fml. This one was pretty bad, but still not an fml.
trankyfran 0
Because hot coffee burns to the face is inconvenient at most, right?
ambrosia05 2
What are you on?
ashole1990 10
why does that matter why does everyone complain that 'this shouldnt be an fml' ya'll are just mad that yours don't get chosen
holly_fly 34
Because they got rear ended hard enough that not only did their coffee spill all over their face, which can cause serious burns if it's fresh, but they also hit the car in front of them, causing major damage to their vehicle. How is this NOT an FML.
Shyman4ever 0
Burn baby burn
icertainlysuck 0
Starbucks is for flamers and sissys. You deserve it.
lifebarelyeffed 0
shit, sue that ************
spectre1992 0
^ Dutchgunner, you're a ******* ******. He deserves it because he didn't say it correctly?? You sound like a prick.
flyboy57 0
oh shit!