Today, I was helping my friend put up a wooden fence at his new house. I was holding the sections of fence up while he nailed them in with an air powered nail gun. The gun malfunctioned and fired twice putting the second nail through my hand and into the wood. We had to pry the nail out. 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 had a narrow escape with a nailgun that nailed my workboot to the floor but luckily missed my foot. After I calmed down and changed boots I returned to the nailgun, started working again and barely 30 seconds later I managed to nail my thumb to a piece of wood. Man, I'm bad at my job. FML
Today, I taught my friend how to use a staple gun. She taught me how to get staples out of my hand. FML
Today, I was at my friend's house. We were looking at her dad's guns, and I was explaining gun safety and how you should never put your finger on the trigger. I then shot a hole in the floor of her house. FML
Today, our 9 year-old son managed to shoot himself in the gut with my nail gun. According to my wife, this is completely my fault, because I ONLY kept it in my locked garage, ONLY secured in its box, ONLY completely disconnected from the power, ONLY on the highest shelf near the roof. FML
Today, I learned what a nail gun shooting my leg feels like. FML
Today, while trying to pull a nail out of some wood with a crowbar in my theatre class, my girlfriend, who was holding down the wood with her foot, thought it would be funny to move her foot and make me lose my balance. Instead, the crowbar flew up and struck me in the nuts. FML
Today, as I was pulling into my driveway, I hit my fence. The same fence that I had repaired last week because I had run into it. FML
Today, I now know how it feels to have a splinter of wood hammered a full inch underneath your fingernail. FML
Today, I was at my friends' farm and we decided that we wanted to go to their old treehouse. When we got down there, it turned out my friend Cat had forgotten her shoes. Being a gentleman, I lent her my sandals. I then climbed the treehouse, fell out, and got a nail through my foot. FML
Today, my friend thought it would be funny to use an electric sander on my arm during our construction class. FML
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nancyngo 0
I'm so sorry, that's extremely painful.
Iwannabetreo 11
Fuuck ... My hand hurts from reading this. D:
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Comments (122)
mushoo_fml 0
It is also the correct version of FYL. YLIF indicates that you are concurring on the ****** nature of OP's life. FYL technically means that you're cursing the OP's life even more! EDIT: This was in reply to #21.
davidhasmorefun 0
that sucks. I wouldn't have pulled it out though. you gatta get pictures and freak out your friends first. lol
catatonicsleep 17
Aren't you supposed to leave the nail in until you get to the ER incase you hit an artery and extracting the nail will make you bleed lots....
Darkhumor 0
exactly my thoughts! And extracting would probably have caused more damage than necessary...I mean, if he's alive to post this fml he's probably not dead from bleeding out This post must have taken a long time to poke out with his good hand
kallielou 10
#38- OP's hand was nailed to the fence, so unless they brought the whole fence with them to the ER, I guess I can understand why OP pryed the nail out of their hand :P
Nic_hole 0
Ahhhh the second painful one!!! ouchh dude that suxx I'm sorry 8/
starzchick 0
my husband has had this happen to him a couple times, and it happens to pretty much every carpenter that operates a nail gun.. they misfire all the time and shoot twice. I hope you didn't pull the nail all the way out of your hand- just out of the wood so you could get medical help. You could have hit a nerve and done permanent damage. My husband is a pretty tough guy, but he'd never pull the nail out of his own hand, that's just stupid.
blastvortex 4
Here's a work safety tip - don't leave anything you don't want punctured within the forward range of the nail gun, etc. Accidents of this nature are common enough in the particular field, but they are also mostly avoidable if you use proper procedure.
mammajamma12 0
uhh im not using my hands anymore.ill probly dress up like an old person to live in a retirement home where people will feed me.
Nayda_fml 0
Total FML. Hope u went to Hospital.
gingersnapper 0
Yep. But if you get lockjaw, there's no better way to lose weight.
mammajamma12 0
sounds like a home improvment episode to me.
jakeidk 0
COOL!