Today, I was setting up comcast cable boxes for my house. I had the packaging everywhere when I finished. Looking admirably at my job, I backed out my door, and stepped on bubble wrap, scaring myself. I flailed, fell, reached out, grabbing one of the cable wires. I pulled the cable box and my modem off. 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 finally got a cable box for my TV. When I was connecting the cable, my tv fell and shattered the screen. FML
Today, I was driving home from a long day at work fixing people's electronics. When I got home, I got a call from work saying I needed to go back and help a customer with their TV again. When I got there, after an hour of driving, I realized I'd accidentally kicked the power cord out. FML
Today, while cleaning up, I dropped a box of thumbtacks, spilling them all over the floor. As I fumbled to pick them up, the power went out. FML
Today, I was lying on the floor playing with my cat. I was holding her in the air, when my sister tripped over the TV cord and unplugged the cable. The TV made a loud fuzzy sound, I got scared and threw my cat in the air. I got scratched in the face by a falling cat. FML
Today, at work, I went to place a small item on a shelf. The shelf fell on me, trapping my hand. While lifting it, the top shelf fell against my chest and the products all dumped on my face. I then realized the shelves were only held up by zip ties. FML
Today, I finally finished vacuuming my downstairs. Instead of finding the wall outlet and unplugging the vacuum, I triumphantly tugged the cord from across the room to release the plug from the wall. It flew at me at top speed and hit me in the face. FML
Today, I was moving out of my old place. While walking around to make sure I would get my damage deposit back, I stepped on my roommate's lipstick and smeared it all over the white carpet. Then I tripped on the phone cord and ripped the whole thing out of the wall. FML
Today, after I had finished vacuuming, I ripped the cord out of the outlet and it hit me in the face cutting both my top and bottom lip. FML
Today, I was replacing some outlets for work and I got surprise-electrified. I threw my wire strippers in the air while yelling, "Oh fuck me." The homeowner and his 2 kids were standing 3 feet away. He was not happy. FML
Today, my laptop plug got stuck in the wall outlet. I stood there for 10 minutes violently trying to yank it out. My boss came in and screamed at me for making noise. I was angry, so I glared at him and yanked on the plug as hard as I could. It dislodged itself noiselessly and I fell over. FML
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welderchick87 0
So....you fell and pulled your modem and cable box down to the floor? Is that all? If you didn't break/ruin anything...sit there and pop the bubbles, then get up and clean up your mess then put everything back on the desk or whatever you had it on. Then what you should do is stop whining about falling on your bum.
FerrariCake 2
"Today, I pulled down a cable box from where I had placed it. I then picked it up and put it back. FML" Really? Your life is so fragile that you consider this an FML?
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Comments (48)
iankennedy17 0
#27 the FML is that he almost shit himself after he stepped on bubble wrap.
spazztcat16 0
#12 thank you :)
FarSide 23
If you are reaching out, trying to pull off your cable box and modem, I think you may be doing it wrong.
leadrunner751 3
you don't need TV when you have BUBBLE WRAP!!!!!!!!!!!
thealliance 0
FAKE!!!! Comcast installs it for you. Ydi for wasteing my time...
Designby12 0
You have an OPTION. When I got it done, they did the tv and I dd the comp myself.
foshizzle7 0
no, actually. ever since they did the whole "analog to digital" switch, you have to have a new cable box installed in order to get cable TV. you CAN have comcast install the boxes, but you can also DO IT YOURSELF. FYL for not knowing what youre talking about.
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foshizzle7: the analog to digital switch was only for over-the-air television. It did not affect cable, so if you already had cable you don't have to change your cable box because of this transition. Besides, a lot of cable companies already had digital channels for years before the OTA TV switch. Then again, Comcast may be slow in adopting digital cable channels, or the OP may have just upgraded to digital channels (requiring a new cable box either way), or a number of other reasons. Somewhat offtopic, it seems that the digital channels that I can pick up OTA are much crisper than on cable (I used to have Cox cable TV). One time when I was watching King of the Hill on cable, I found it also OTA, and the cable version looked "smudgey" in comparison to the crisp lines on digital TV. The cable version looked like a second-generation copy from analog OTA TV.
Andyangels27 0
YDI for bro getting directtv
cpederso123 0
I agree with #6
Unfunktional 0
you deserve it because you went with comcast
Loosechange 0
I don't see how is life is awful he just gets crappy cable, he's scared of bubble rap, probably is paranoid, Definitely does not have a girlfriend... Nvm buddy you are screwed and you life is awful.
SulfurPlague 0
Wait... so you backed out of your door, got startled by bubble wrap (...?) then lunged forward in shock and grabbed the nearest wire? This isn't making sense.