Today, I was washing my hair in the shower when the water went ice cold. It's 20 degrees outside and we have soft water which takes a longer time to wash away soap. 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, the water cut out while I was showering, covered in soap and shampoo. I had to rinse with freezing cold drinking water from the fridge. As soon as I'd dried off, the water supply got restored. FML
Today, as I was shampooing my hair in the shower, the power went out. Since my house has well water, no power means no water. FML
Today, I decided to lighten my hair. I applied the dye and waited 20 minutes. When I went to wash the dye out, the water wouldn't turn on. After my head started to burn, I called the landlord in a panic. Turns out there was a water main break and the entire city block doesn't have water. FML
Today, I was taking a shower, when my dad decided to turn off the water to the house, run upstairs, and throw a bucket of freezing cold sludge into the shower with me. He wouldn't turn the water back on for 2 hours. FML
Today, I was taking a shower for the first time in my new apartment. The shower head broke off the wall and slammed onto my head, while spraying water everywhere. I tried to stop the water, but only stopped the cold and got burnt by the hot. FML
Today, as I showered, I sneezed, hit my face on the wall, got shampoo in my eyes, slipped on a bar of soap, bashed my head on the wall as I fell, grabbed at the walls to stop me from falling and happened to turn off the cold water, scorching me. FML
Today, while taking a shower, I thought that the bathroom was extra steamy because of all the hot water. It wasn't until two-three minutes later when I put some shampoo in my hair that I realized I had forgotten to take my glasses off. FML
Today, I woke up at 3:00 am feeling freezing cold and soaking wet. It turns out that my dad had opened my window when I was sleeping, and rain water had been pouring in on me all night. My hair, face, pillow, blankets, alarm clock, and homework were all soaked as well. FML
Today, my home health aide doused me with what she considered to be Holy Water. It was bottled water. Turns out she was having a meltdown. It's a freezing day in New York City. FML
Today, I got a surprise when a drop of icy cold water hit the back of my neck. I wondered how this could be, as my dad had put in foam insulation on the pipes overhead in my room. It turns out there's one tiny spot that he couldn't insulate due to it being weirdly shaped and hard to reach, which is sweating now. FML
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hoopstar15 0
that's when u should step out if the shower and rinse ur hair in the sink
saaaammmmm 0
Kids and their hot water and reverse osmosis filters. You don't know how lucky you have it. Back when I was a kid we bathed in rocks, wiped our rears with broken glass and walked to school (uphill both ways) barefoot through a briar patch.
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FMLfan23 0
itsme88 0
Uh, if you have soft water, you don't need to use sooooo much soap.
Twi_lover_EC 6
Don't wash in the sink cause if u have no hot water in the shower ur not going to have hot water in the sink! Duh! Have u aver heard of Thomas Paine he wrote a book called COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read IT sometime!
boatkicker 5
Yes but see, washing your hair in the sink the cold only touches your head, but washing it in the shower your whole body is in the cold.
Twi_lover_EC 6
I know..... I learned that in school..... I was just saying some people need common sense. It is a joke my teacher made up.
Twi_lover_EC 6
It's O.K.. Thanks for saying sorry.
BritishHobo 0
Either it's an American/Alabama phrase or I'm just stupid, but... what the hell is 'soft water'?
Sirin_fml 47
Soft water is water that has a lot less calcium and other stuff in it than the "hard" kind; culture is not just a USA thing.
boatkicker 5
I think in this case they actually mean low water pressure though, because I don't think that soft water will take longer to rinse your hair than hard water.
alexandraa_fml 0
Im from Alabama, and when I say soft water I mean low water pressure.. :/
Shokz992 0
I think if you're over about 12 you should be slightly worried you don't know that there's hard and soft water...
WD_Stevens 22
Why? I can't see that it's a massively vital thing to know. I'm sure there's things you don't know that others would be appalled at.
frannyg 0
Um, this kind of thing happens to people all the time. It sucks, but we get over it. It's too mundane to be an FML.
pzluvbbydux 0
Isn't it hot in Alabama?
alexandraa_fml 0
Oh yes, because Alabama is exempt from the winter months. :P It got down to like 16-19 degrees a week or two ago, and yesterday it was 47 -49.. Usually its hot and humid as hell in the summer though.
boatkicker 5
16-19 is cold, and I will consider anything below 40 to be cold. 47-49 is nice though. chilly but with a jacket or sweatshirt, quite comfortable. Although I suppose if you're used to weather that's a lot warmer it'll be cold by comparison.
alexandraa_fml 0
The 47-49 felt so good just because the sun was out that day, so the cooler breeze felt good. If only it felt that good everyday. :)
Acuvue 0
YDI for showering
LOL97_fml 0
suck it up i was in a freezing cold rain storm in short shorts and a bikini top for 2 hrs how dya think i felt
taybaybayy 0
like a tool? hehh.
Yarrachel 16
Like a BOUSE!!!
saaaammmmm 0
Kids and their hot water and reverse osmosis filters. You don't know how lucky you have it. Back when I was a kid we bathed in rocks, wiped our rears with broken glass and walked to school (uphill both ways) barefoot through a briar patch.
Yarrachel 16
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
Austino713 0
That sucks for you