Today, I went to a fast-food joint and ordered off the $1.00 menu to save money. Five hours later I go to the hospital with food-poisoning. After a whole day of not eating, crapping, puking, having tests, and a bunch of IV fluids, my $1.00 burger ended up costing me $2,000 in bills. Really. 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 went out to eat to celebrate getting over the stomach flu. I hadn't eaten solid food in over a week, so I was really excited and ordered my favorite dish. It gave me food poisoning. FML
Today, I had a stomach bug, but despite it I swallowed a mouthful of habanero sauce on a dare. I ended up projectile vomiting on a wall outside, lost my sense of balance and fell over on the sidewalk, almost blacked out from the tightness in my chest, and had to refuse an ambulance that somebody had called. All for $5. FML
Today, I wrecked my car on the way to work, all because I could get free food from a restaurant for my team winning a game. My husband suggested it. Now I’m without a car, with massive hospital bills, all for the most expensive fast food. FML
Today, I went to the Cheesecake Factory and treated myself to an appetizer, an entree, a dessert, and some cocktails. The bill was higher than I expected and I was $50 short. I faked having a food allergy and had the staff call 911 so they could take me to the hospital, so I would get out of paying. It worked. FML
Today, after months of avoiding fast food, I decided to eat some McDonald's french fries. Though the fries were delicious, they were not worth the agonizing 15 minutes I spent on the toilet afterwards. FML
Today, after struggling with anorexia for months, I got food poisoning. FML
Today, I had horrible pains in my stomach area so I went to the doctors. They couldn't find anything wrong and sent me to the Emergency Room for X-rays. After spending the entire day in the hospital, they tell me I'm slightly constipated. I had to pay $400 to find out I had to take a shit. FML
Today, I didn't feel like cooking when I got home from work, so I decided to go to the local restaurant nearby and do my part in supporting small businesses. Long story short, I woke up later feeling like absolute shit. Hello, food poisoning. FML
Today, I took my boyfriend out to dinner to an expensive restaurant. He overate, and now I have to nurse him through food poisoning. FML
Today, I was fired from the restaurant I work at because I missed my shift. I missed it because I was in the hospital for food poisoning from the meal I ate at work last night. FML
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Shaiath 0
Ouch, that must really suck. D= Was it from McDonalds by chance?
seventeen_fml 0
sue the restaurant :)
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pinkdaisy 0
You get food poisioning from something you ate 24 hours ago, not 5 hours ago. So... No law suit for you, maybe you have something else or it was an allergic reaction. But either way it's impossible you can call that a case of food poisioning. Bullshit!
deceptivebeauty 0
#198: The symptoms from the most common types of food poisoning generally start within 2 to 6 hours of eating the food responsible. That time may be longer (even a number of days) or shorter, depending on the toxin or organism responsible for the food poisoning. For example: My mom got food poisoning within 3 hours from bad tuna she'd eaten.
BBP_fml 0
boy am I glad that the Canadian government takes care of our health bills.
Grimoire_fml 0
"Bread+tomato sauce+ground beef=enough for at least six burgers, less should be less than six bucks. #183 - 05/02/2009 at 10:17pm by GrapefruitZoe" Where in the galaxy do you live? Ground Beef around my parts(without counting in sales) is nearly 3.50$ a pound MINIMUM and can easily run up to 4$ a lb. Too top it off the main grocery for most of us poor folk around here only sales it in 2 or so lb increments. Though Chief's thankfully cuts in a sale quite often(offering beef at around 2 a lb) and tends to have it packaged in smaller 'friendlier' packages(of as little as .5-.6 a lb). It is cheaper to buy beef patties than it is to buy ground beef(which my mother finds utterly ridiculous). However, ground beef has many good uses. Pasta dishes can go a LONG way and require little beef/turkey/chicken/meat(compared to feeding everyone off hamburgers or some such). The real reason eating at McD's is because of pasta dishes. Spaghetti for example is 2.50 or so to make 1lb of it(including meat sauce). This isn't including the gas bill for running the burners. But I can usually make enough spaghetti to feed the family in less time to make enough hamburgers for all. Spaghetti is a great saver in bulk(its cooking time is pretty much the same whether you make 1lb or 2lbs, whereas hamburgers exponently increase since my pans can only hold 4 at a time at most(maybe five-six if I make tiny ones) and each batch takes 10-15 minutes). Same with most kinds of pasta that are mixed with meat. It goes a long way and is really cheap when compared to hamburgers(though the patties help, getting 20 quarter pound patties for 6'ish dollars isn't bad(It is a 5lb box, or 15+ dollars in ground beef)). However, OP, you really got bad luck this time around. Hopefully you can get compensated somehow.
crystalc0la 0
lol all the stuff on the $1 menu must have been outdated
erry_j 0
How could this POSSIBLY be a YDI?????
wordgirl 0
This is SO HORRIBLE! It totally sucks. FYL for sure.
KennysGirl 0
Sue those bastards! LOL!
theoldGP 0
#78: I have to comment on this because I saw your retarded comment. Did you think he ate the burger AFTER he went to the hospital? Are you ******* stupid? He got the food poisoning from the burger. oh my god.
MessOfADreamer 0
That really sucks. ...but I'm missing the part where 36 hours later is still "today."