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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Top comments
Shaiath 0
Ouch, that must really suck. D= Was it from McDonalds by chance?
seventeen_fml 0
sue the restaurant :)
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Comments (469)
MrPoly 0
Yea, I agree. Sue the hell out of them and #19... where did he say that he got this from Mexicans?
JTGolant 0
Sue the bastards... You'd win, even with a sucky lawyer. Well. I don't know. BUT SUE THEM! That's what the US is best known for.
fbirem 2
Gotta love Scrubs Mr. Hogan: Well, who can say no to 49-cent cheeseburgers? Carla: Sure, but tack on the cost of medicine, your room, and pumping your stomach, and that 49-cent cheeseburger is gonna run you in the neighborhood of thirteen hundred dollars. Mr. Hogan: Heh. See, that's how they get you
rafaelaugusto94 0
sue them or never go to eat there
coside 0
It couldn't have been the fast food place, if you got food poisoning 5 hours after you ate at said fast food place. Food bourne illness takes 24 hours to set in.
KyleCaster 0
Oh man, I didn't believe it at first, but then you said "Really".
whiterabbit420 4
Actually, depends on which food bourne illness. I've definitely gotten sick from bad fish within 1-2 hours
dandymidori 0
To sue is just to help you get by at this point--I mean, food poisoning is food poisoning. You have the right to sue, but I think going through that and possibly failing is also a FML, so prepare yourself :/ Good luck!
danielleFML 0
that really sucks. i'm tempted to say YDI, but no. too much suck.
weinerdog 2
Your burger was probably made by those ex-Domino's workers. I hope you have insurance.
Fmylifeftw 0
wow this fmylife is complete and utter bullshit/a lie. all they do is put you on an IV to replace the electrolytes you've lost and to make you don't dehydrate. for the most part, you don't even get antibiotics since it is a food intoxication(not infection or poisoning as the mass media has you believe), and they send you home unless you ate raw chicken or raw burgers - in which you would have to be an idiot to not visible even see that in the food you were eating. and if it was only 36 hours, it definitely wasn't severe food poisoning and doctors definitely didn't run any tests. lol.