mac cayne
Strasbourg, France
Today, it's been a week since I found an egg in the street that had seemingly fallen out of a nest. I'd bought a cage and an expensive incubator lamp to save it. It's thus been a week that I've been trying to save a mouldy old potato. FML
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iLike2Teabag 27
Aww. It was nice of you to care though :) you'd make an egg-cellent parent. And no good deed shell go unrewarded.
95DeVille 13
That's not very eggciting! I guess the yolks on you.
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zandalee 20
OP you really need a hobby! It's lovely that you care, but seriously?
asnakelovinbabe 16
How does wanting to help a small creature in need translate to having no hobbies? What??? I'm still baffled at how you could confuse an old potato for an egg though! Bird eggs are hard and solid, reptile eggs are soft and leathery but still distinctly egg-like in form. Plus if you didn't have any idea of what kind of egg you had, how did you know what equipment to buy? All eggs have very specific temperature ranges and humidity requirements. There is no universal incubator lamp that is just going to incubate any egg to perfection. I still give you credit just for trying OP. You obviously care enough to try to help even a little egg and that's more than most people can say.
asnakelovinbabe 16
Also just for future reference if you have (or think you have) an egg and you want to know if it's healthy and alive, use a little keychain flashlight pressed against the shell in a dark room. This illuminates the inside of the egg and in a good egg you can see veins/embryo. It's called candling, and I am now picturing someone trying it on a moldy potato.
potato_meat 12
OP is ****** weird. Get a job.
iLike2Teabag 27
Aww. It was nice of you to care though :) you'd make an egg-cellent parent. And no good deed shell go unrewarded.
extrasnipes 22
I almost cracked up reading that
feven 32
This story would have been cooler if a cali condor or something hatched out instead.
kaablam 17
#46, then it wouldn't be a FML.
patrickalamo 48
Like a snake...
cometkeeper00 3
I think that the rules of this website saying that we have to pretend that this isn't fake or ridiculous are insults to real fmls
LeFrogDog 27
looks like op shelled out money for nothing
miianah1 22
OP should've egg-samined more carefully. No but seriously, how could a potato be confused with an egg? And I would've just tried to somehow get it back up onto the nest instead of shelling out all that money -pun intended ((; But none the less OP tried to a good deed and what he/she did was sweet.
pooldude 24
Now there's a word play i like!! Made me chuckle
Smoothiemuch 8
Egg-xcuse the puns OP
BoltTheSuperdog 22
Well then I guess this spuds for you, OP. At least you had the heart to try to save it!
miianah1 22
Sorry, 72 beat me to it.
DarksideDoll 31
Agreed! Your heart was in the right place OP. :)
95DeVille 13
That's not very eggciting! I guess the yolks on you.
abhi95 31
You're the embodiment of ignorance my friend!
Kat_Styles 15
You're the embodiment of a heartless stranger who can't see when some tries to do a good deed.
PANDALEGIT 8
Pot calling the kettle black. Fact that you left that comment means you're ignorant.
Rainhawk94 27
#62 eeehh not really
kirrra 11
pressed thumbs up by mistake! damn it
stevothedevo 25
Pressed thumbs down on purpose
AnOriginalName 19
If you believe enough, that old potato can still turn into a cute little sparrow. Or mild and bacteria. Actually, yeah. Most likely mild and bacteria.
jerryj 27
Did your auto-correct really just change "mold" / "mould" to "mild"?
AnOriginalName 19
Yes, yes it did. Dammit! At least now I know that my autocorrect doesn't have a dirty mind.
KingLewisII 34
First it's a pigeon then it becomes a sparrow.
tomatosz 23
Nah, the other way around, obviously.
Juicenub 25
What's so bad about that? That potato might be going places.
savs11 13
Boil it, mash it, and then stick it in a stew
Mauskau 36
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.* What's taters, eh?
jo0owe 9
Nice Lotr reference xD
Mauskau 36
People that are downvoting it clearly haven't seen it. YouTube "what's taters". I remember seeing it about 10 years ago.
CloudBustah 20
#60 YouTube came along in 2005. Now is the year 2014. Unless you're breaking the laws of space, time and continuity, I see no possibility of you watching that video in 2004.
mif_fml 27
"About 10 years ago." Let's cut her a break #70.
Kevlar_burrito 6
#70....lotr came out over 10 years ago.....you know....the thing she's talking about
radianceepica 9
I can't believe people down voted this and instead up voted horrible puns.
swhi12000 7
It's a lord of the rings reference. Sam says"this would go good with some nice taters" to which gollum replies with "what's taters, precious?" followed by sam saying "taters, you know, po-ta-toes, boil them mash them put them in a stew."
auzziegirl1938 22
I don't know why people are saying ydi... You cared for a (potential) unborn creature! You go man!
Durantye 8
Probably cause people are confused at how in the nine hells someone mistakes a potato for an egg especially if he seen up close for extended amounts of time.
Uglyfeet 23
I was expecting a lizard, a dinosaur maybe, but not a potato.
kl08 12
think you've got bigger problems then this going on op. please share.
LexSwift 17
I'm sorry, OP, but I laughed really hard at this. (Thanks for the laugh, by the way. I haven't been feeling too happy lately, so it was nice to laugh.) I'm glad there are people sweet enough to care, though. I know too many people who would just kick it to the side or step on it just to be malicious. You did a good thing even if it wasn't an egg, because if it had been, that little bird would have had another shot at life.
Mauskau 36
You have a nice.. neck? :) be happy!
False_Stupidity 42
In every life we have some trouble, When you worry you make it double, Don't worry, be happy...