Today, my 20-year-old son's external hard-drive stopped working. He's crying on my shoulder now, not because of the movies, porn, work, or music he probably lost, but because of the now irretrievable complete series of Digimon that he'd collected. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my son stuck coins in our DVD player. It would be cute if he wasn't 25. FML
Today, I found my son's porn. I would sit him down for a talk, but the genres were so disturbing that I'm afraid to even ask about it. FML
Today, I got a laptop for my birthday. I was thrilled until I realized that my mom had given away my old one without asking. 6 years of games, music, and pictures down the drain. FML
Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting all music, photos, and documents. I still had all my music on my iPod though, and went to sync it to the new computer. By accident, my younger brother pulled the cord out before it was done, deleting all 3,000 songs forever. FML
Today, I lost two terabytes' worth of photos to a friend's incompetence. He said he could save me some money and fix my slow computer for free. He ended up wiping the hard drive, and along with it, my photography portfolio from the last five years. FML
Today, my junkie son came to the house showered, in clean clothes, with sobriety chips from NA, full of apologies, and we had a good cry about his recovery. I went to the kitchen for tissues, for less than a minute, but when I got back he’d stolen my purse, television, and spare change jar with about £75 in it. FML
Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, my husband accidentally erased some pictures from our hard drive. No worries, nothing major: just everything from our wedding and the birth of our first child. FML
Today, I woke up to find out that my phone, which contained all of my pictures and videos from the past year, had completely crashed. Despite trying everything, I couldn't recover any of the data, even from the cloud backup. All those memories, gone forever. FML
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Top comments
ICastillo 25
Well who wouldn't cry digimon is awesome.
yoursucklives 36
i understand him. it's like he lost his childhood.
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UnholyAlpaka12 12
Digimon, best thing that involves fake and unbelievable animals or whatever they are.
hhhwat 0
Ha! Goodluck.
Mopmob02 18
Good lord OP, have you no heart? The man is hurting, and frankly I would cry my eyes out too if I had lost my collection of Digimon episodes. Hell I'm still trying to find them online; That was my ENTIRE childhood.
imavelociraptor 6
It's really not that pathetic. It's a nostalgia thing. He feels really connected to it because it was probably a big part of his childhood. I would just pat him on the back and try to find SOME WAY to get it back. Good luck OP.
imavelociraptor 6
I wouldn't know what you guys were talking about because i was an extremely sheltered child. My mom pretty much let me watch PBS and sometimes spongebob and other nicktoons show. I don't even think i was allowed to watch ed, edd, and eddy. I didnt watch pokemon, digimon, or yu-gi-oh. I never even watched naruto until 7th grade. Lol i still watch caillou anyway sooo....
juunebug 2
Eww, Caillou? Really?
freshlybreezy 15
Haha. I'll watch Arthur & Curious George every once in a while. :)
lhamil64_fml 5
He may be able to recover his files, depending on how bad the drive is damaged. Just google around for some solutions.
raykyogrou0 4
story of my life. my hard drive recently broke too, im still trying to fix it. but yea i dont go to my mom and cry on her shoulder. i just cuss and yell and be pissed all day.
reddudeover 2
I LOVE that all the digi-haters are getting thumbed down. Digimon instantly takes me back to 5th grade and old friends and memories. :'D
jodone 3
There are ways to retrieve files from crashed external hard drives, there is nothing to cry about.
ehllychan 10
He can just download it again online, though. No need to cry. I watched it all over again just last year, so I'm sure it can't be hard to recollect. Kudos to him, though. Also, I personally think you should be proud that your son is not ashamed of liking things and admitting to liking things regardless of silly social standards instead of thinking of it as bad. Not caring what "people" will think is very rare and useful skill these days. I'm glad to know your son is the kind of open minded person that is aware that what you like doesn't define how old or "grown up" you are, and that only little kids think they are more mature for not doing "kids stuff".