Today, my boyfriend threw out my old voicemail recorder, thinking it was junk. My father passed away years ago. I kept a recording of the last voicemail he'd left me on it so I'd always remember his voice. 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, my father got married. He left me a voicemail to tell me all about it. FML
Today, my boyfriend broke up with me by rapping in a voicemail. FML
Today, I ran up to my boyfriend and gave him a kiss. I didn't understand why the girl next to him got upset, but it turns out the voicemail I deleted by accident was him breaking up with me. FML
Today, my dad got a new phone and put me on speed dial. I have received several voice mails from him accidentally dialed. They are from him riding the train, in a meeting, having lunch, and, most recently, him taking a monstrous dump. FML
Today, I was going to record a song I wrote for my dad, who I haven't spoke to in a couple of years. After getting things together, I called my mom to let her know I'd be doing this. She informed me he died. A year ago. FML
Today, my boyfriend sent me a text saying to call him. When I did, it went straight to voicemail. It was a recording of him breaking up with me. He broke up with me over the phone, without even talking to me. FML
Today, after we got home from the doctor's office, my mom checked the voicemail. Loud and clear, we both heard my boyfriend's break-up message. My parents had already forbidden me from dating. FML
Today, I asked my father if I could have my grandfather's old vinyls, record player, and vintage tube radio. He told me he threw those out years ago because, "Who listens to that crap anymore, now that we have mp3s?" FML
Today, I took out my phone and realized I butt dialed my girlfriend and left her a 4 minute voicemail of me farting in an echoing toilet bowl. FML
Today, I found my 6-year-old daughter recording herself on her little tape recorder. When I asked her what she was up to, she replied in her cute little voice, "I'm recording myself so you'll have a souvenir when I'm dead." FML
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drayloon 50
This is why i hate it when people throw out my shit without asking first
katymack 11
This is actually really depressing. Sorry OP. I hope you can continue to remember your father in a different way.
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Comments (133)
AngrySailor 17
I'm not saying YDI but you should have made a digital backup. If you've ever listened to an old cassette tape you know all about "magnetic bleed". Assuming it was a tape style machine...
Cazz91 21
Your boyfriend shouldn't be throwing out your stuff without asking... Unless it was left overs rotting in the fridge.
worldclassrager 41
Never have someone throw something away without your permission...hope your mom has a recording.,,
perdix 31
"Voicemail recorder?" Shit, I AM old! Back in the olden days, we would call it an "answering machine" and call the recordings "messages."
bookshot 9
That was my first thought, I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Then I went on to "What a jerk, that sucks."
vanessa09865 23
yeah I'm 17 and that's what i still call it. Voicemail recorder just sounds too formal. I think voicemail and message are interchangeable, though I do still prefer message.
radiocaf 29
What I wanna know is, how can 400+ people think OP deserves this?
verithanti 4
I shared this FML with my partner, whose father was killed 2 years ago in a motorcycle accident. We both agreed that if one of us did something like this to the other, it would be considered justifiable homicide. :p
Rainadeer 2
He shouldn't have done that. He didn't mean to do it on purpose, I'm sure he wouldn't have if he had known. Tell him to ask you before throwing out anything of yours in the future. I'm sure you'll remember him anyway, but I can fully understand how upsetting this must be.
Mr_Mole 24
Sometimes you just have to let go. It's not nice that it was thrown away, but your dad wouldn't want to see you so upset about it. Make him proud of what you do with your future, not what you do to remember the past.
jamal0000007 4
who the hell votes ydi on this one... assholes
Grayness_ 26
You should've told him what that meant to you in the first place and he never would've thought it was meant to be thrown. Ygm ? Communication !!!