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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
asherah14 7
If your bf knew what was on the recorder but still threw it out - what an ass. You shouldn't be with someone so inconsiderate. If your bf had no clue what was on the recorder - it still sucks, he still shouldn't have tossed it without asking first but I can't help but wonder why you never told him how important it was, what the recorder had on it.
SmilieAKD 20
I understand your need to keep it. I have an old answering machine I don't use anymore that I won't throw out because it has message on it from my Grandmother not long before she died checking to see if me and my family got home safe from her house. I used to listen to it sometimes just to hear her voice again. I'm really sorry for your loss OP.
lwonderful 11
What a bunch of douches for clicked YDI
katejones 8
Call the company responsible for hauling your trash and find out where it was taken. Hunt it down. It's not gone before it is destroyed.
jramirez16 9
Definitely worth digging through trash for!!!!
YankeeBabii 14
I would have killed him and made him go get it back!!!
jramirez16 9
Just make sure he gets it back n then kill him :)
gangnamstyle_fml 5
On the bright side you won't be stuck in the past
grashopper8 7
His voice and message will always be in your heart. I bet you know every word.
iloveshim 14
Just in case you get it back http://m.cnet.com/news/transfer-memorable-voice-mails-to-your-computer-with-a-simple-audio-trick/57449803?ds=1 This will transfer voicemail to computer
voidsoul22 3
Some asshole stole my backpack when I was at an amusement park in high school. Not only did that have my diabetes supplies in it, but it also had a cellphone, which had a voicemail from my mom. The same mother who died barely a year earlier. That recording was one of the best traces of my mother's voice. But hey, I hope the thief enjoyed their new phone! Dick.
superman21_fml 19
What the hell is a voicemail recorder? An answering machine? Or something different? I've never heard that term before.