Today, my brother deleted all traces of the novel I've been working on for three years from my laptop. The reason? When I was born I "stole all of Mum and Dad's attention." He's 24. 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, after 3 years of writing a murder mystery novel that I was really proud of, my dad stole my notebook. He mistook it as my diary and turned it in to the police and apparently I can't have it back because it may be used as evidence. Some of the stories were inspired by real events. FML
Today, I woke up from a nap to find my little brother playing some games on my phone. A few hours later I come to find he had deleted all 500 pictures from my trip to Europe last month. He needed more space to download the games. Mom says he's too young to understand what he did wrong. He's 14. FML
Today, my 24-year-old, unemployed brother stole all of my food money and went out with his friends. His punishment from our parents? He has to pay me back when he gets a job. My stomach has to wait. FML
Today, my little sister got mad at me because I wouldn't let her read my IM conversation. I took a nap and when I woke up, my laptop was gone. She took it on a trip to her grandparents' house, six hours away. Nude pictures of me and my paper due tomorrow are on the laptop. FML
Today, I found my brother tampering with my laptop. He had changed the entire settings, in ways I don't even know how to fix. I finally had to get my mom to threaten him to change it back to its original setting. I'm 15. He's six and can barely get dressed by himself. FML
Today, while having a sneak through my brother's browser, I found a bookmark for a Google Docs file. It was a short story involving him horrifically killing our entire family. It ended with the words: "And that is what happens when people don't respect the author's privacy." 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, I found out that while I was at college, my brother downloaded three terabytes of porn on my laptop and blamed it on me. My parents believed him. FML
Today, I fell asleep while using my laptop. The next thing I know, it's 8am and my dad is screaming at me for posting "u skank-ass cunt-face" on my mom's Facebook timeline. I never made that post, but he won't believe me. My asshole brother, meanwhile, can't stop smirking at me. FML
Today, my brother stole my hard drive and wiped it. My hard drive had a 10-page school project on it. The project is due tomorrow. FML
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redbluegreen 41
In return, put a pillow over his face because "He's sucking up all the good air. "
aback 5
Delete that ****** from your life. If he hasn't got over it by now, he never will.
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tuntis 0
FYL, http://mozy.com/
boatkicker 5
If it was 3 days worth of novel that got deleted, that's excuseable. Three weeks worth? thats fine too. I backup monthly, on the first of the month. I know what its like to lose an entire months worth of work. Computer crashed on the last of the month, the day before I was going to backup my stuff again. Lost 89 pages of one novel, plus the first few hundred words of a few other new ideas i had kicking around. Even if it was 3 months worth of work I'd understand. I know some people that back up every 6 months. But really, if you dont back up at least that often then my pity level drops. However, if it's your first time I sorta understand. We learn best from experience. I started backing my stuff up after my cat deleted one fo ym stories prancing across teh keyboard when I was 12. OP: that sucks. How much was it you lost, anyways?
iGreen_Day 0
Really? I hope you put a cap in that bitch's ass, IRA style >.>
drimpossible 0
What, you mean blow up a church?
daydreambeliever 0
Only if it's Protestant.
hbk2369 0
Use a program like Recuva to try to recover the deleted files (if it's a PC).
Westy543 0
@72: I concur. Use Recuva and get it back.
manoverboard 0
That's why I put my book on fictionpress.com. :]
boatkicker 5
The problem witht hat it is that most publishers will not look at something aleady pubished on the internet. It's not a formal publishing, ut its still there for people to read, and for searches to index, etc. If OP was planning on publishing fictionpress is not the way to go. If you're not planning on publishing and just want to write it then by all means, go fictionpress. I go there now and then with short stories. :)
Qup 0
BACKUP anything of any importance.
fashionistabec 0
You deserve it if A) You arn't smart enough to backup on an external drive and B) You arn't smart enough to know that anything can be recovered.
elliekinslurvsya 0
You're one to talk, AREN'T you?
fashionistabec 0
While aren't is the correct conjugation of the words are and not, arn't is a common shorthand version of aren't and in my field of work I use shorthand constantly throughout my work week. So, when I am in a hurry I sometimes use shorthand instead of the full word, even if unintentionally. I apologize that you think that the use of shorthand is akin to not backing up an entire novel where someone else could not destroy it and also not having the good sense to even search for "file recovery".
ohnoyouDINT 0
Funny, omitting one letter to save time, but posting an entire reply to justify doing so.
fashionistabec 0
On that instance I did not do it to save time, I did it out of habit.
MSuzanneL 0
Face it guys..you can't win. This chick's got you beat
dienda 0
YDI it for stealing your parents' attention. He was there first.
Austinw80 0
Hmm.. Someone needs to make a Mediafire account.
summer66_fml 0
WOW.......that SUCKS!!!! i sre you can find some computer savvy guy to retrace it on your harddrive