Today, my hair got stuck in my umbrella. I asked for help from passers-by, but all I got was weird looks as they hurried past me. 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, I was hurrying for the bus home from work. It was raining and I had my umbrella up. As I hurried by two women, I felt my umbrella hit one of them on the head. I turned to apologise and saw her standing with her hands on her newly bald head. My umbrella had lifted her wig off her head. FML
Today, I was walking through town with my hood up and noticed people giving me funny looks. It wasn't until I got home that I realised the umbrella I was holding over my head had been closed the whole time. FML
Today, at the supermarket everybody was staring at me. After ten minutes, I realized that my umbrella was still open. FML
Today, someone stole my umbrella. It was pouring heavily, and I was using it at the time. FML
Today, I spent 30 minutes fixing my hair to perfection, only to step outside and have it immediately ruined by a freak gust of rain and wind. The only thing I accomplished was looking like a disheveled bird's nest for the rest of the day. FML
Today, hoping to avoid the rain because I had just gotten an expensive perm, I ducked under an awning. At that moment, the store manager shook the awning, and about 6 hours of rain dumped on my head. FML
Today, a guy lost control of his umbrella in the wind, which then hit me in the eye, making me bleed. He screamed at me for trying to steal his umbrella. People laughed. FML
Today, a man held a door open for me while I fished my umbrella out of my very cluttered bag. As I was opening my umbrella, I turned to thank him for being such a gentleman. Instead, a tampon that had apparently wedged itself into the folds of my umbrella flew into his face. FML
Today, I was riding my bike on a sunny but windy afternoon. Coming up to an intersection, the wind switched directions and my wig blew off and landed in the middle of the road. At this point, I was almost at the other side but I had to turn around and grab my hair before the light turned green. FML
Today, while riding my bike in the rain to a counselling appointment about my depression, my shoelace came untied and got caught around my pedal, causing me to go flying off my bike directly in a huge muddy puddle right in front of a busy street of people. No one offered to help me. FML
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Top comments
george_s_4 32
I really hate people. Whenever I go to big cities when I try to help homeless people or help people who just need help I get weird looks and people telling me I shouldn't. As human beings we should help eachother out not ignore or get mad at people. It seems like a really simple thing to say but so many people don't get it
ABlindMan 17
I feel you OP, as a child I got caught in an escalator and people started stepping over me and walking away. It took about a full minute before someone bothered to do anything about it.
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Comments (57)
blackonblight 33
I really don't know how someone could help you, except perhaps by holding the umbrella. If you weren't being clear in how and what you asked, I'd say the odd looks were warranted.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
Years ago, as I was a teen, my foot got stuck in the crowded bus door as it was closing, crushing my ankle slightly but surely. I was in a lot of pain and begged a girl who witnessed my ordeal to tell the driver to re-open the door. She just turned away and ignored me. I was in the middle of the bus and had to shout out to the driver to reopen the door. I really thought that my ankle was broken, luckily it was just badly bruised.
jake131000 21
I'm not the nicest person, but if i see someone in a bad situation, i always try to help them. It's just the right thing to do. People are in to much of a hurry to do the right things.
ulissey_fml 22
( Bilingual pun alert, Canadians will appreciate. ) People in cities are so selfish . They could probably tell you had a simple umbrella malfunction, but ...Rihanna ciré.
hoosiergirl94 31
Every time I try to say hi to people or be friendly they look at me like I'm crazy. Now I don't like people
Fmlreadermostly 20
And then there are the people who set up false things to trick, scam, or hurt other people. This makes the desire that people may have to help just dissipate in a survival instinct. So you could call it selfish, yes. This is why I think that pranks should not be readily accepted in society.
guttedbrit 26
My hair gets caught in everything. I feel for you there, OP. The general public are selfish and ignorant, though, but I hope someone helped you eventually!
myabeth 11
people are assholes!
blastvortex 4
you don't suppose they might have confused you for a karakasa obake, would they?
itzzzzz_alpop 12
I'm sorry, OP. Those people were dicks. I would definitely have helped you - I know how frustrating it is to have something in your hair!