Today, my husband and I went on vacation. We got lost and had to ask the locals for directions to our hotel. Neither of us could understand their accents, and we ended up wandering around blindly for hours until we made it back on our own. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got lost in a foreign city while on vacation and couldn't communicate with anyone, because I didn't speak the language and no one seemed to be able, or even wanted, to speak to me in mine. FML
Today, I was walking back to my hotel from the town square, and got lost. I turned back and walked around town for an hour, freaking out and panicking. When I finally found the hotel, I realized it was practically a stone's throw from where I was when I turned around. FML
Today, I got lost on my way to a wedding and yelled at my phone's GPS for giving bad directions. After 20 minutes of rerouting, I realized I’d accidentally set it to “walking mode.” I arrived 45 minutes late and sweaty in a full suit. FML
Today, I agreed to go on a last-minute road trip with my friends. Everything was going great until we realized we had no GPS signal in the middle of nowhere. We ended up following a "shortcut" suggested by a farmer and got stuck in a muddy field for hours, with livestock giving us judgmental looks. FML
Today, I returned to Germany for a break from my studies abroad. I got lost while out for groceries, so I tried asking a guy for directions. I went totally blank and strained to think of the right words, prompting him to mutter about rude foreigners not bothering to learn the local language. FML
Today, I tried to take a shortcut home. I got lost and had to ask a stranger for directions. They pointed to the street sign above me that literally had my street's name on it. FML
Today, out of desperation, I had to fight my social anxiety in order ask a stranger for directions in a new city. She gave me a detailed answer, and I thanked her, then walked the wrong way for 15 minutes because I was too embarrassed to admit I’d understood none of it past the first sentence. FML
Today, I went for a hike with the local search and rescue volunteer group that I recently joined. I got lost and spent 5 hours wandering aimlessly. FML
Today, my friend and I were getting picked up by his dad after a carnival. As I put my stuff in the back of the car and shut the door to walk around to get in the other side, his dad drove off, thinking I was in the car, leaving me to walk up their hill. It was midnight and I ended up lost. FML
Today, I went on a hiking date with my significant other. Trying to be adventurous and assertive, I suggested we take a shortcut through the woods. We got hopelessly lost and ended up spending the night in a deserted ranger station. Turns out, my idea of adventure is not quite as romantic as it sounds. FML
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Mafish 3
One word: map.
StanSmith_fml 9
One word: Waffles
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Mafish 3
One word: map.
crackz12 10
Or gps assuming your means of posting this while on vacation is a phone
alexup24 13
Two words: Google maps
StanSmith_fml 9
One word: Waffles
Drigr 9
One word : Vacation. unless the whole intent of the vacation was to hang out in the hotel.
twerp21 3
But then it wouldn't be as fun
lilpowers 3
Nobody uses a map nowadays. It's a gps.
Jakesterk96 8
Three words: GPS
nado13579 12
^ One word, three letters. Unless you say what GPS actually stands for.
llamafish 25
60 - Global **** Service?
ajourdhui 0
Two words: Smart phone
eddeeezzyy 19
6 words, 1 emoticon: Everyone shut the **** up please :)
nava1210 12
67 - one word: no
treefitty 2
Two words... C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!
GovernorGeneral 8
Mmmmmmm...waffles.....*drool*
RaggleFrock 13
1 word to rule them all: bacon.
btnhdude 0
77 didn't actually break the combo.
LightningCactus 12
Two words: The end.
GovernorGeneral 8
One word: everyoneshutthefuckupandstopcountingwords
skygirl333 3
One word: No
Idonebeenhad 17
Five words: Oh god wtf
blaackandprouud 20
Who gives a **** how many words: I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the MAAP!
thelastavailable 13
It was actually the twerp at number 42 who broke the combo.
uJelly24 1
I don't think that's one word.
Jiplo 18
One expression: sigh
lilpowers 3
One word that's better than any others. Penis.
friedchickenpie 14
It's always a good idea to think about these things beforehand. Couldn't you buy a map from a store?
Il_Maestro 6
I agree, not to mention the fact that this FML could've ended in a much more entertaining fashion. Couldn't you have added something about wild animals, angry hobos, or nude men with spears getting tazed in the park?
thatoneguy79 10
Or maybe being hugged by a stranger that smelled like pee, but with a local accent.
gurly98 13
Ydi bich
blaackandprouud 20
If there's a place you got to go I'm the one you need to know I'm the Map I'm the Map I'm the Map If there's a place you got to get I can get you there I bet I'm the Map!
Heinousness 0
112, good one.
blaackandprouud 20
Thanks.
chester75 5
At least your home safely, that's what really matter :)
OhDearBetrayal 25
After all the corrections made on this site, after all of the Grammar Nazi members to proclaim their beliefs... One always finds someone who insists on not learning the differences between your and you're.
thatoneguy79 10
They like to bitch about the grammar Gestapo, but don't bother to see what they are bitching about. A bit like yelling at a wall for being in your way while continuing to run into it repeatedly, over and over.
chester75 5
I'm aware of the difference, I was too tired to track down the sneaky apostrophe and shove it up there. However, I do see some poor confused soul had already shoved it up your ass :D
dreamcatcher11 4
But yet you were awake enough to 'track down the sneaky apostrophe' and show it into 'that's'? Good logic there :)
OhDearBetrayal 25
In the words of a broski, "Roasted!"
dreamcatcher11 4
Apparently I can't spell shove* :/
evilplatypus 39
Also, if you had written "youre" instead of "your," we could have POSSIBLY forgiven YOUR perceived ignorance. Sounds like YOU'RE just making lame excuses.
Fml_FTW228 10
Since we are all ganging up on this person... 3- You put, "that's what really matter." When it should be, "that's what really matters."
zamattiac 4
"after all of the Grammar Nazi members to proclaim their beliefs" hypocrisy.
OhDearBetrayal 25
132- I think someones going a little word-happy because it seems like you don't know the meaning of the word hypocrisy to be using it like that.
bizarre_ftw 22
102 - thank you, that was actually bugging more than the "your" I mean, if you mix up "your" and "you're" you're stupid, okay, that's not always your fault - however that doesn't mean we'll go any easier on you nor will the argument to fix you lose any fuel, but still Not putting in an "s" is just lazy and worthy of a slow death in a small cage hanging over the side of a cliff above aligators while small children pummel you with stones
shanemaximo 7
You couldn't get them to draw it out for you?
doctorhook86 25
These crazy Kiwis nevah lea'n...
amandajlucas2015 2
It is called vacation.. U should have just enjoyed the scenery instead of bitching about bein lost.. Look at the glass half full:)
yoursucklives 36
i'd really like to know where you two where wandering around. scottland maybe!?
Il_Maestro 6
Regardless of where they were, I can sympathize. Whale is one of the hardest dialects to understand.
evilplatypus 39
26 - They were looking for 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?
igive 29
*Welsh :)
jmelsha11 11
35- ESCAPAY. Kinda sounds like escape...
6969awesome 0
It says New Zealand
igive 29
it doesn't say on the phone app
ClassyCommando 13
80 - Yeah, it kinda does...
igive 29
not on mine. i don't use the iPhone
ClassyCommando 13
Fair enough.
hellonyancat 6
If you are going to insult a nation, at least spell it right. Scotland.
YummiGummi 0
You can READ! I can read! I can read!
Il_Maestro 6
35 - ha that's exactly what I was going for
Ventoso 0
HAHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE FINDING NEMO!!!
kayla_ann0o 9
Well at least you made it back and got to see all the town or place you were staying at.
stevenJB 25
I always learn to say a few basic phrases on the language of the place I'm going to avoid situations such as these...maybe you all should try that.
evilplatypus 39
They said the accents were difficult, implying they knew the language. Reading: it's our friend.
xStaciexLynnx 15
Not necessarily. The people may have been using broken English with a thick accent and that's why they couldn't understand. Like when I can't understand people from NYC. They're speaking my language but I have nooooo idea what they're saying...
ClassyCommando 13
8 said in the language of the place. Which, in the case of NYC is still English. So which other language would you want to learn a few phrases in before going to NYC?
xStaciexLynnx 15
You missed the point. I wasn't saying you should learn another language to go to NYC. I was saying you can be speaking the same language and not understand because of accents (the native people may have been speaking English to them and they didn't understand anyway).
thefmlman2011 37
In New Zealand they speak English, but they have this thick accent, and they pronounce things differently.
amyrules99 7
You didn't have a map or a GPS or something?
kayla_ann0o 9
Obviously not if she couldn't find her way back.
russian153 4
at least. you made it back!
live2swim 5
Think on the bright side- you got to explore the town :)
amandalillian 27
Exactly, some of the best times I have had whilst travelling is when I just got lost for a little bit... I mean mind you everything in moderation but still. The real culture is hardly ever in the guide book