Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. 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, I was separating my notes into two piles: one to save for exam studying and one to throw out. I finished separating, picked up the junk pile, and absentmindedly shredded it. Afterwards, I looked down to see the junk pile still completely intact. Goodbye, passing grades. FML
Today, I found out that my entire class, me included, has to rewrite the painfully difficult midterm we wrote last week. All this because the Professor left the exams strewn across her desk. The cleaners thought it was trash and disposed of them. FML
Today, my mum is convinced I'm a hoarder. While I was out of the house, she went through my room and threw out stuff I "don't need." This included $500 worth of textbooks, a flash drive with crucial work on it, and my phone charger. FML
Today, my mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. FML
Today, my friend told me she'd lost her notebook filled with crucial notes for our finals. She asked if she could borrow mine and copy my notes. She then lost my notebook too. FML
Today, I asked my mom if she'd seen my financial calculator on my way out to an exam. She told me she'd tossed it in the donation pile that she'd taken to the Salvation Army this morning because it was "clutter." I needed it to take an exam required to pass the class, to graduate next month. The only place to buy a replacement was closed. FML
Today, I tried to get ready for a final. I had about six hours to study. My girlfriend decided to help by jabbering loudly in my ear about celebrity gossip, noisily cleaning the office and losing my notes, and getting in a screaming argument with her mom over the phone. FML
Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML
Today, I was taking the final exam for one of my classes. The teacher came over to my desk, grabbed my test and ripped it in half. Then he grabbed my hand and read the note I had written on it to remind myself to pay rent. FML
Today, whilst cleaning out his desk, my dad "accidentally" threw away my summer homework. That's 100 pages, over a duration of 2 months. School starts in 3 days. FML
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jvanevery 19
it's time to get that trunk that can be locked with a padlock and change the passwords on your computer
SilmeriaKai 1
I hope you made friends with someone in the class who took notes like you did. Maybe you can copy them in time to study them. Sorry to hear that. I hope all goes well.
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GrumpyGrinch 23
We hear about mothers throwing out important papers, deleting info on computers, destroying/selling collection items every so often. Makes me wonder - are they all stupid entitled brats? I should know the answer as my mom is doing the same regularly (except for collection items, I don't have any exactly for this reason). FYL, FML....
Colon_Man 17
And the mom who sold her son's '63 split window coupe for $100 because she was tired of looking at it. It was a $25,000 car.
cootiequeen4444 11
whom owned the title of the car? if the son had the title, the mother couldn't legally sell it as it is not her property. If it belonged to the father or mother than it was not really the son's. I don't buy this story. I mean the parent could try and sell it. but without the title or permission from the title owner, whomever bought the car would have to return it as it would be stolen goods... technically. doesn't matter if the person whom stole from you, lives with you.
band13geek 16
Parents... Sorry that this happened, OP!
redpanda39 10
My mom used to have this issue, she would try to "clean up" by just throwing everything away without looking at it or trying to find out if it was important or not. She finally stopped after she threw away my homework...a five-page paper that I had spent the entire week working on (this was in high school, so pretty standard assignment) and was due that day. Finally learned that if it wasn't hers, she needed to leave it alone, or at least just put it in the room of whoever it did belong to if it was left out.
Colon_Man 17
Your mom had to throw your papers out. See, her and your dad were getting frisky and... well, the papers had to get thrown away.
jvanevery 19
it's time to get that trunk that can be locked with a padlock and change the passwords on your computer