Today, my roommate played a "prank" on me. He taped a length of clear cellophane at ankle-height just outside my bedroom door, causing me to trip and faceplant the floor, and busting out a tooth. I now look like a hick, and my roommate is refusing to cover my dental bills. 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 have to go to the dentist to get a tooth capped. Why? Because my room mate knows I sleepwalk and thought it would be funny to put a trip wire across the top of the stairs. It worked. FML
Today, I was cuddling my boyfriend on the hotel lobby's couch. We were not paying attention to anything but each other. Apparently, someone tied our shoes together. I stood up and faceplanted into a pool table. I'm now missing two teeth. FML
Today, I was moving out of my old place. While walking around to make sure I would get my damage deposit back, I stepped on my roommate's lipstick and smeared it all over the white carpet. Then I tripped on the phone cord and ripped the whole thing out of the wall. FML
Today, I went to a cosmetic dentist and got a chip in my tooth filled in that I’d had since I was 7. I went out later and my friend jokingly hit my head against the table a few times to make fun of me showing off my teeth. He slipped. I fell. I now have 2 chipped teeth and a broken nose. FML
Today, after a trip to the emergency room for severe stomach pain and almost passing out in the shower, I slipped on the wet bathroom floor and broke my two front teeth. FML
Today, my roommate decided to prank me by leaving a fake suicide note on the bathroom door and lying motionless in a bathtub full of water and red coloring. When I went, horrified, to take a closer look, he lunged at me and screamed. I was so scared I pissed myself. FML
Today, my roommate thought it would be funny to throw a brick down the laundry-chute. Guess who spent the night at the hospital. FML
Today, I was hanging out with my friends when I tripped and a chair rolled over my foot, breaking a bone. A friend, who didn't believe me, then dogpiled on top of me and laughed as I screamed. FML
Today, while I was taking a long relaxing shower, the shower head decided to fly off and hit me in the face. The dentist couldn't stop laughing. FML
Today, after months of telling my landlord about the weak floorboards in my living room, I fell through them as I was trying to repair them myself. FML
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Top comments
tiny1972 12
This is one of the cases I think suing is warranted. Creating a tripping hazard is not a prank. He's lucky it wasn't more serious.
Lebeaugars95 20
A tooth for a tooth, prank her back OP
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Comments (137)
rocker_chick23 27
If my roommate ever did.that and refused to pay the bill, I would kick him out. Tell him he needs to pay or he is gone.
JJ_86 22
He wouldn't have slept peacefully again if he was my roommate. Get him back good OP.
Emocuttergirl 13
Your room-mate sucks you may be able to sue him for the money though
kuzzy00 22
How could you not resist the floor with your hands? You face planted! That rarely happens! I would say that the Flatmate should cover SOME of the bills. Dentist bills are expensive. I would have thought OP has insurance??
glabberfasted 16
Not every employer offers dental coverage. For some it's too expensive.
kuzzy00 22
Yes but we aren't talking about employers. In nz where I'm from, it's more common to get personal insurance. It's also partially government funded.
chinaski7628 32
But OP is from the US. Private dental insurance can be expensive and is not subsidized by the government. Many people have dental insurance plans through their employers, but not all employers offer dental, so it wouldn't be unrealistic or unusual for OP not to have insurance.
R3TROxLOV3 32
No, the roommate should cover ALL of the bills. This entire situation wouldn't have happened, if not for a series of stupid decisions and actions taken by the roommate. If the OP was holding something, or even just walking into her room like she normally does, she might not have had time to react because there was no plausible reason for her to think that she might trip. The fault lies fully on the roommate. His bad choices caused physical harm to the OP, and the fact that he refuses to own up to his mistakes, doesn't negate the fact that HIS mistakes caused her to lose a tooth. Therefore, he alone is solely responsible for paying for OP's medical bills. If i were the OP, I'd try to talk to him about it again, and if he continued to refuse to pay the full cost of any bills from an injury that resulted because of HIS negligence, I would sue to recover the costs of any medical expenses.
sunnyray812 42
Couldn't you sue your roommate so he would absolutely have to pay for your bill?
weveallbeenthere 30
don't sue, not worth it. ask / tell him to leave. I've broken quite a few teeth, usually cost less than 500 to repair.
DevilsMetsGiants 30
$500 OP may not have which she would if the roommate gets taken to court
more4me 27
Depending where OP lives , it can cost up to $1500 here in California. So yeah, it is worth it.
jsolinsky 4
Doing what your roommate did is a criminal offense. You should call the police (don't use the emergency number) and press charges. Negotiating a payment for both your tooth and your experienced discomfort can come later.
tbor81 2
Pansies like you are exactly what's wrong with the world today, your parents failed miserably
askullnamedbilly 33
That's why I ******* hate pranks. Most people's idea of a prank seems to revolve around destruction of property, scaring the living hell out of people or causing either emotional or actual physical harm. As long as you film it and put it on Youtube, you're apparently not responsible for your own shitty actions.
tbor81 2
Pussy
Axel5238 29
Agreed pranks should be getting someone to believe something they shouldn't ( like the show scare tactics) or stuff that's harmless. The stuff on you tube is horrible, the people that buttered the floor and the other greasing the stairs. What would they say had their friend been seriously injured? Those people that do that say the person being pranked need to get a sense of humor. Kinda hard to find funny when I could've required an ER visit.
JonDG 12
what about the one where this person hid inside a compartment in an elevator and would have the lights go out and then jump out and scare the people, in the elevator, to death??
ViviMage 40
Sue your roommate or his homeowners insurance for the hazard
WhackTheJackal 22
Call the police.