Today, the electrician came because our kitchen light has been flickering. After examining the installation, he screws the lightbulb tighter in the socket. My parents both are PhDs. 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 finally managed to get my electrician boyfriend to agree to replace our old lights, after a year of asking. Saturday, he couldn't be bothered and Sunday he came down with a mysterious man flu. This is about the 10th time this has happened. FML
Today, I found out how hard it is to actually change light bulbs. I work with electricians. FML
Today, I almost burned the house down while changing a lightbulb. FML
Today, whilst showing my kids how to replace a light bulb safely, I gave myself and electric shock, and dropped the bulb. Twice in a row. In hindsight I should have let my husband do all the DIY-based educating, since I now have a glass shard in my big toe. FML
Today, I tried to hang up a light and, in my clumsiness, got shocked. My dad started screaming at me for yelling out. FML
Today, I finally fixed the flickering light in my office by tapping it with a broom. Turns out, it wasn't actually the light but a family of squirrels having a some sort of disco party in the ceiling. FML
Today, my mom’s boyfriend insists that I can’t break anything by hooking up my new stove wrong, so I should just try until it works. Some trial and error and one electrician’s visit later, I now have a correctly hooked up stove which is now half broken. FML
Today, we finished redecorating my kitchen. My dad has been his usual OCD self about getting it perfect, so when he noticed a shelf was just barely not level, he decided to adjust the screws. It fell off and damaged my floor, so he threw the screwdriver and cracked a wall tile. Thanks dad. FML
Today, I asked my mom why the lamp in the living room wasn’t working. She immediately plugged it in, it worked, and she called me a complete idiot. I haven’t slept in a week. FML
Today, my lamp wouldn’t turn on. I spent a good 10 minutes looking for a replacement bulb before I thought to check if it was plugged in. It wasn’t. FML
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flounder1 0
They're both PhDs or they have PhDs?!
Tozi_fml 0
A PhD doesn't make you an expert in lightbulb matters.
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Comments (122)
my_fml_account 2
Nobody even made a "how many PhD holders do you need to screw in a lightbulb" joke? Fail, internet. FAIL!
fxdxhk90 0
People with PhDs have no common sense, that is why they spent 10 years in college, so this story is certainly plausible.
kerrygirl 13
plausible but pointless.....
perdix 31
Unless at least one of them is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, this FML is a dud. A Ph.D. confirms that you are qualified to make meaningful contributions to the state of knowledge in a very specific academic field. It doesn't mean that you've learned everything about everything. My brother showed me how to tie a Double Windsor knot when we were both undergraduates in college. The subject was not covered at all during my graduate studies.
ScaryyMary 14
Your brother? You mean you weren't spawned from some sort of toxic goo under a rock that got hit by lightning?
technicality09 0
why the whole debate over whether her parents are idiots because they went to college instead of learning things on the streets. this is just funny. that's all. it isn't even a cause to say FML. this could literally happen to anyone (although i'd hope that MOST people would check the light bulb first).
Shmeaty 0
can someone show me how his life is F'd in this situation? I doubt the OP's life is F'd cuz his parents are prolly filthy rich.
wh4t3v3R 0
Her parents are PHDs in psychology, he discovered that the flickery light was actually an experiment in the induction of psychosis on the OP. It was a grand success, but her unicorn told him not to share that part. Thats why her life is F'd.
bananapajama 0
A PhD holder doesn't necessarily make much more money than your average university graduate.
wh4t3v3R 0
FYL only if your parents had PHDs in electrical engineering or lightbulb adjustment. Otherwise who cares, 10years of specialized study in narrow field probably did not cover flickery lights.
DutchGunner21 0
I guess the D stands for Dumbass
FMLjudge007 0
So, what your trying to say is your a BITCH?
baby_gurl2405 0
kk well first off a PhD is a diploma of sorts............ and secondly it is not possible to BE a PhD... only possible to have one
einauglein 0
Ph.D. is an abbreviation of the latin 'philosophae doctor', or doctor of philosophy. Since you can be a doctor of philosophy, you can be a Ph.D.
youEQUALtosser 0
YDI. You clearly did not figure it out either.