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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
kolKatay 0
They both are Pretty Huge Dicks? Yeah, sounds like it.
Palx 0
I'd like to know... In what is it an FML? Come on, her parents can't twist a lightbulb... So what? She idn't even involved in the FML
muichini 0
I notice the higher the education a person has the stupider they seem to be. my friend who has a ged that got a associates from the community college, is smarter then my friend who got his ba from a 4 year top 10 school. with simple things like this
ekid2k 0
They have PhDs, that means they can afford it and are more concerned with their areas of expertise than lightbulbs. I don't see what the problem is.
panthera_fml 0
why did you not fix it yourself?
couny343 1
they are phds? dont think your gonna get 1
Sgt_Isaac 1
How many PhD's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 0
monkey314159 0
It's the first thing you check when it's flickering... Like, hey my car won't start. You wanna check if you have any gas.
telfie 0
I lol'd hard. Well, being book smart doesn't mean you're common sense smart, after all. In fact I would wager that 95% of the time there's an inverse proportion thing going on there.
zen_fml 0
I really have a theory that the most intelligent people can also be the most vague. my mum is studying a PhD at the moment but she will ask me three or four times what i'm doing on the weekend.