Today, when my roommate asked me what was wrong, I told him that something I ate was making me feel sick. He works 10+ hours a day, and I didn't have the heart to tell him that the putrid smell of his feet was making me nauseous. FML
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I had a terrible stomach ache and had some pretty bad gas at work. I tried to head down to the basement for a while to allow my coworkers to continue in peace. About an hour after I came back up, my boss called pest control due to the horrible smell that "must be dead rats". FML
Today, while on lunch break, my fat, old co-worker walked into the break-room. I managed to block out his perverted heavy breathing, but had to leave when he began emitting a terrible odor that smelled like cheesy, sweaty molding feet. I barely held onto my lunch. FML
Today, my roommate stunk up the entire floor again with his rancid bathroom trips from spicy foods so much that I ended up wearing a t-shirt over my nose just to play video games in my own room. He gets offended when I tell him to open the bathroom window to vent it out. If only I owned my own home… FML
Today, I woke up feeling extremely nauseous. When I started to feel better, I felt like I needed to spit. I went into the bathroom and opened the toilet to see someone had taken a giant crap the night before and forgotten to flush. The smell made me vomit all over my feet. FML
Today, I threw up while on a road trip. My boyfriend asked what made me sick, but I didn't want to tell him that his belching the entire time smelled so goddamn bad it made me physically sick. FML
Today, at the coffee shop where I work, my supervisor smelled "something weird, like sulfur." I spent the next ten minutes pretending to look for the source of the smell with her, rather than admit that it had come from me. FML
Today, I got a new roommate in the dorms. When I got back to my room, I could smell her feet before I even opened my door. FML
Today, I’m stuck in a small office with a colleague with one of the worst cases of BO I’ve ever come across. He has already been spoken to about it, and I’m developing a nauseous headache from the stench. FML
Today, I spent most of the day with my stinkiest co-worker's soggy shoes level with my face. FML
Today, I had to train a new guy whose body odor was killing me. After he'd left, I had to run two industry size fans to blow the stench out of my office. FML
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
AnthraxPrincess 18
I think he would prefer you tell him than let him walk around smelling that badly. He could get fired if it's as bad as you say and customers smell it. Just be polite about it and he'll likely just say thanks and go have a shower.
tossaway2321 5
At least you can't blame him
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (72)
chosha_fml 27
Tell him, when you can, that he needs a shower, or some foot powder, but it was kind of you not to say it was that making you feel sick.
sstahpp 33
I'm sure he'd appreciate it more if you told him than some stranger...
John_in_Oz 12
"What's wrong?" "Nothing"
feven 32
If you can't tell him straight forwardly, you could just drop subtle hints like smelling his feet and throwing up. Hope that helped OP.
thesmeagol 22
I read this 'advice' and my eyes bled, hope that helped.
Jellysweetheart 23
That's really rude. How would you feel if someone did that to you?
Cass_x 22
This is the second stupid comment I've read from you. First commenting it's your birthday when it didn't even have anything to do with the fml, now this.. Great advice btw. *cough*
Dekat121 24
might not be good advice, but i did have a good laugh.
LoverWordsFood 27
I know your pain OP. One of my brother-in-laws has a horrible foot stench as well. He knows it, we know it, he just does nothing about it, even after we tell him about it numerous times about the stench (he clears rooms and thinks it's funny). The best thing to do is just to tell your roommate about the smell is to be straightforward about it. He may not notice it since he's use to his own smell or even care but just tell him. You live there as well, no reason for you to suffer in silence.
Steve95401 49
Paging Dr. Scholl, emergency.
vikky538 29
you are too nice...
romeonsingcross 15
I think that you mean nauseated. Saying that you are nauseous would imply that you are making your roommate feel sick.
Fillie 26
Nauseous has two meanings actually. One being what you said and the other in the sense that the OP was using it: affected with nausea; inclined to vomit: "a rancid, cloying odor that made her nauseous." Source: my dictionary.
brasiliano 16
#18 get with the times. The rules of using that word has changed and to use nauseous for both meaning is now accepted. like stated in the comment above me.
laden_swallow09 35
And how do you figure it came to be that way? By gross misuse. Just like how "irrespective" doesn't even make sense, yet because so many people don't understand how their own language works, it forced its way into paper. Your retort simply that it's in the dictionary is irrelevant.
Fillie 26
If we simply used words in their original way, awful would mean "to inspire awe " and prestigious would mean something along the lines of "deceptive". I'm sure there are more, but I'm not interested in searching to find them. The English language itself thrives on change and evolution. Saying that something is wrong because it has been changed is actually a pretty awful (used in the modern sense obviously) argument.
brasiliano 16
#39 does matter if it got changed due to misuse or any other reason. the fact that it's now changed is what matters. so being corrected on something that op was actually right about is stupid. like the comment above me stated. everything evolves.
sadistmonkey 19
It's not so much that specifically the English language thrives on change and evolution, it's that ALL living languages change over time, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it. Languages that have writing systems do tend to change slower than languages that don't, but the process isn't halted completely. The only languages that don't change are dead languages. (former linguistics major here)
anthonyksee 11
Buy him new shoes on his birthday
brasiliano 16
It's not just the shoes. socks and hygiene and some good powder is needed too.
patrickalamo 48
Dude get that roommate some gold bond powder