Today, I got home from work to find my wife asleep in her easy chair with my two year old son asleep in a pile of torn-up paper. I soon found out it was my 1960s collection of a Superman comic book series that I inherited from my dad. It was worth well over $2,000. 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 came home to find my entire action figure collection was gone. My parents told me I am too old for toys, so they opened all of the packages and donated them to Goodwill. I had an original Boba Fett, and my entire collection was worth more than twenty thousand dollars. FML
Today, I got home and found my kids playing with my coin collection. My wife told me to stop being grouchy because it’s not like they’re silver and gold. No, but they were all mint condition, some of them very rare, and every scratch the kids just put on them has halved their value or worse. FML
Today, my little sister decided to color-in my favorite black-and-white comic book. It was worth over $200. When I told my mother, she said, "Oh that old thing? I thought it was a stupid coloring book you were too stupid to color." FML
Today, my husband and I have been trying to buy a house and start a family together. Now I find out that he just spent $5000 on comic books. 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 came home to find that my mother had sold all my valuable collector coins for cheap at a local shady pawn shop to buy herself a TV. The coins in question were worth enough to start a business. FML
Today, I was at work when my mother called. She gave me great news that she had finally cleaned out my room and all those "old and useless" books that I had in there. Those "useless" books that she had just trashed were all antiques and worth about $500 each. There were 27 books in there. FML
Today, I discovered that my parents rooted through our house looking for junk to sell at a garage sale. They sold all of my books from my bookshelf. When I freaked, out my mom said 'well you never read them'. There was about $300 hidden between the pages of those books. They made $60. FML
Today, my mother sold my extensive Star Wars collection, and I cried when I found out. I'm 46. FML
Today, I got home and found all my things thrown out into the yard, including the stuff from my mancave, which I spent thousands of dollars on. Apparently, my girlfriend stopped for a visit while my wife was home. I’d stupidly given her a key. Turns out my wife called out sick today. FML
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Cashtangoteam 10
Well isn't that just Super
theunwiseone 4
Maybe u should have hidden it away better. Tut tut
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bshinn4884 9
Easy fix. Just have Superman fly around the earth backwards to turn back time before the comic was destroyed. See? Easy
BbqKirbyAnn 0
It's better than my dads situation. He had several collection when he was younger, had them put away so they would get thrown out or messed up and his mom (for no reason) went through his room and threw them all out. All of them. Said she didn't see why a boy should collect comics...every once in a while he finds price magazines and looks em up. I coulda been wealthy. damn women.
Mourningstar 4
Do the same with her purses and shoea
hoonyer 17
nooooooooooo
roseXthorns 8
I would have cried. I'm in love with Superman
Calyx_fml 22
Maybe his wife tore them up.
hiLife808 0
Half the people posting on this FML must not have kids. OP should have kept his "valuable" comic collections in a protective case or somewhere his child couldn't reach. As far as the mother is concerned, she could have prevented it from happening by keeping a close eye on her son but then again being a parent is hard work. There are no breaks because it's a 24/7 job. It's harder to be a stay at home mom than a single working human being.
alexFYL 11
Probably should have kept it somewhere the kid couldn't get to. YDI.
withasmile 3
My comics are in my attic. Never leave anything you care about around children until they are at least in high school. By the time you go to the bath room it van be destroyed.
RensM 22
2 year old kid: 1 vs. man of steel: 0