Customers, Awkward, Liar and Work: Brain freeze

Brain freeze

By Anonymous - 02/06/2009 23:13 - United States

Today, I was working my job as a waitress near my college. I handed a customer her check, and she noticed that I had added her bill wrong. I apologized, and she pointed to my "student" labeled nametag, asking what I was studying. I said English. I'm a math major. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/01/2011 11:07 - United States

Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items which totaled $89.68. She paid with a $100 bill. I gave her $11.32 change. She angrily gave back the extra dollar and complained about "schools nowadays". I'm an AP Calculus student. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/08/2010 05:52 - United States

Today, I was working at my job as a cashier, checking out an elderly woman's groceries. She was very nice, and we chatted for a couple minutes. Once she had paid, she leaned close to me and said, very politely, "I'm so so sorry that I mistook you for a girl at first, young man." I AM a girl. FML

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Everything is clean

By Anonymous - 17/01/2020 18:00

Today, I went to the bank to deposit the cash I made waiting tables. While the teller was counting, I apologized for having so many small bills and she said "It's OK honey, I helped another one of your kind just the other day. You're lucky we take your dirty money." She thought I was a stripper. FML

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Assumptions

By adriana - 01/09/2009 16:48 - United States

Today, I went to the bank to deposit the cash I made waiting tables. While the teller was counting, I apologized for having so many small bills. She said "It's OK honey, I helped another one of your kind just the other day. You're lucky we take your dirty money." She thought I was a stripper. FML

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Close, but no cigar

By RIPcareer - 18/10/2015 19:18 - United States - Ellicott City

Today, after submitting my college application, I noticed that I mistyped "math enthusiast" as "meth enthusiast". FML

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By insomnia - 22/12/2011 15:23 - United States

Today, I was at work handling the cash register. It wasn't working correctly, so I apologized to the woman I was waiting on for the delay and explained, "The cash register's being a little retarded today." Then I noticed her clearly "special" adult son standing behind her. FML

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By NoOrdinaryNZer - 30/10/2016 11:09 - New Zealand - Christchurch

Today, an old man, while I was working, asked me to spell average-length words. Confused, I refused. Turns out I was apparently taking too long counting the large amount of small change he'd given to me, and he assumed I couldn't count or spell. I study law, and I've learned basic calculus. Welcome to retail. FML

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Slipping up

By englishfail - This FML is from back in 2010 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML

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By Anonymous - 03/06/2019 12:07

Today, while working as a waitress, an attractive woman sat at one of my tables. When she paid, I decided to be bold and write my number and "Call me" on her receipt. She put in a complaint to my manager. FML

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By Links - 20/11/2009 07:26 - United States

Today, a McDonald's employee had to correct my math after counting out $2.37 in change. I'm in AP Calculus and am currently learning how to find the derivative of an inverse of a logarithm. FML

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div01 2

Wednesday 3 June 2009 9:53

Honest mistake.

skittle68 0

Wednesday 3 June 2009 9:57

LOL I'm great at calc but not at math in my head. It could happen to anyone :)

Comments

SarahB0184 0

Wednesday 3 June 2009 23:30

I was a math major too. Don't worry about it. Even the Dean of the Math and Science Department at my University (who also happened to be the Statistics professor) says that the higher you get in math the more of the basic stuff you forget. =) All of my math professors would tell us to count our points every time a final was handed back, just to make sure they added right. Almost every test there was at least one person who had their points miscounted. =)

LiangPeiJie 0

Wednesday 3 June 2009 23:59

Everyone makes mistakes, U were probably not thinking straight or distracted.

darkjediben 0

Wednesday 3 June 2009 23:59

whoops commented on the wrong FML. These things are linked up wrong!

emodude44 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 1:19

People make mistakes Grow a set and stop crying about this its not an FML, its just u being miserable

lalalala1234 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 2:05

lmao that's hilarious i can totally see me doing that well, your life isn't ******, it was just one incident and you'll probably never see her again.

1Corinthians13 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 3:00

haha...dont be soo hard on yourself:-)

peaceoutt13 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 3:03

haha its cool dont sweat it. (: we all make stupid mistakess.

mexi_gurll7 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 4:49

I don't get it ???

mattmag 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 4:57

Another math major here. People don't realize that we spend most of our time proving stuff, not just doing a bunch of calculus. Calculations are just an aspect of proofs. And I've had plenty of math professors who screw up their addition all the time. One even added up my test grades to give me a final grade of A instead of the B that it actually was.