Money, Embarrassing and Jewelry: Butter fingers

Butter fingers

By two-hours-to-pick-up - 09/10/2009 09:46 - Australia

Today, I was in a fancy department store. I was wearing my travel backpack. I was turning around after paying at the checkout and my backpack hit a metre-tall display covered with necklaces. It went crashing to the floor, hitting another display table laden with jewelry that collapsed under it. FML

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By Anonymous - 09/12/2015 02:02 - United States - San Francisco

Today, as I turned to face the cashier at the supermarket, I managed to knock over an entire display of gift cards with my backpack. FML

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By Olerbia - 28/05/2013 07:11 - United States

Today, while working at Walmart, I was walking the sales floor and passed the end of an aisle. I saw a customer coming at me from the corner of my eye, so I jumped backwards. I hit a display case, and watched it topple over before turning to apologize to the customer. It was a ladder. FML

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By 6xrv - 08/04/2017 14:00

Today, while at the mall, I was traveling up the escalator on my way to the food court. When I neared the top, the handrail severely shocked me, causing me to drop a bag of China I had just bought, which fell to the bottom of the escalator and shattered. FML

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By shoes - 02/01/2010 02:45 - United States

Today, I was in a shoe store. I picked up a shoe so I could look at it, but when I put it back on the shelf, the whole shelf fell down, making all the shoes fall to the ground. The people behind the counter started clapping. FML

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By Dumped - 06/04/2017 14:00

Today, at work, I went to place a small item on a shelf. The shelf fell on me, trapping my hand. While lifting it, the top shelf fell against my chest and the products all dumped on my face. I then realized the shelves were only held up by zip ties. FML

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By Mary Anne - 03/09/2020 09:04 - United States - Denver

Today, while at work, I walked head first into the edge of a clothing rack. I was looking right at it. People saw. FML

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Whoops

By Teen - 24/01/2009 23:28 - United States

Today, I was trying on clothes in a store that had just screens set up for changing. As I took off the first pair of pants had I tried on, my foot got hooked in the cuff and I fell out in my underwear in front of the whole store. FML

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By rhartnett11 - 23/04/2011 06:12 - United States

Today, while trying on clothes in Macy's, someone decided to throw some shoes over the wall and into my changing stall. I now have a black eye. FML

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Cough up

By cain001 - 04/01/2011 00:56 - United States

Today, my boss and I were stacking boxes in the back room of the store. One of the boxes fell and hit me in the face, causing me to lose my glasses. My boss stepped on my glasses as she ran to check the box for broken merchandise, which I then had to pay for. FML

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By WesJaz - 08/01/2010 16:35 - United States

Today, I was working as a cashier and a woman brought up a suitcase. As I was ringing her up I checked inside like I'm supposed to and I very jokingly say, "Look at all the stuff you're stealing." She laughed nervously then hit me in the head with her heavy purse before running out of the store. FML

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bananapajama 0

Friday 9 October 2009 16:10

could have been worse. could have been a rack of dishes and glasses.

KitCath_fml 0

Friday 9 October 2009 16:21

Honestly, I worked a few retail jobs before escaping from that grind, and that kind of stuff happened all the time. As long as the customers were at least apologetic and didn't just swan off like "Oh well, your problem now!" we never got bent out of shape over it. Yeah it's embarassing, but don't lose sleep over it.

Comments

FarSide 22

Friday 9 October 2009 20:45

...And all your shoplifted booty spilled out of the bag, right? What stupid thing do you plan to do tomorrow... Your boyfriend?

evolveahimsa 0

Friday 9 October 2009 20:58

do not feel bad, jewelry is nonsense that provides no benefit to anyone except those whom are peddling it

Queuebert 0

Friday 9 October 2009 21:38

Hippies.

nevele11 0

Friday 9 October 2009 22:36

YDI for wearing one of those stupid ass huge backpacks. I hate when people wear those.

TROLLTURNEDGOOD 0

Friday 9 October 2009 23:25

I agree with every comment posted. سلام

MetalCraze 11

Saturday 10 October 2009 2:07

This is a fake FML because she would have been asked to leave the backpack at the front of the store the minute she entered so she couldn't steal and put it in the backpack. I used to wear a backpack all the time and they ALWAYS ask you to leave it

_neutrality 0

Saturday 10 October 2009 4:41

Do you live in Australia?

another_girl 0

Tuesday 23 February 2010 7:33

Uh no they don't. I live in Australia, and there is no way that happens. Mostly if they think you are going to steal, they just get staff to keep an eye on you.

Sukismama 2

Wednesday 14 September 2011 9:28

I used to wear a backpack all the time as well and no not every store asks you to do that, granted MOST of them do but not EVERY SINGLE ONE, so this could very well be true.

DigitalFusion 4

Tuesday 29 November 2011 3:47

Very few where I'm from make you take your backpack off. And those that do, I refuse, because they won't take responsibility if it's stolen, nor will they give you a safe place to put it.

dspadres 0

Saturday 10 October 2009 2:32

Wearing a backpack? Don't you women have enough space in those mammoth pocket-books you carry around?

fmlfmlfml15 0

Saturday 10 October 2009 3:27

oh my goodness, I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate those bags all the girls wear at my school. They are huge and tacky just plain ugly. I don't know why so many people find them appealing.