Smooth sailing

By Anonymous - This FML is from back in 2012 but it's good stuff - Puerto Rico

Today, I was messing around in computer class when somebody called my name from the hall. Trying to be smooth, I tried rolling my chair backwards out into the hall. The wheels wasted no time jamming and sending me crashing face-first into the floor in front of everyone. FML
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unknown_user5566 26

Wait. You were rolling backwards, the wheels jammed, and you somehow ended up falling face-first on the ground? Maybe I've had one too many glasses of wine and my brain isn't functioning properly, but if the momentum of the chair was going backwards and the wheels jammed... wouldn't you just stop rolling?

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Shrike 23

Um... no... I've done the same thing before, just not being a douchebag by trying to impress people by it. Isn't "falling face-first" a figure of speech anyway?

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unknown_user5566 26

Hm, I'll take your word for it. I was just trying to picture the scene in my head, and couldn't quite figure out how backwards momentum would somehow fling the person forward at such low speeds. Damn wine. As far as the 'figure of speech' bit, I suppose it could be, but when telling a story online I would assume the writer would use literal terms in order to better convey the happenings of the "FML".

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Gigiluv28 0

Smooth my friend! Hope you're ok though! :) but trying to be smooth never ends well!!!

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dilbertp 2

Unless you were seated backwards in the chair, you would need to do some pretty funky calisthenics to smash your face going backwards...sounds like an ill-conceived contrivance

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fudanivieirack 0

If you were rolling backwards, how did you land on your face?

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annaliesalayoshi 13

i know stein from soul eater is awesome and all but unless you have a loose screw and want to disect endangered animals you shouldn't be rolling in a chair especially if you're trying to impress someone from a hallway

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DURPINATOR3000 6

You find that something that would work perfectly at any other time, screws up when it needs to work

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Nyo84 8

Saw my joke had already been done, edited it out

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