Work: Time for a freakout

Time for a freakout

By Meg - 15/07/2011 22:24 - United States

Today, I was on the elevator at work. As it descended, a roach started scurrying about around my feet. I freaked out and started screaming, hitting the panic button without thinking. Now I'm facing a hefty fine for using the panic button when there wasn't a "real" emergency. FML

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By Anonymous - 31/03/2009 09:08 - Australia

Today, I accidentally pressed the panic button under the register at work. I didn't even know we had a panic button until the cops showed up. FML

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By arachnidphobia - 03/01/2010 03:22 - United States

Today, I was fined because my son pushed the alarm button in the elevator. Why? There was a spider in there. FML

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Send help

By Virginy - 01/11/2014 01:26 - France

Today, I got stuck in my building's elevator. I pushed the emergency button, which made a ringing noise. After about half an hour, I heard someone yell, "Stop pushing that button, my kids are sleeping." FML

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Introvert life

By CaBur - 19/02/2013 22:03 - United States - Los Angeles

Today, at work I got in an elevator to go upstairs. It wasn't until the doors opened minutes later and people stepped in that I realized I had zoned out and forgot to press the button for the floor I needed. I then promptly exited the elevator and waited for the next elevator to go up in. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/08/2011 23:06 - United States

Today, the workplace evacuation bell sounded. Out of panic after the recent earthquake, I ran down 21 flights of stairs, only to find out it was a false alarm. My legs are on fire, and I can barely walk. FML

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You ANIMAL

By ElevatorThug - 25/08/2009 09:17 - Singapore

Today, as I got into an elevator, I spotted a little old lady hobbling desperately to get on. I frantically tapped on the 'door open' button but the doors closed. I got dirty looks from the people in the lift, only then did I realise I had frantically tapped the 'door close' button instead. FML

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Those things freak me out

By Gilly - 02/09/2023 08:00 - United Kingdom

Today, I was cooking dinner when I noticed a cockroach on the kitchen counter. I reflexively tried to spray it with what I had to hand, which was window cleaner, but it seems to have pissed it off and flew right at me instead. I screamed and ran out of the kitchen, leaving the roach in charge. FML

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HeEeEeeEeeEeeeelp

By stuckinalift - 18/02/2011 01:31 - United Kingdom

Today, I got stuck in a small elevator. It started to violently judder up and down after I pressed the 'Help' buzzer. The man on the intercom wouldn't stop laughing at how my voice was jumpy from the juddering movements before he called for help. FML

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By tired - 16/01/2013 19:02 - United States - Boston

Today, I walked up sixteen flights of stairs to my room to avoid the lift lines. When I was almost at the top, the fire alarm sounded. FML

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By imeanreallytho - 11/09/2015 16:20 - United States

Today, I was in the bathroom at work. The lock on the stall door broke, and I couldn't open it. I was all alone and I started having a mini panic attack. After several minutes of frantically trying to fix the lock and hyperventilating, I realized I could just crawl under the door. FML

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Iamnotmyself 17

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:11

A roach! OMG. ok I got this, I'll press the panic button instead of stepping on it!

Iamnotmyself 17

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:21

You owned yourself bro!

Comments

borkchop1992 15

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:19

and who said people arent idiots

sunlovinmama 1

Saturday 16 July 2011 13:42

you should know you have to look at one in the mirror everyday

Glitterhinoceros 14

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:22

Roach- 1 OP- 0

iloveWAR 0

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:24

Talk about overreacting.

Cynical_in_SK 6

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:25

Wow...you people aren't very sympathetic. I admit hitting the panic button might have been a bit of an overreaction. That having been said...roaches are very large, disgusting and nasty looking bugs. I bet you all would have freaked out too...especially if you weren't expecting it!

iloveWAR 0

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:33

Just no..

Iknoweverything 29

Saturday 16 July 2011 7:57

actually, I would have never gotten on the elevator in the first place. It's not like they are hard to see in an enclosed space with nowhere to hide.

ADub55 0

Saturday 16 July 2011 8:22

I would have stepped on it. Problem solved.

ReynshineCutting 10

Saturday 16 July 2011 8:36

If it's in one of the corners on the side where the door is you wouldn't see it until you were in the elevator...

dreamering 16

Saturday 16 July 2011 9:15

Yeah, roaches is the nickname for crocodile.

RainbowHeadache 2

Saturday 16 July 2011 11:28

Actually, no. I had a big spider crawl up my foot & not a single **** was given that day. Cockroaches have to go places too, man. Maybe he had an important business meeting or was going home to get him some of his wife's fine cockroach pussy.

fthku 13

Saturday 16 July 2011 14:46

Sympathetic to what, exactly? Unless OP has a phobia, which is doubtful as she would almost definitely mention that in the FML, she overreacted. If she wants to flail around in the elevator and scream that's her business, but hit the panic button?

a_nutritionist 10

Saturday 16 July 2011 18:16

im not very sympathetic of someone who highlights the word "real" in "real emergency" as though they legitimately believe it was a real emergency. oh and who acts like a child when they see a cockroach?