By lauren555 - 27/03/2009 03:38 - United States

Today, after finishing a huge French essay, I realized my printer wasn't working. So, I emailed it to a guy in my class to print and then give to me. When I get to French, he said he had already turned his in early and never got my email. It turned out he used mine. I got an F on the essay. FML
I agree, your life sucks 68 918
You deserved it 18 332

Same thing different taste

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cprompt 0

WAYS TO AVOID THIS SITUATION: Take the paper with you to school, print it out at a lab. Take the paper with you to Kinko's, print it out there. Finish and print your paper earlier than the night before. Email your paper to French teacher. Go to a neighbor's house, print it out there. Email it to a REAL friend outside of your class, ask them to print it out and get confirmation that they are. WAYS TO SCREW UP: Email it to a guy in your class and assume he'll get it and dutifully print it out. Don't follow-up over the phone or anything. You're welcome.

So when you showed the teacher the sent email... What did he say?

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rawberry22 0

print out the email. show your teacher. end of story

theoldGP 0

wow. you can totally prove that it was your essay. and number 2 - this is some random guy in your class. why would you ever trust your work with him? for both of the above points - YDI. like totally. ahah

savy_77 0

How about TELLING YOUR TEACHER? There are so many FMLs that are like this, they just let it go. NO you go and SHOW EVIDENCE. Print out the email and show...you better have kept it in your sent box.......................

starshine3987 0
anonymousssss_fml 3

Turn him in! He shouldn't have done that. Explain what happened to your teacher. Good luck!

You should have emailed it to the teacher But since it's too late... you should have told the teacher... "That was my essay, I sent it to him to get it printed..." Then show the teacher the proof by opening your email and showing the sent items, with the time/date stamps on it.

Maybe next time you should put it on a flash drive, or e-mail it to yourself, and print it out EARLY AT SCHOOL. YOU SO DESERVED THAT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So everyone's said - YDI if you're too stupid to show the teacher proof it's your essay. But I wanna add - I hate FMLs like this, where the situation's completely fixable and the author's too stupid/shy/whatever to fix it.

Why didnt you just email it directly to your teacher? Sending work to someone in the same class is never a good idea

WOW that's shitty... but you can always show your email to the teacher, as proof that it's your work and not his.