You expect the Marines to **** you up. Not the same with your bed.

Why does a FML have to be funny?

Hurting one's back is an FML as far as I am concerned. So, wtf? People on here act like know it alls that wouldn't be crying like little girls if they had a serious back injury. I don't know if this guy's injury is necessarily serious, but slamming him for complaining about it is not only kind of cruel, but stupid. Learn some empathy.

I don't think they're dissing the back injury itself (which can be a very serious thing), just the fact that he's comparing it to being in the marines. They have little relevance to each other.

Ah, the glories of childhood...

Actually it is relevant... He didn't sustain injuries in the Marine Corps, but while sleeping in a bed he hurt his back. It makes sense and is relevant.

The OP could've also gotten older since being in the marines too. In those four years, there's plenty of times they might've been hurt in other ways, but it just wasn't their back. It could be ten years later or more for all you know.

This is true, and a good point, but not necessarily what the OP has led us to believe.

But they don't supply enough information to say either way. They could've just gotten out, or started a family and had four kids by now. If it was their first night home, that'd probably be the worst. Then again, your body could then say "ohh, I no longer have to be so wound up!" and then you sleep funny. That happens too. That's why some people gain weight after marriage. Their body changes with it's circumstances.

You're right, they don't. However, because we don't know that, and because the person is making that comparison, while it would be wrong for any of us (myself included) to assume, it would be logical to deduce that this person hasn't been out that long. With or without that information, it's still pretty crappy to mess up one's back, especially in such a simple way. The way some people are acting on here about it is pretty disgraceful. Having had a back injury that ruined a good year of my life, I really feel for people that have had similar or worse experiences and really think that people on here who are so willing to be nasty toward the OP, whatever their reasoning, deserve to know what it's like.

So we're giving the benefit of the doubt? I wish the OP could've been more specific, or fill us in. This FML sounds like something many of my relatives would say, even if ten or twenty years have past since said event. It doesn't help their situation, nor does it add to the story, it's just being thrown around in normal conversation. I'm also starting to wonder if the OP could've hurt himself during his service, but it just brought it out being home. Or they ignored some of the pain, and then it came back to hurt them later. Back injuries, or any injury is never fun, but no one can truly talk about it unless they've experienced it in some form or another.

You don't have to give him the benefit of the doubt. I am, though, mainly because I feel it's more likely that this isn't something happening 20 years after the fact, and it's not something worth reading that much into. Former Marine, presumably a "tough guy", is done in by his bed. That's really all I need to know.

It's possible, but we don't know that for a fact as we are not his physicians.

Agreed, I have back pains from my time in the US Army and my chiropractor helps me out a lot more than "take motrin, drink water, drive on" mentality.

disgrace to us citizens and the marines? are you for real? we don't know the whole story, so stfu.

we know enough of the story, dbag the fact that he can't make simple connections makes him an idiot and you even more so for defending him

Hey #30, were you born retarded or did you work your whole life to be that stupid?

hahahahahaha nice one you made my day. Thank you quiturbitchin.

#30 ur an ass!! ppl like him are the ones who make ur life easier FUCKK!! i HATE ppl like you, soo STUPID! and ungrateful