Miscellaneous: Today, I finished up my physics project. I had to make some thing...

By Physics fail. - 11/11/2009 19:09 - United States

Today, I finished up my physics project. I had to make some thing out of toothpicks and glue that will keep an egg from breaking when dropped 20 feet. It took me 10 hours to make it, but only took my dad 10 seconds to step on it and break it. It's due tomorrow. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/04/2016 00:12 - United States - Yorktown Heights

Today, after working like a caffeine-fuelled thunderstorm for 9 hours straight on an art project, my 2 friends informed me that it was due next week. I slept for 10 hours, and then went to my class without my project, thinking I lucked out in the long run. Clearly not, as it was due today. FML

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By alex - 24/02/2012 21:35 - United States

Today, I tried to make a rocket, using Diet Coke and Mentos. It worked pretty well, as both the kitchen window and my chipped tooth can testify. FML

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By Anonymous - 12/01/2011 18:47 - Ireland

Today, I was taking my architecture project to school. I'd spent days preparing my little model house. I stepped outside with it in my hand, and right at that moment a gust of wind ripped it away. It's currently lying in my neighbour's garden, smashed to pieces. FML

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By Anonymous - 16/11/2020 17:02 - Germany

Today, I cracked an egg which turned out to have an extremely thin shell, so at first contact with the bowl, it came apart in my hand and the contents glooped right through my fingers, all the way down the kitchen cabinet, into a half-open drawer, as well as onto the floor and underneath the cabinet. FML

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Opening old wounds

By Anonymous - 28/08/2021 12:01 - United States

Today, I was cleaning out the garage and found one of my old science fair projects. It was disqualified for outside help and cheating. I didn't do either. FML

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By Anomaly - 03/03/2015 02:43 - United States - Trenton

Today, I saw a person in my class completing a project that was due two periods later and that they had just started in the bathroom. They got a better grade than me. FML

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By Sudoc - 03/12/2017 05:00

Today, after spending 6 hours straight working on a project at school, I decided to call it a night. The instant I set foot out of the lab, the building started screaming. The maintenance guy had set the alarm without telling me. The police had to let me out. FML

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By Anonymous - 05/04/2022 10:00

Today, I proudly put on display the custom clock I'd spent 3 months building from scratch. It struck the hour and promptly fell off the wall, breaking my wife’s antique vase that she'd inherited from her great nana. FML

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By S. - 26/08/2012 16:20 - Estonia

Today, I bought a pack of toothpicks. There were 500 of them. When I got home I accidentally dropped the pack. After twenty long minutes of picking them up, I dropped them again. FML

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By Anonymous - 21/02/2012 19:24 - Germany

Today, my sculpture, which is very important for my art grade, fell from my desk and broke to pieces. My art teacher suggested I soak the parts in water to make it easier to stick them back together. They dissolved. FML

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Wednesday 11 November 2009 23:35

YDI for leaving it on the floor.

LemonFairy 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:45

FAIL people. Re-read the FML. It's for physics, and must be made of toothpicks and glue. Toothpicks and glue. Have that key fact down? Good.

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seesee971 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:07

Awwwww lol maybe leave it on a tab;e next time?

Wlollpop 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:23

it took your dad 10 seconds to take one step?

JellyMelly 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:23

Your dad should help you put it back together. 

bdewitt1 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:23

I remember doing this project as well. I constructed mine in 20 minutes. I failed epically; the key, as I recall, is to spread the toothpicks out to allow the outside toothpicks to break and absorb the collision impact. You should be able to salvage the damage; don't put as much glue the second time around to allow for proper drying time.

LemonFairy 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:49

First, it's clear that almost everybody who commented did NOT fully read the FML: the project HAD to be made of toothpicks and glue. As somebody who had to make a whole tower that was to support ten times its weight out of uncooked spaghetti and Elmer's white glue ONLY last year I feel your pain OP. I can understand why it would be on the floor, too, if it was a project or mechanism that was larger. (Not sure if you're putting the egg in the project and then dropping the project like most people seem to think, but the wording suggested, at least to me, that you were dropping the egg /into/ it.) FYL. Hope you did okay on the project regardless.

ooohlife 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 3:50

i did that in 3rd grade and wrapped the egg in bubble wrap! it's super easy and my egg was fine!

JaggedJacii 0

Thursday 12 November 2009 4:03

#61 did you not look at #59's comment? I had to do that project too. And it HAS to be done out of toothpicks and Glue. Mine was quite large(not sure is OP is the same) and had I put it on a table then it would be in the way. I put mine in a corner of the room.

grrrarrrg2 2

Thursday 12 November 2009 5:07

I couldn't imagine the OP's could be that big and his dad still end up stepping on it! Unless he meant to....I mean he did step on it for 10 seconds. HAHA YOUR DAD HATES YOU!!!!!