Miscellaneous: Today, I had a planned 12-hour power cut for maintenance work,...

By Powerless - 30/08/2012 06:05 - Australia

Today, I had a planned 12-hour power cut for maintenance work, which I'd forgot all about. In need of a shower before work, I spent 45 minutes boiling pots of water on the stove to take a lukewarm, 6-inch deep bath, before realizing my water heater runs on natural gas and was working fine. FML

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By abrazama - 02/10/2009 14:20 - United Kingdom

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By Anonymous - 15/09/2012 04:44 - United States - Modesto

Today, the gas company came to connect our stove for free. While here, they broke our hot water heater, shut it off, and issued us a hazard notice. We can fix it, but they won't be able to come back for another two weeks to turn the gas back on. We don't have any hot water until then. FML

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Today, my mother told me to take a quick shower. When I got out, she told me I took too long, and now I have to pay the utilities bill. My shower was two minutes long. FML

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By NowABlonde - 09/03/2009 16:23 - United States

Today, I decided to lighten my hair. I applied the dye and waited 20 minutes. When I went to wash the dye out, the water wouldn't turn on. After my head started to burn, I called the landlord in a panic. Turns out there was a water main break and the entire city block doesn't have water. FML

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Thursday 30 August 2012 12:12

Always check first. Also, wouldn't it be more efficient to boil one or two pots of water and use a simple washcloth?

lovemesomeanth 2

Thursday 30 August 2012 12:13

Thank god for running water and water heaters, imagine having to boil your own bath water every single day.

Comments

outoftown 26

Thursday 30 August 2012 20:00

Why morning coffee is such a help. Clears the fuzzy brain before the body follows it.

zuzupetalsYO 11

Thursday 30 August 2012 21:28

Wow 45 min out of your WHOLE life wasted. FYL. Not.

dougierocks 13

Thursday 30 August 2012 21:39

In 12 hours there should have been enough hot water for a bath... Even if it was electric, The water doesn't instantly turn cold when they cut the power..

Szaszaspasz 26

Thursday 30 August 2012 22:05

You are honest enough to admit it. Who hasn't made a mistake before?

BMc1824 0

Thursday 30 August 2012 22:43

You didnt realize you had a gas heater as you were using a gas stove?

ScreamingFits 0

Friday 31 August 2012 0:45

So, you were able to boil water on your gas stove, but you weren't able to remember you had a gas water heater? At least I'm assuming it was a gas stove since you need electricity to run an electric stove. YDI.

oldstyl66 7

Friday 31 August 2012 1:08

Dude you still have to plug in a gas water heater. I hope you didn't boil water on an electric stove.

skippydoda 32

Friday 31 August 2012 1:13

I can understand that you may have forgotten that your hot water runs on gas. What I can't understand is why didn't you just grit your teeth and take a three minute cold Navy shower. Really it's one minute to get wet, turn off the water sud up and another two minutes to rinse.