Miscellaneous: Today, I spent an hour painstakingly disassembling my antique...

By TukTuk - 27/10/2014 21:18 - Germany - Weinböhla

Today, I spent an hour painstakingly disassembling my antique mirror after discovering a stack of papers behind the back board. I finally got hold of one corner, and pulled out - a newspaper from 2007 and instructions for an IKEA bed. FML

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By danny - 03/10/2024 20:00 - United Kingdom

Today, I spent two hours building an IKEA bookshelf. When I was finished, I realized it was inside-out. There was no way to fix it without completely taking it apart again. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/04/2012 07:18 - United States - Salinas

Today, I tried to put together some flat-pack furniture. I wound up in my underpants, screaming stuff like, "Fuck you, fucking Ikea bastard" at pieces of confusing plywood. FML

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Damn you, Ikea!

By xXrememberthisXx - 16/10/2023 06:30

Today, I attempted to assemble a piece of furniture that claimed to be "easy to build in minutes." Four hours and multiple arguments later, I realized I had misread the instructions, and half the parts were upside down. I'm pretty sure the furniture won this round. FML

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By brunnells22 - 23/06/2020 23:00

Today, I was feeling pretty proud of myself for building an Ikea shelf/dresser combo completely by myself. When going to put the last drawer together, I dropped one of the boards. The corner landed perfectly in the middle of my phone screen, shattering it. It's going to cost $230 to fix it. FML

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By meh - 26/05/2015 05:09 - Australia - Brisbane

Today, I asked my landlady if she could fix the air conditioner that's been broken since I moved in. Instead, she came round and took away my bathroom mirror, along with all the toilet paper. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/05/2009 07:13 - United States

Today, I was cleaning my apartment because I'm moving. I was being really thorough so I could get as much of the damage deposit back as possible. I noticed I still had one of those 3M plastic hooks on the wall, and when I went to carefully take it off, a large chunk of the wall came with it. FML

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By fuck you btichass cuntshit - 20/08/2015 16:18 - United States - Shelburne

Today, I accidentally dropped and shattered my small bathroom mirror. My sister came to see what was going on, took one look at the shattered mirror, and said, "About time you put it out if its misery." FML

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By hatelife - 30/12/2009 19:07 - United States

Today, the instructions on my new IKEA bed made me cry. It includes a picture of a person working alone with a frown crossed out and is replaced by two smiling people working together. I have no one in my life to help me. FML

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By Anonymous - 14/11/2010 01:39 - United States

Today, I came home to my family remodeling our (extremely) out of date bathroom. I was SUPER excited to help them get it done. I walked down the hallway and opened my bedroom door to find a huge, gaping hole in my wall and my room covered in dust. I had to sweep every surface in my room. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/10/2011 12:25 - United States

Today, I finally found out where my great-grandmother's antique handheld mirror disappeared to. According to the headmaster, my eleven year-old son has been using it to look up his classmates' dresses at school. FML

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Enslaved 36

Tuesday 28 October 2014 6:45

Were you expecting it to be a treasure map?

NeatNit 32

Tuesday 28 October 2014 6:45

Plot twist: you acquired it in 2003!

Comments

ldkindasucks 6

Tuesday 28 October 2014 6:52

What were you really expecting out of it in the end? A sequel to the Diary of Anne Frank?

Just_A_Tree 20

Tuesday 28 October 2014 7:45

I would have hoped for Da Vinci's personal notebook, or even some of Teslas own notes which are believed to be missing. Those would be cool, not as cool as Batman (nothing is as cool as Batman), but still pretty cool.

keiNan_fml 35

Tuesday 28 October 2014 6:55

i am sure from now on every look into that mirror will remind you of your stupid act

SparkyRoxYurSox 16

Tuesday 28 October 2014 6:58

Look around some more, you might find some IKEA instructions on how to put your mirror back together! ;)

LetMeSleepPlease 23

Tuesday 28 October 2014 7:12

To be honest, I would've done the same just because I wouldn't be able to stifle my curiosity.

wanted_2_want 40

Tuesday 28 October 2014 7:22

Curiosity killed the... You know.

Ichiya 29

Tuesday 28 October 2014 14:05

Fish?

rocker_chick23 27

Tuesday 28 October 2014 14:08

#18: Curiousity killed the cactus, right? /s

MrsPegg 45

Tuesday 28 October 2014 7:26

The real question is, why did the person who put those back there, do it? I think that's the true mystery! It wasn't a waste of time because either way, the person who hid those things knows something we don't.

Brandi_Faith 33

Tuesday 28 October 2014 19:55

I think the person did it originally to screw with the next owner of the mirror. He probably left the corner of the papers showing on purpose. Now it's only fair that Op put it back for whoever gets the mirror next and laugh at the thought of them doing the same thing op just did. And so the circle goes on...lol.

more4me 27

Tuesday 28 October 2014 20:00

they did it because the mirror was loose so they needed something in the back of it to keep it steady. I've done the same thing with some frames.

Brandi_Faith 33

Wednesday 29 October 2014 7:03

Well that's not very exciting. Way to ruin it for everyone 54!

DirtySalamander 9

Monday 23 March 2020 2:15

54?

rocker_chick23 27

Tuesday 28 October 2014 7:31

Who knows, OP? There could be a code of some sort on the instructions or newspaper.

martin8337 35

Tuesday 28 October 2014 7:51

Could have been the DaVinci codes.

stonedfly3 15

Tuesday 28 October 2014 8:33

Plot twist - the IKEA instructions aren't really for a bed, but for a very comfortable time machine. The person bought / assembled said time machine in 2007 and traveled back to the time this 'antique' was made, however in order to remember what day they travelled from, they brought a newspaper from that day to set the right date. Accidentally, during the painstaking task of making said antique, these instructions and paper were placed behind the mirror, and poor time traveller has to live the remainder of their days in the past.