that sucks. my mom would do the exact same thing. but, you should have saved it. that would have been the smart thing to do.

Not buying this. First off, you were working on it for days and didn't save it once. Secondly, your parent hadn't have turned it off when it was on for those days, what are the chances she turned it off as soon as you were done? Yeah, I don't buy this for a second.

default autosave is 5 mins, so unless you wrote your essay AND took a shower in under 5 mins (which would make it a crap essay anyway and easy as hell to recreate), this FML is total crap. Oh, and if you've turned off autosave, you're an idiot.

YDI YDI YDI ALWAYS save. Plus, you were wasting electricity.

set up auto save and honestly, it just takes two button presses to save something. ydi, but I do feel ya- my mom or dad or grandparents would do the same.

Your mom definitely should have saved before shutting the computer down with an essay up on the screen. However, if you had been intelligent enough to save on your own before leaving the computer to shower, it wouldn't have been an issue. Your mom's the catalyst only by chance. It could have been a power outage, or your computer just freezing, or any number of things, and saving on a regular basis is just part of what you do to protect your work.

i love how this is your mothers fault when you should know by now to save your work again and again until your done. save your own shit

I hope you yelled at her for shutting down your computer! but YDI for not saving the documents cuz you always should!

YDI for not saving your work. You're always supposed to save your work as you go along in case something happens, like if someone shuts it down, there's a computer error, whatever. It's something I was always taught in school, and it's just common sense. Don't know what they teach in Singapore though.

Jesus Saves - So should you