Work: Today, I was going to work and got in the elevator. I was going...

By elevatorjerk - 02/09/2009 13:01 - United States

Today, I was going to work and got in the elevator. I was going through my bag for my phone and asked the man in the elevator to push the button for me. He gave me a look of death before I realized he had no arms. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/02/2013 07:18 - United States - Modesto

Today, I worked up my courage and took an elevator for the first time in my life. Unfortunately, it was also my first time getting trapped for several hours in an elevator. FML

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By hails - 28/04/2022 04:00 - Canada - Toronto

Today, at work, I’ll admit that I wasn’t in a good mood. I work in fast food, and I went to hand this guy his food without looking and he didn’t grab it. I got frustrated so I FINALLY looked. With an equally as upset look, I noticed the guy didn’t have arms, so I’d just been shoving food in his face. FML

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Thanks, I guess

By Stuckism - 15/09/2009 17:16 - Malaysia

Today, I got stuck in an elevator. The help-line told me, "Don't touch the door. We'll be there soon". Two hours later, I had a headache, my legs were stiff, and my date must've thought I stood her up. The tech finally arrived, pries the door open, then rudely asked, "Why didn't you do that yourself?" FML

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Introvert life

By CaBur - 19/02/2013 22:03 - United States - Los Angeles

Today, at work I got in an elevator to go upstairs. It wasn't until the doors opened minutes later and people stepped in that I realized I had zoned out and forgot to press the button for the floor I needed. I then promptly exited the elevator and waited for the next elevator to go up in. FML

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You ANIMAL

By ElevatorThug - 25/08/2009 09:17 - Singapore

Today, as I got into an elevator, I spotted a little old lady hobbling desperately to get on. I frantically tapped on the 'door open' button but the doors closed. I got dirty looks from the people in the lift, only then did I realise I had frantically tapped the 'door close' button instead. FML

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What more do you need?

By Anonymous - 24/11/2024 05:00 - United States

Today, we have elevators at my work, but you need to go to HR to get a key. I was denied one after I almost died in a car accident because I didn’t look “hurt enough.” FML

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Need a hand?

By Gary - 03/02/2023 04:00

Today, a shop I do work for sent a driver to pick up a large item. The driver was helping me load it, but was struggling and holding it awkward like he didn't know how to hold something heavy. Angrily I yelled at him to grab it like me with both his hands gripping the bottom. Turns out he was missing a hand. FML

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You deserved it 1 004

By OrangeTree12 - 04/04/2009 06:05 - Canada

Today, a really cute guy sat across from me on the bus. He smiled at me, then tensed his muscles and lifted a heavy bag with one arm. Thinking he was trying to act "macho" to impress me, I rolled my eyes and threw him an annoyed/disgusted look. When he got off, I realized he only had one arm. FML

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By Mike - 17/12/2009 16:38 - United States

Today, I got in an elevator at a hotel. Just as the door was closing, somebody banged into the door and stuck their hand through. I yelled, "What, are you retarded?!" The doors then opened to reveal a mentally handicapped boy with his parents standing behind him. FML

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By bitch - 07/10/2013 07:37 - Australia

Today, I was working behind the bar at a club. After serving drinks to a guy, he asked me if I could carry them outside to the two girls waiting for him. I scowled at him and told him I wasn't a waitress. That's when I realised he had one arm. FML

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MaxOfMetal 0

Wednesday 2 September 2009 20:32

Then how did he get in and choose his floor in the first place? I'm calling shenanigans.

thatpianoguy612 0

Wednesday 2 September 2009 20:31

Ouch.

Comments

Chopperman_fml 0

Thursday 3 September 2009 4:23

FYL, as long as you apologised :3

zpicci 0

Thursday 3 September 2009 5:22

what was an armless man doing in a work building? I feel really bad for him but seriously doesn't work require writing most the time? fyl

DameGreyWulf 0

Thursday 3 September 2009 5:39

So many deathly looking people.

joy1523 0

Thursday 3 September 2009 7:49

BS. first of all, the chances that someone missing both arms just walks around elevators and everywhere in every situation without any arms at all (meaning without prosthetic arms or something else to help them) is unlikely. and secondly, if they did they would have had to be doing so for a significant amount of time... and I doubt someone who has been living for any amount of significant time without arms is going to give people the "look of death" when someone doesn't notice at first. i'm pretty sure they would have encountered that many times before and since realized that its an awkward mistake and not anything malicious....

cocky 0

Thursday 3 September 2009 8:33

You should have shaken his hand and apologi.. oh wait. Buhahahaha. :P

som_fml 0

Thursday 3 September 2009 10:44

what the hell? surely he had an idea of how he was going to press the button in the first place? I hardly believe a man is going to hang out in an elevator all day waiting for someone to go to the exact floor he wanted. Paraplegics aren't useless...

LibbyBee 0

Thursday 3 September 2009 20:55

One of my good friends has no arms and she can push elevator buttons, drive cars, do whatever without the help of anybody. The guy was either being bitter or a jerk. Don't give him a second thought. Plus, it's not like you were being rude about it and making fun, you were just distracted.