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By duderboi99 - 25/05/2009 19:45 - United States

Today, I was writing a huge paper for a class as our last grade. My dog starts scratching himself. He hit the power button on the computer. Nothing was saved. FML

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By Allie - 23/11/2018 12:00

Today, right after I finished writing a very important paper and saved it to my hard drive, my barely 2-year-old Macbook decided to completely stop functioning. I went to the Apple store and even they can't get it to turn on. That's $1500 down the drain along with my grade. FML

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By Caci Johnson - 15/10/2017 04:30

Today, I sat down at my computer for the first time in a week, and discovered that my cat had thrown up all over my keyboard. I needed to write up an important document but the chunks were stuck down in the keys, effectively locking it up and making it useless. FML

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By slcbabii23 - 01/10/2009 07:56 - United States

Today, I realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/01/2023 15:00

Today, my cat decided to use my keyboard as a scratching post, and now my computer won't work. FML

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By Anonymous - 27/11/2012 05:06 - United States - Appleton

Today, my step-mom restarted the computer because she thought she'd downloaded a virus that stopped her from being able to click on anything, erasing my 7-page paper in the process. It turns out it was just the batteries dying in our wireless mouse. FML

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By David3000 - 24/01/2009 07:15 - Australia

Today, I finally finished my 500 page manuscript and so went out to buy some paper to print it off. I get back home and find out my dad has infected my computer with a virus and the only way to save it was to wipe the hard drive, which he did. That script took me a year and I have no backup. FML

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By stpddog - 25/07/2009 18:43 - United States

Today, while trying to get my attention, my dog got her nail stuck in a usb port in my laptop. She freaked out and ran off, dragging it off my lap and through the house before if came off. Her nail was only slightly chipped- my laptop now has a cracked screen. FML

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By PineappleOfMyEye - 13/12/2018 12:30

Today, I went to check my grade, which was posted for an essay for my comp 1 class. I got a zero. I was devastated only to find out I never actually clicked the submit document button. My grade dropped 20 points. FML

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By lifedamntough - 28/06/2009 11:49 - Singapore

Today, I took a shower after I finished typing an important essay I've been working on for days. My computer illiterate mum shut the computer down when I was gone, without saving a thing. When I confronted her, she yelled at me for "wasting electricity". FML

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By stop it ninja - 14/10/2012 07:00 - United States - Fredericksburg

Today, while I was using my computer, my cat ran up to the power strip, looked me in the eyes, and hit the power switch, turning everything off. She does this quite often. FML

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althemaster 16

Monday 25 May 2009 23:38

Ans THAT'S why you should save every 2 seconds... No but that really sucks...

xxmollyxx 25

Monday 25 May 2009 23:38

A new version of the dog ate my homework, cool :D Still sucks though!

Comments

kbbe48 0

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:09

the dog deleted my homework!! (see if any teachers believe that one:D)

Chazlol 7

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:17

Thats why you should always save your stuff every couple of minutes! YDI

MoobyTheCow 2

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:20

Either turn on auto-save or get in the habit of hitting Ctrl + S every time your train of thought ends.

VioletStrange 0

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:21

YDI, YDI, a thousand times YDI.

MrZach 0

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:22

This is a lie. No matter what computer you're using, unless it was made before 1999, anything being written in a word processor is automatically saved to your memory along with anything else you were doing when it shut down.

LikelyYourFake 0

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:24

YDI if it is even real.

onigiriqueen 0

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:25

I agree with #92. If you turn off the computer and turn it back on, the word processor program will ask if you want to recover it. It might not be to where you were exactly, but it would have most of it still on the computer. YDI because if this really was an important paper, you would have been saving it every time you paused to think or look something up.

Mugen_fml 0

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:27

on top of the auto-save comments, if you hit the power button while you have a program open that you can edit with (such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other things), it will ask you ARE YOU SURE..... so either... you hit the wrong button after your dog hit the power button (you idiot) or your lying (go get a life. then post the stories here). Either way. FYL.

onigiriqueen 0

Tuesday 26 May 2009 1:27

#81- not so. If you hold the power button, the computer will just shut off. When your computer freezes, how the hell would you get a prompting to shut it off when you hit the power button?! Thought so. It's amazing how little people know about computers! And I'm just a regular user, too. Sad.