Miscellaneous: Today, I went to see a once-in-a-lifetime moment when the Olympic...

By Notorch - 23/05/2012 15:53 - United Kingdom - Cheltenham

Today, I went to see a once-in-a-lifetime moment when the Olympic torch passed through my town. I waited for 3 hours only to get a bruise from a man shoving me out of the way at the exact moment it went past. FML

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By Anonymous - 29/04/2012 19:26 - United States - Rapid City

Today, I drove for hours to attend a martial arts tournament, and then I waited ages for it to finally start. I lost in less than a minute. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/09/2011 22:20 - United States

Today, I went to a baseball game. On the way in, I managed to trip and get stuck in the turnstile. It took five minutes of flailing and twisting around in front of hundreds of people before I managed to pull myself out. FML

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By News-print Face Kate - 18/07/2012 16:37 - United Kingdom

Today, a man slapped me in the face with his newspaper because I didn't get out of his way fast enough at the train station. I guess he didn't notice I was on crutches. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/07/2018 01:30

Today, I got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Hamilton. My friend kept complaining and asking very loudly why it was "just about that one guy". We got kicked out. FML

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By publicenemy - 15/09/2009 12:16 - United States

Today, I was first in line at a stoplight. After five minutes, with a line of cars behind me, the light was still red. People behind me started honking, so I decided to just go. Halfway across the way, I was greeted by a camera flash. Nobody else went. FML

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How could you?

By passedoutpolly - 01/08/2009 02:35 - United States

Today, I went to a huge rock concert. While waiting in a half a mile long line to get in, I passed out due to the heat. I regained consciousness to hear about a hundred people yelling and trying to help me. My boyfriend, who I went with, was not one of them. FML

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By anonymous - 13/07/2015 09:45 - China - Shanghai

Today, I was yelled at by a bunch of angry people because I couldn't physically move out of the way while 10 more tried to force their way onto a subway in Shanghai. Then one old lady started hitting me with her purse to get me to move even more. FML

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By good-samaritan-fail - 06/10/2009 15:56 - Australia

Today, I was at a music festival when a group of idiots decided to push over a port-a-loo (portable toilet). I rushed over and tried to hold it up to save the person inside from a very messy and embarrasing scene. Not only did the door open, covering me in excrement, but there was no-one inside. FML

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Good cause, bad knees

By Anonymous - 15/10/2023 22:00

Today, I took part in a charity run for a good cause. I'd trained for months and showed up, only to trip and fall flat on my face at the starting line. I spent the rest of the race with scraped knees and a bruised ego. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/01/2015 11:35 - Australia

Today, at the train station a woman's baggage had gotten stuck in the ticket barriers, so I used my ticket to unlock the barriers for her but told her to wait so I could get through too. She didn't wait. And I got painfully stuck in the barriers whilst I watched my train go by. FML

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SkoomaKi 27

Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:52

Quick, get to the next town! It's a one in a 4 year chance to see it.

noe1387 0

Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:54

Soo... It was only there for a brief second?

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chloenutt 7

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:17

Chippenham?

tj4234 35

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:19

If you want to get a good and entertaining view of it, come up here to Aberdeen. We have what is known as the worst roundabout in Britain (the Haudagain roundabout) and the torch is going to go through it during rush hour. That would be a once in a lifetime thing to see.

zombiibabii 4

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:19

People get insanely rude and inconsiderate when events like that happen. Sorry, OP. At least you didn't get trampled or some shit like that.

NurseAbi 10

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:20

I got up at 4:30 this morning to see the torch, in Bristol. If I could work out how to add instagram pics, I'd post mine so you could see it

downtime 12

Thursday 24 May 2012 6:36

I'm sure they appreciate the "look what I got to see and you didn't" moment, but I think it isn't really going to quite make up for the missed opportunity :P

kablooey_01 3

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:25

The word "past" is out of context."Passed" would be the correct word unless there was a time lapse.

RAUN 8

Wednesday 23 May 2012 20:02

Where is "past" incorrect in op's post? "...as it went past" should be as it went passed? Really? True, op could have written "as it passed" but I see nothing wrong as op wrote it.

NotAlwaysRight 11

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:37

How rude. If you can, you should go to Greece and see it. It's always on display at Olympia there (although not always lit).

DazedSiren 5

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:38

Who cares dude. Don't you have better things to do? Like, get a life?

HannahLouise96 13

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:48

Little rude, don't you think?

angelofsaturn 23

Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:57

#45 right because telling someone they need to get a life is the epitome of having a life.

tylersee 3

Thursday 24 May 2012 6:11

Okay CPT. crunch go set sail

downtime 12

Thursday 24 May 2012 6:40

I think it's more about the incident than the missed opportunity. I'd give a damn if I missed out on something I wanted to see because some jackass shoved me aside at the last second and injured me too, I don't think having a life negates that point.