Work: Today, the power went out at school. If it's out for more than...

By anon - 15/10/2012 19:00 - United States - Poquoson

Today, the power went out at school. If it's out for more than twenty minutes, standard procedure is to let us go home. They came back on almost nineteen minutes later. FML

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By Samuel - 21/05/2010 19:12 - Canada

Today, I woke up to find my power was out. After taking a shower in the dark and being unable to make myself lunch, my power came on two minutes before I had to leave for school. FML

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By KCHS - 11/12/2014 18:20 - United States

Today, the power went out at school. As a senior, I don't show up until third period. When I got there, I signed in as usual. The office secretary waited until I signed in to tell me that if I hadn't, I wouldn't have to attend classes that day. Now I have to sit in class doing nothing. FML

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By AstonBrown - 15/06/2016 17:53 - United States - Cleveland

Today, a strong storm knocked the power out at our office. I was dismissed five hours early, had my desk locked up and was walking toward the doors to leave when the power came back on. FML

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By boop snoop - 01/09/2019 16:00 - United States

Today, the power at work was out. This would be fine, if they didn’t make me stay for another hour to wait for it to come back on in the Texas heat. FML

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By OhDeary - 01/08/2011 20:18 - United States

Today, our power went out due to some severe storms. My daughter, who is 18, asked me why the lights on the car still worked. FML

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By James - 08/02/2016 22:55 - United Kingdom - Sheffield

Today, the power in my village went out. This caused the back-up battery powered alarm to go off. Nobody in the house even knew our alarm worked, let alone how to make it stop. It's been going off for over an hour now. FML

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By FUCKING POWER - 02/11/2013 21:41 - United States - Wixom

Today, there was a power outage at my apartment. I ended up deciding that the power wasn't going to come on any time soon, and that I should go to a hotel for the night. Just after I unpacked at the hotel, my neighbor called to say the power had come back. FML

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By thenerd - 24/03/2021 02:00

Today, I was doing an online live exam with the camera on when the power suddenly went out. FML

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By Anonymous - 27/04/2021 21:30

Today, I had one minute to go before a team meeting from my work, a blackout occurred in my block. The outage lasted an hour. The meeting was about 40 minutes long. FML

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By idiot bro - 06/07/2014 18:04 - United States - Brunswick

Today, after a power outage at my house, my 14-year-old brother was genuinely confused as to why our flashlights still worked if we had no electricity. FML

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Monday 15 October 2012 22:46

Damn that's unlucky..

lollovelife0304 3

Monday 15 October 2012 22:47

That sucks, getting out of school early is always fun. Too bad.

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Jinxx7 0

Tuesday 16 October 2012 1:00

Don't you just hate when that happens?

awkward_gothlady 32

Tuesday 16 October 2012 1:03

I totally feel for you here. At my job as an EFL teacher, if our students/clients don't show up within 20 minutes, we get to go home, but we still get paid for the class. There's always at least one person who'll show up at 19 minutes...

killaKT 2

Tuesday 16 October 2012 1:16

Get over it it's just school, wait til you get to the real world

yepusuckarse 7

Tuesday 16 October 2012 1:30

Haha

court_f 8

Tuesday 16 October 2012 1:52

Damn that sucks! I can relate, it's standard procedure at our school that if the fire alarm goes off 6 times in 1 day they send us home. It went off 5 times. Oh and it was winter. And 1 time I was using the washroom... Lol unlucky.

tj4234 35

Tuesday 16 October 2012 2:06

out of interest, wouldn't the schools procedures have made them send you home anyway? This happened in my school a few years ago but the power came back on after they had organised for the buses and taxis to come (which they would have to do before closing the school) and they sent us home regardless.

brianjman14 22

Tuesday 16 October 2012 2:21

Similar thing happened to me last year. The power went out and we all had to go outside. Then they tell us to go inside and what in the Student Center (the huge cafeteria). Just before they decided to call school off, the power came back on, everyone was sprinting towards the doors.