By Anonymous - 28/08/2013 18:50 - United States - Bessemer

Today, while working at a client's house, I noticed that their sliding calendar was several months off. I fixed it. Later the daughter saw and started crying. Apparently the date was the last one her mother had set it to before she died. FML
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IHATEFMYLIFE 26

This is why you don't touch people's things when you're working at their house. Def YDI!

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Rddvl 11

YDI, although it was a good gesture, you shouldn't mess with stuff at other people's houses especially if it's a client's.

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wonderfulrosie 13

I'm a little on the fence about this one. There is no way you could have known and you were just trying to be helpful; however, you shouldn't mess with other people's stuff. Next time, just telling them about the calendar or whatever the issue is, rather than taking it upon yourself to fix it.

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MikaykayUnicorn 36

You kinda were more to the YDI side on that.

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singer0421 32

Dang that stinks! But it's not your fault OP, there's no way you would've known.

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EmilianaLondon 14

If you're working in someone's house, don't touch what isn't a part of the job :/

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perdix 29

Tell her to stop living in the past and move on with her life. I hope her mom's spirit isn't looking down on her and seeing what a whiny crybaby her kid has become.

princessbits 17

What an insensitive thing to say. It hardly makes her a crybaby for wanting to keep one of the last things her mother did intact. Death is a hard thing to go through.

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lazygirlWOW 9

There is just so many things wrong with this statement...be considerate and not an ignorant ass. How about that?

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threer 30

Too far, Perdix. Toooo far..

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NandaPanda 22

Wow Perdix. You're usually one of my favourite commenters, but I honestly can't believe anyone would be inconsiderate enough to say that. Are you saying that if you lost your mother, you wouldn't want just one thing to remind you of her? I can completely understand where she was coming from. I would be devastated by the loss of my mother, as would most people, and if all I had left was a calendar she had set, you'd better damn well believe that I wouldn't want anyone changing it. What's done is done, but OP never should have changed the calendar since that obviously wasn't what he was hired to do. Try to find some sympathy and don't be such an ass next time. Losing a loved one is hard, and she was definantly not being a crybaby.

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skyttlz 32

I got a birthday card a few years ago signed from someone who is gone now. I'm always gonna keep it. It was my (now ex) best friends mom who loved me lots.

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ChibiChibi_fml 27

That's reasonable. I recommend getting it laminated though. Cards are really easy to damage if you move them around at all.

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addioty 19

I'll probably be seriously buried but I agree to an extent. I understand what it's like to lose someone close to you, I have recently, but she is living in the past! The memories live on - but she needs to cool down about the calendar. Just set it back to the date it was on before. OP was being nice but it backfired. The client, in my opinion, was overreacting. Surely the client has some other memento of sorts to remember her mother by!

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Ibuki 15

That could be done, setting back the date, but it wouldn't be the mother who does it.

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Neesalun 20

So sad for the girl! You didn't know.

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Kateyez_26 13

Maybe you should've just told her that it was the wrong month before u started putting your hands on stuff that doesn't belong to you.

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idkhaha 4

Unless calendars were something special to her mom..

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EmilianaLondon 14

#31 is right, we don't know the connection. If it really was so 'trivial' then I doubt she would have cried, you never know.

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