Random Fail: First World Problems

[Yuri-G]

inspirational chest tattoos. the new, male version of the tramp stamp.

[BaneTheBrawler]

So last night I'm on the last storyline dungeon in FFXIV. Start pre-heating the oven cos I'm hungry. Next thing I know there's firemen and cops all over the place because my oven was putting out a lot of smoke (it wasnt dirty, at least the parts i can clean) and my neighbor got freaked out. So after clearing that up, the property manager comes and says she has to write me up because the firemen noticed some code violations (everything is a code violation). So I just spent the day cleaning/rearranging stuff to solve that.

I hate cleaning. That is the FWP. The fail is that I just now met my neighbors.... because I had to go outside to take the trash out.

[Pringles]

Girlfriend came home early from work today to discover her roommate and her roommate's bf having sex in her bed. I sleep in that bed

[Josiahkf]

Oh my gosh lol

[zoobernut]

Girlfriend came home early from work today to discover her roommate and her roommate's bf having sex in her bed. I sleep in that bed

This sounds like the start of a porno, or the end.

[Astylla]

So last night I'm on the last storyline dungeon in FFXIV. Start pre-heating the oven cos I'm hungry. Next thing I know there's firemen and cops all over the place because my oven was putting out a lot of smoke (it wasnt dirty, at least the parts i can clean) and my neighbor got freaked out. So after clearing that up, the property manager comes and says she has to write me up because the firemen noticed some code violations (everything is a code violation). So I just spent the day cleaning/rearranging stuff to solve that.

I hate cleaning. That is the FWP. The fail is that I just now met my neighbors.... because I had to go outside to take the trash out.

I'm sorry that fucking sucks. Reminds me of a story though..

Back in 1999/2000 I was up late after moving back in with my parents after a bad breakup. I was playing Everquest camping for a group for my warrior bracers in Karnor Castle. Put some oil on the stove to make fries.
I completely forget until the smoke alarm goes off and I see flames hitting the upper cabinet /stove fan area.

My mom took the blame for it since had my dad known I would have been beaten until I couldn't walk. Anyway fire Department has to come out to help get the smoke out of the house.
I never cooked while playing an MMO ever again.

The funny part though is insurance paid way more than we expected so my mom got the kitchen of her dreams before she passed away.

[Abandon]

Girlfriend came home early from work today to discover her roommate and her roommate's bf having sex in her bed. I sleep in that bed

fucking lol

[Zetanio]

Girlfriend came home early from work today to discover her roommate and her roommate's bf having sex in her bed. I sleep in that bed

You slept in their love juice.

Remember that.

[SamanosukeShiva]

gonna go on a rant here since i don't wanna dirty up the gay marriage thread on the politics forum with my rant.

a little background about me:
I'm 26 years old.
I'm a naturalized US citizen, I came to US from Indonesia when I was 11 or so years old.
My whole family from both my mother and father side are VERY devout Christians, go to church 2x/week kind a thing.
I'm an atheist and my parents and siblings are not particularly religious either, my parents won't out loud say that they're atheist, but I've never seen them do or say anything religious in my life.

It begins with the supreme court announcement about gay marriage. I'm a huge progressive, so this felt like a huge win for me.
There's this little thing on Facebook that makes your profile picture with rainbow color, I thought it was cool, so I did that. Closed Facebook, didn't think anything of it. I didn't go back and check it for the next 24~ hours or so.
When I came back and checked Facebook there are 30+ comments on it, some from fellow American friends saying "lol are you gay?", and some other friends arguing with the previously mentioned friends about how insensitive they are being. So, whatever, got a good chuckle out of that.

Then, I scrolled down some more, in barrages of comments from family members (mostly my cousins, few who I was really close with) in Indonesia, asking something to the effect of "Do you even know what putting rainbow colors on your profile picture means? It means you are supporting the gays!!" (I thought, yeah no shit, I live in America of course I know what that means...), and then some other comments about America is going the way of Sodom and Gomorrah, another comments about God will smite America, some about how disappointed they were, and they would never in their life support any kinds of right for the homosexuals. All of those comments came as a huge shock to me, I've always thought to myself, that only Christians in US are bigoted, my relatives in Indonesia know better. How naive of me, but I couldn't handle seeing that, I felt like a kid finding out Santa isn't real times a thousand. I was depressed for a couple of days, and then yesterday morning I was angry. It took all of me not to write a 5-page essay and post it on Facebook, explaining why all of my family members in Indonesia are nothing but dogs who obey their master's will without giving it any second thoughts. I even managed to translate half of it to Indonesian language. I wouldn't want to post it in English so there is zero misunderstanding of what I was trying to say.

luckily before could I finish it, it was time for me to go to my classes. All the work I had to do during the day in my classes calmed me down, and I decided it was stupid of me to get worked up like that, so whatever, fuck em. I decided not to post it and I managed not to embarrass myself and make myself look like a raging crazy atheist from America in front of my relatives.

TLDR; Almost rage-post on Facebook, saved myself the embarrassment.

[Melena]

Fail and sorta win at once. Just got a call from the dealership, the new headliner did not arrive this morning, they are expecting it at the end of the day. Adviser says he talked to his manager as I had to pay for an upgrade on my rental due to how long this is taking and the ford fiesta was killing my legs and says his manager said to waive the deductable as i'm over the 36k mile standard warranty. I tell him whoa, that's not cool, this is the fifth time i've brought my car in since I got it due to the sunglass holder coming loose and rattling, so he tells me oh you're right, and is now calling the rental car place to cover the cost of my rental, saving me what would be about 120 dollars.

[Aksannyi]

Been fighting with the fucking Florida unemployment website for the last hour now.

Let me make this 100% fucking clear, I AM NOT LOOKING FOR WORK. I AM A FULL-TIME STUDENT, AND I AM GOING TO BE UNABLE TO WORK FULL TIME AS OF AUGUST, WHEN I START MY PRACTICUM NEARLY FULL-TIME. Knowing this, I am not going to subject myself to searching for jobs - which is a huge fucking waste of my time and employers' time - when I am only employable for, at maximum, six weeks. Six weeks. All I'm asking for with the goddamn government of Florida is that I can get a little bit of fucking help here so that I can survive over the summer while I'm not receiving VA benefits. I shouldn't have to submit proof that I've made employment contacts from people, or bend over backwards to look for employment that I don't even want, because this should be done on a case-by-case basis, and I can't even talk to a human about this issue.

I get they don't want people to be a drain on the system, which is why I haven't even claimed unemployment until now, when I've been out of work since October. Now that I actually fucking need it though, I have to go through all this bullshit just to get certified as "eligible" for it. Honestly, who is going to hire someone who is only available for six weeks? FUCKING NO ONE IS, THAT IS WHY I AM LOOKING FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

I'm so goddamn angry right now I can't even see straight.

[FNH]

Been fighting with the fucking Florida unemployment website for the last hour now.

Let me make this 100% fucking clear, I AM NOT LOOKING FOR WORK. I AM A FULL-TIME STUDENT, AND I AM GOING TO BE UNABLE TO WORK FULL TIME AS OF AUGUST, WHEN I START MY PRACTICUM NEARLY FULL-TIME. Knowing this, I am not going to subject myself to searching for jobs - which is a huge fucking waste of my time and employers' time - when I am only employable for, at maximum, six weeks. Six weeks. All I'm asking for with the goddamn government of Florida is that I can get a little bit of fucking help here so that I can survive over the summer while I'm not receiving VA benefits. I shouldn't have to submit proof that I've made employment contacts from people, or bend over backwards to look for employment that I don't even want, because this should be done on a case-by-case basis, and I can't even talk to a human about this issue.

I get they don't want people to be a drain on the system, which is why I haven't even claimed unemployment until now, when I've been out of work since October. Now that I actually fucking need it though, I have to go through all this bullshit just to get certified as "eligible" for it. Honestly, who is going to hire someone who is only available for six weeks? FUCKING NO ONE IS, THAT IS WHY I AM LOOKING FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

I'm so goddamn angry right now I can't even see straight.

Why don't you just play along with the system? If they require that you look for a job, just send out some applications.

[Aksannyi]

Because it's a complete waste of my time. I have other stuff I could be doing, like studying. I'm literally asking for benefits for like four weeks, I shouldn't have to go through all of this.

I've done the unemployment thing before, several years ago, and I never had to deal with all of this crap.


To elaborate, I think you're underestimating how much of a pain in the ass this is. They want me to prove that I've contacted at least five people/companies per week. Online applications where I have to fill in every last place I've ever worked in my entire life are the bane of my fucking existence, not to mention the ones that won't accept the fact that I don't have a phone number for my now defunct Army unit, nor do I have any of those people's contact info. It's frustrating and painful and I'm not in any way willing to put myself through that when I already know the outcome.

[synistar]

Had to put big boy pants on at work. Reported a safety incident in regards to an unsecured gas cylinder. Last thing I want is that thing to turn into a wall demolishing, car destroying, flesh smashing murder projectile.

For reference, I defer to the Mythbusters:

[Josiahkf]

gonna go on a rant here since i don't wanna dirty up the gay marriage thread on the politics forum with my rant.

a little background about me:
I'm 26 years old.
I'm a naturalized US citizen, I came to US from Indonesia when I was 11 or so years old.
My whole family from both my mother and father side are VERY devout Christians, go to church 2x/week kind a thing.
I'm an atheist and my parents and siblings are not particularly religious either, my parents won't out loud say that they're atheist, but I've never seen them do or say anything religious in my life.

It begins with the supreme court announcement about gay marriage. I'm a huge progressive, so this felt like a huge win for me.
There's this little thing on Facebook that makes your profile picture with rainbow color, I thought it was cool, so I did that. Closed Facebook, didn't think anything of it. I didn't go back and check it for the next 24~ hours or so.
When I came back and checked Facebook there are 30+ comments on it, some from fellow American friends saying "lol are you gay?", and some other friends arguing with the previously mentioned friends about how insensitive they are being. So, whatever, got a good chuckle out of that.

Then, I scrolled down some more, in barrages of comments from family members (mostly my cousins, few who I was really close with) in Indonesia, asking something to the effect of "Do you even know what putting rainbow colors on your profile picture means? It means you are supporting the gays!!" (I thought, yeah no shit, I live in America of course I know what that means...), and then some other comments about America is going the way of Sodom and Gomorrah, another comments about God will smite America, some about how disappointed they were, and they would never in their life support any kinds of right for the homosexuals. All of those comments came as a huge shock to me, I've always thought to myself, that only Christians in US are bigoted, my relatives in Indonesia know better. How naive of me, but I couldn't handle seeing that, I felt like a kid finding out Santa isn't real times a thousand. I was depressed for a couple of days, and then yesterday morning I was angry. It took all of me not to write a 5-page essay and post it on Facebook, explaining why all of my family members in Indonesia are nothing but dogs who obey their master's will without giving it any second thoughts. I even managed to translate half of it to Indonesian language. I wouldn't want to post it in English so there is zero misunderstanding of what I was trying to say.

luckily before could I finish it, it was time for me to go to my classes. All the work I had to do during the day in my classes calmed me down, and I decided it was stupid of me to get worked up like that, so whatever, fuck em. I decided not to post it and I managed not to embarrass myself and make myself look like a raging crazy atheist from America in front of my relatives.

TLDR; Almost rage-post on Facebook, saved myself the embarrassment.

Im shocked you though only American Christians can be that discriminatory; American Christians are just offended Christians from across the world that got fed up and left their countries.

No religious behaviour can shock me anymore I just tend to get far more disappointed in non-religious people I see that overstep similarity regarding spirituality, overly condescendingly or blindly etc; I look to those people as being apart from that kind of behaviour but that is just a bias.

[AoE]

The first time I went to the base commissary to buy groceries, I noticed the baggage girl staring me down hard as hell, like practically eye fucking me but I paid it no mind because whatever and I was with friends.

Went again today to get more groceries and she was doing it again except this time I was alone so she tried to chat me up. She even did the whole "I like your shoes" bit even though my shoes look like garbage right now and asked me if I wanted help putting my groceries into the car while turning around and pulling her pants up so it'd tighten around her ass.

What makes it a fail is that she clearly looks like she's 16 and I turn 29 in 2 weeks. I'm so irrationally mad right now but I had to muster all of my rational energy to turn her down for the obvious multitudes of reasons.

[FNH]

Because it's a complete waste of my time. I have other stuff I could be doing, like studying. I'm literally asking for benefits for like four weeks, I shouldn't have to go through all of this.

I've done the unemployment thing before, several years ago, and I never had to deal with all of this crap.


To elaborate, I think you're underestimating how much of a pain in the ass this is. They want me to prove that I've contacted at least five people/companies per week. Online applications where I have to fill in every last place I've ever worked in my entire life are the bane of my fucking existence, not to mention the ones that won't accept the fact that I don't have a phone number for my now defunct Army unit, nor do I have any of those people's contact info. It's frustrating and painful and I'm not in any way willing to put myself through that when I already know the outcome.

So you just want 4 weeks worth of pay and not have to do anything for it? 1 application a day would take like 20 minutes.

[Josiahkf]

The first time I went to the base commissary to buy groceries, I noticed the baggage girl staring me down hard as hell, like practically eye fucking me but I paid it no mind because whatever and I was with friends.

Went again today to get more groceries and she was doing it again except this time I was alone so she tried to chat me up. She even did the whole "I like your shoes" bit even though my shoes look like garbage right now and asked me if I wanted help putting my groceries into the car while turning around and pulling her pants up so it'd tighten around her ass.

What makes it a fail is that she clearly looks like she's 16 and I turn 29 in 2 weeks. I'm so irrationally mad right now but I had to muster all of my rational energy to turn her down for the obvious multitudes of reasons.

ugh hate being in those shoes, I feel ya and bully for doing what's right.

[Aksannyi]

So you just want 4 weeks worth of pay and not have to do anything for it? 1 application a day would take like 20 minutes.

I mean it sounds fucked up, but yes. I paid into the system and it isn't like I'm doing nothing ever. I've been working on coursework but I couldn't take enough credits over the summer to get my usual benefits. I just think it's a huge waste of time, especially when you consider how cumbersome it is to fill out online applications, especially when I'm not even interested in working. It seems deceptive and shady as fuck, honestly.

And in the end, it won't even be enough to cover all of my bills anyway, it would have only bought me a little bit of time.

[Arelian]

I mean it sounds fucked up, but yes. I paid into the system and it isn't like I'm doing nothing ever. I've been working on coursework but I couldn't take enough credits over the summer to get my usual benefits. I just think it's a huge waste of time, especially when you consider how cumbersome it is to fill out online applications, especially when I'm not even interested in working. It seems deceptive and shady as fuck, honestly.

And in the end, it won't even be enough to cover all of my bills anyway, it would have only bought me a little bit of time.

Send out some emails from Craigslist help wanted ads. Come up with something generic and simple.

Takes all of 5 minutes per day and the contact is still being made and it's easy to prove.