We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share their data horror stories.
Because Canadian data plans can be crazy expensive.
Like seriously...
Here are the 15 most heartbreaking stories from people who have exceeded their data limits:
1. The Trailer Park Trap
My best friend used to be obsessed with The Trailer Park Boys and every second of the day he'd be watching it. He watched it at school and thought he was using wifi but he wasn't. He ended up finishing the entire series and going 43 GBs over his data.
Submitted by ethanryan
2. The iPad Sneak Attack
A coworker brought his company iPad to Mexico and tacked up a $10,000 bill. Oops.
Submitted by kaymmm
3. The Gambler
I was having a huge argument with my ex on messenger and refused to lose, so I kept having to turn my data on just long enough to load his message and respond before switching it back off. It was like playing Russian roulette with my bank account.
Submitted by officialshrimpemoji
4. The Traumatizing Text
While traveling in Barcelona, I got a text one day telling me my data roaming fees were $700.
Submitted by ericabee
5. The Broken Heart
I had just started dating my boyfriend and was leaving on a family cruise. I wanted to stay in contact but didn't want to pay the data charges. I didn't use my phone unless I had wifi so I thought I would be okay. We texted maybe, every other day for a week? I got home and realized I never turned my roaming off and was charged over $1200.
Submitted by Victoria Barber (Facebook)
6. The Family Feud
My dad bought me an a 'V' phone when I was 14, it was one of the first smartphones with Verizon. The data never ran out and my dad received a bill. A $780 bill.
NEVER TRUST A TEEN WITH A CELLPHONE.
Submitted by Stacy Ines (Facebook)
7. The Disconnected Dilemma
I only have 500MB of data and once, two days into my plan, I was watching a 13 minute long YouTube video on my house's WiFi and for some reason it disconnected from it and connected to my LTE network without notifying me and used all of my month's data.
Submitted by hannahcduperron
8. The Kardashian Katastrophe
Recently I hit an all time low. I used all the data on my family's plan only a day after we got to reset. I played hours worth of Kim Kardashian Hollywood all without wifi.
Submitted by abbyxox
9. The Visitors Fee
One time my family and I went to Canada and when we crossed the border, AT&T sent us a message saying that we had spent $400 of data and we had only been in the country for 15 minutes.
Submitted by bmb3599
10. The Vacation Nightmare
I literally racked up a $9,900+ phone bill over the span of one week in France because my provider didn't offer a very good roaming package at the time. They brought it down to $800 bones, but still...
Submitted by Lauren O'Neil (Facebook)
11. The Doomed Delivery
I was starving and had been trying to decide what food I wanted to order online for at least 30 minutes. I decided on Chinese delivery and got as far as where to pay and then my data stopped working. I cried.
Submitted by chardenaealexandriae
12. The Awkward Ask
I was out to eat with friends at a restaurant with no wifi (go figure!) and I got the notification that I had run out of data. I had no cash and now no way to transfer money from my savings account to my debit card, so I had to borrow money to cover the bill. It was so embarrassing.
Submitted by treyh4fed1022b
13. The Good First Impression
I went to Switzerland on a high school trip when the iPhone first came out. I didn't know I had to turn off the data and racked up a $1300 bill which I back-tracked on the phone at 2am while crying hysterically, scaring my host family.
Submitted by jaynies2
14. And The Different Kind Of Data Story
As a research nerd, I thought it this was about running out of data in a statistical analysis... like realizing you don't have enough statistical power to run the test you wanted to run because you didn't collect enough data or had too much missing data. I really need to get out more.
Submitted by Caroline Orr (Facebook)
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
Oops! Verizon is not a Canadian cell phone carrier. An earlier version included a story from a Verizon customer so it was removed from this post.