I absolutely disagree. First of all, even if I agreed that playing basketball at the YMCA was a good analogy for playing World of Warcraft, playing a game is not a good enough reason to not pick up your child from school. Especially when they live 3 hours walking distance away. If you don't want the responsibilities that come with having children, don't have children. Second, I DON'T agree that playing basketball is the same as playing World of Warcraft. It's comparing apples to oranges, so don't even try. Computer games =/= real life sports, period. OP, that really sucks... FYL, indeed.

If you think that sports is the same thing as WoW, you're deluding yourself pretty badly. If you think uludar is difficult, you're deluding yourself. A better analogy would be, "Your dad plays a pickup game with a group of friends every week, and there are 5 people sitting on the bench as replacements, as well as a few hundred people hanging out next to the basketball court who are willing to sub". Do you REALLY think a WoW guild can't go to LFG and go "Looking for for " and play? Or go contact one of the MANY people in the game? One of many folks alts in the game? People need to get their priorities straightened out. OP, FYL.

Sports are an entertaining way to unwind and socialize with other people. World of Warcraft is an entertaining way to unwind and socialize with other people. Where's the difference? And you're speaking about OP as if she's some 5 year old who still needs her parents to guide her every step. It sounds as though she is high school or college aged. If you are old enough to successfully walk home from school and then bitch about your dad online, then you are probably old enough to make your own transportation arrangements ahead of time when you KNOW that your dad has something (doesn't matter what it is) scheduled every week at the same time. ESPECIALLY when that weekly event is something that will keep him from getting too stressed out by work.

Yeah... You're reading way too much into this. The FML is 4 sentences long. Nowhere does it say how old the OP is or how stressed out the father is or isn't. It doesn't say that he has this scheduled every week. It doesn't even say if the father has a job. All it says is that a 49-year-old father let his daughter walk home for 3 hours in the evening, because he decided that playing World of Warcraft was more important than picking her up. And I think that really sucks.

Wow. I'M reading way too much into this? Really? WELL THEN. I sincerely apologize. Especially to all of you who are jumping to the conclusion that he is an addict because he plays WoW.

I'm not saying he's an addict simply because he plays wow. I'm saying he's an addict, because he choose a WoW activity over the fact that his daughter needed him; REGARDLESS of whether she's 17, or 23, or 33. The OP has a shitty dad REGARDLESS of what age she is. I would be pretty pissed if my dad would rather play WoW, play pool, or ANYTHING ELSE if i needed him. Because HE'S MY DAD. I should be more important to him than getting epixamgnoway from wow