Today, I saw my grandmother. All of my cousins and I went to say "hi" to her, one by one. When I got up to her and said, "Hi grandma!", she said in Chinese, "I don't remember this one." FML
I agree, your life sucks (18352) - you totally deserved it (1003)
On 11/06/2009 at 1:13am - misc - by ForgottenKid (man) - United States (California)
maybe you just have a lot of cousins? I know some people who have like twenty
#1 - On 11/06/2009 at 6:17am by realxmuto
My grandmother in law cannot remember my name, and I'm only one of her four grandchildren, including the ones married into the family.
Number doesn't mean anything. I have 61 first cousins and my Nana knows all of our names.
Come on, think about it. Do you know twenty of your friends by name? Why would family be any different?
Awww, don't take offense to it. Her memory's just slipping.
It would've been worse if she suddenly remembered and said "Oh, yeah--- the mistake."
#3 - On 11/06/2009 at 6:18am by MermaidSongXOXO
Haha, good call, MS. Seriously, OP, grandmas' memory fades; don't take it personally.
#28 - On 11/06/2009 at 9:47am by BeeSkwaird
btw why is it that Chinese is displayed in the comments without a problem, but in PM it shows up as question marks?
Thank goodness for Google translator. As for how? She's old. It happens.
It must be sad when members of your own family don't recognise you. Ask anyone with relatives who have Alzheimers.
Looking at it the other way round, it must also be hard to realise that you don't recognise members of your family.
#19 - On 11/06/2009 at 8:42am by wellinever
Why does she need to say it in English?
Is it a big problem that people from all over the world type their native language?
#41 - On 11/06/2009 at 1:04pm by fawfulster
It is important that everyone on the site can understand each other. Since the site is in English, we wish all users to use English in their comments.
Not as much as if it was his parents. Grandparents are old and forgetful. Unless it was like his favorite Granny, then I see a problem
#34 - On 11/06/2009 at 10:12am by Sun_Kissed18
Maybe she said that about all of you. "I don't remember this one- Or this one- Is this one a boy or a girl!?!"
lol =)
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*insert obligatory racist joke here*
#10 - On 11/06/2009 at 7:03am by Chfanfiction
If you dont give a fuck, don't comment and go masturbate some more.
#15 - On 11/06/2009 at 7:41am by Person1233
Hey, you crazy old broad, willya remember my name long enough to get me into your will and then you can forget me again?
Sounds similar to when my great aunt was introducing us four kids... she was like, "This one's Matt, this one's Angelica, this one's Kyle..." then she points to me and says, "and that's... oh, whatever her name is." It definitely sucks.
Eh? Sounds like a simple slip of the mind to me. I think the more appropriate message is "FHL" (F her life), not "FYL."
#24 - On 11/06/2009 at 9:21am by blastvortex
There is no language called "Chinese".
There's Mandarin and Cantonese...
#29 - On 11/06/2009 at 9:47am by Ohnothingreally
The weird thing is they are an Italian family! No one knows why Grandma is speaking any of the languages of China.
Actually, most linguists would consider Mandarin and Cantonese to be dialects of a Chinese language. While the English use of the word dialect doesn't convey the fact that the two spoken language systems are mutually intelligible, for social, linguistic-historical, and cultural reasons, there is indeed a spoken Chinese language. Furthermore, the spoken Chinese language features not only Mandarin and Cantonese but many other dialects.
kudos to u ohnothingreally. so many ppl don't know there is a difference. the thing is OP should have specified if it was Cantonese or Mandarin if she's Chinese so a few alarm bells r ringing there. but all in all people start forgetting stuff when they get old. what's it called again?
Yeah, I know the feeling. When my grandfather was dying (from cancer) we visited him at Christmas and he couldn't remember my sister or I (two of the only three grandchildren. He remembered the third, in jail for stealing from him) and to add salt to the wound, he said "she's prettier" and indicated to my sister. Try not to take it too seriously. They mean no harm, even if what they say really hurts
#31 - On 11/06/2009 at 9:58am by catastrophicsock
Everyone should pity me,
Though it's my Grandma's memory
That's fading way too rapidly.
I can't be worried for HER, you see,
Cause Im a giant cry baby.
Seriously, give the woman a break. I've watched a older and not so older people slip memory wise and worse, loose it completely. It's not an FML.
#32 - On 11/06/2009 at 10:02am by rhymethyme
I'm Chinese and one of like 13 cousins, and this happened to me too! Well, it's definitely understandable, but I was a little hurt my grandma recognized my little brother and not me... Guess kids are cuter.
#37 - On 11/06/2009 at 11:53am by minakichan
Alzheimers? Or she could just be joking, idk. ask her.
#40 - On 11/06/2009 at 12:31pm by BriniBrutal90
I would hate having to do that "lineup and say hi all one by one" thing. That'd be my FML right there, although maybe you're legitimately young.
It can't be personal, if it was... she would remember you specifically to hate you.
#42 - On 11/06/2009 at 2:17pm by 42billybob
My grandpa had Alzheimer disease and couldn't remember who I was, but he remembered my cat only because she bit him the first time she met him.
#46 - On 11/06/2009 at 3:04pm by verylsin
Old women have memory problems, especially if they have Alzheimers.
#51 - On 11/06/2009 at 5:13pm by Dragonmouth
so?
i've had this happen to me before too. it happens.
#55 - On 11/06/2009 at 10:49pm by effyouseekay
Yeah that really sucks! Specially cuz chinese ppl r smart thay hardly forget anything!
#61 - On 11/07/2009 at 1:37am by gaby0722
Don't be stereotypical. Forgetting stuff has nothing to with being "smart."
#66 - On 11/11/2009 at 6:54pm by xf0rg0tt3nx
id laugh if she wasn't chinese. my friend is asian and she talk me how to say all the bad words. i feel accomplished =]
