Today, I told my parents that what I'd really like for my 21st birthday is the 1865 edition of the Memoirs of Saint-Simon in 22 volumes that I found online for $200, and have been wanting for months. They laughed and said, "Yeah, right. We'll get you an iPhone and perhaps you'll become normal." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I told my parents that all I wanted for my 18th birthday was to go to a restaurant in NYC for a nice dinner. My parents said no, because it would cost too much money. I came home to see my parents had bought a huge TV for $800. We already have 3 televisions. FML
Today, it was my birthday. I have been heavily hinting that I want an iPhone. I opened my present from my parents and found an iPhone box. Ecstatic, I quickly opened it. Apparently, my parents thought it would be funny to wrap my present, a $10 iTunes gift card, in the box my Dad's iPhone came in. FML
Today, the whole family came over to celebrate my 18th birthday. My grandfather bought me a giant mathematics book. Apparently, he didn't want my 16 year old sister to be "jealous", so he got her the new iPad. FML
Today, my parents bought my 11-year-old brother a MacBook for my birthday. FML
Today, my teenage daughter faked a suicide because I bought her a Samsung instead of an iPhone for her birthday. FML
Today, I had dinner with my family in celebration of my 19th Birthday. I've been hinting that I need a new laptop for months now and I was sure my family had bought me one. I have got a pair of slipper socks. FML
Today, my parents gave me an iPhone. They then checked my grades online, and promptly took it away. FML
Today, it's my 21st birthday. My parents' gift was a case of non-alcoholic beer, to "prepare" me for when I "turn 21." My parents can't even remember how old I am. FML
Today, I found out my dad bought an iPhone. I've spent the better part of the last six months teaching him how to check his email and online newspapers. FML
Today, I bought my son a nice car for his 18th birthday. When I gave it to him, he just got mad and told me that if I really wanted to spend that much money on him, I should've used it to help him pay for college. FML
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a1f0sff 25
Even parents have fallen into the so common desires of society nowadays... (wanting everything related to apple)
jjmiller1001 17
hopefully one day you will get it, and become that rich odd person your parents used to know
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Comments (106)
OneOfTheCrazies 11
If you were my kid, I would be so proud of you. :.)
buckdharma 38
After all these implements and text designed by intellects So vexed to find evidently there's just so much that hides
buckdharma 38
This one is not mine. It is the actual lyrics to a song about Saint Simon by a band called the Shins. Pretty cool huh?
rossdavids 16
Sell the iPhone, buy the books yourself and you will have loads of money left over
charvisioku 22
What the ****? They should be proud.
spliit_fml 8
They should be proud you prefer books over an iPhone.
tomhofer 14
*an
slking1987 9
Tell your parents normal is a matter of opinion.
perdix 31
#46, no, normal is a matter of statistics. Whether being normal is better or not, that is a matter of opinion. If the vast majority of people believe in astrology, but you don't, you are not normal. Of course, you are smarter and more rational than the majority, but the adjective normal doesn't apply to you in this case.
Schiffy 18
Actually, normal is just a setting on the dryer. Those who claim they are "normal" are simply in denial.
eaglerob 20
Just return the iPhone and get your history on
EvilUndead 9
"Normal person" is a "boring person". You can sell or return back your IPhone and get those books you wanted.
Shadow_Phantom 26
Your parents seem to be what I call... brainwashed. FYL.