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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
RedPillSucks 33
A 22 volume eBook? Gak
RedPillSucks 33
In the parents defense, they may have already gotten OP the phone prior to her asking for the books. They may just have had a really shitty response to her query.
onorexveritas 24
sell the iphone and get what you really want
Fsvb 32
This made me sad. Intelligence and having hobby's or being interested in things other than gadgets and clothing should not be rejected or seen as a bad, weird thing. This honestly makes me sad.
hardehar 9
Having an iPhone doesn't make you any more normal than loving history makes you a weirdo. I'm sorry OP
ocramavaf 15
you can then get whatever volumes you wish on your I phone no?
MidnaLink 35
By any chance, do you mean Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, cause there's something of his on the iBook store for free if you're interested. Let them get you the iPhone anyway.
outoftown 27
Why not do both, OP? Keep the phone, download the free volumes, and save up for the real set. Enjoy the 1865 editions safely at home; the e-versions are lighter to carry with you.
Durdanya 13
Keep pressing, OP; that's a way better present than an iPhone! Your parents are tasteless.
AliSama 17
why don't girls like you exist where I live?
olhuma 5
Your parents did you a favor. Saint Simon's rants and gossiping about the French court have no value but the choice of words, and that gets lost in the translation anyhow (unless of course you are talking about a French language edition). Take the iPhone.
olhuma 5
Although, just realizing the OP talks about a 1865 edition.... I don't believe that one would be in English :)