Today, my extremely religious father visited for a family dinner. My daughter had just one job: not to set him off on one of his easily-provoked rants. She nonetheless decided to take a photo in the middle of prayer, because she just HAD to Instagram her food. My father went apeshit. 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, my dad got married to a woman who's an atheist and makes fun of me for being a devout Christian. FML
Today, my dad has discovered selfies and my mom has discovered taking pictures of food. Now I'm at a restaurant, suffering through it all and not being able to eat anything until my mom has taken pictures of it. FML
Today, I mustered up the courage to visit my estranged mega fundamentalist father to hopefully mend our relationship. The first thing he did was insult me for not having a beard, and call my wife and daughters whores because they weren't wearing long skirts or dresses. FML
Today, I went to visit my parents. Dad went on a religious tirade, and Mum got sick of him and pelted a Brazil nut at his head. Dad then lost his shit, and told Mum to go to her room and pray. I now remember why I moved out of home in the first place. FML
Today, I introduced my girlfriend to my parents over lunch. Unfortunately, I showed my dad her Facebook profile beforehand and he wouldn't stop making cracks about her duckfacing. It started with, "Don't let her eat the bread, it'll puff up in her stomach and kill her", and ended in tears. FML
Today, my religious parents were hosting a family dinner. Not only did we have to wait over an hour for my grandma to finally show up, but when she did, she had her 30 year old boytoy in tow. Apparently, "Granny has needs too you know, hahaha!" Goodbye peaceful family. FML
Today, while having dinner with my girlfriend's very religious parents, her mother called me a heathen and said she'd convert me one day. She wasn't kidding. FML
Today, I was trying to take a nice picture of my dad but he was just doing stupid-looking poses, so I got mad and told him to "stop acting like a prostitute" without knowing what that even means. Keep in mind, this was also in front of my mum and oldest sister. FML
Today, my son announced he was leaving our religion. I told him that, as sad I was, that I accepted and loved him. He seemed disappointed, and I noticed him discreetly fiddling with a camera. A little snooping led me to his Reddit account, where he called us all, "inbred, illiterate, bible-thumpers." FML
Today, my boyfriend and I went to my parents' barbecue. He knew my family is extremely religious, so what did he do? Called for silence to make an announcement, namely: "God isn't real." Cue a riot that ended in us being kicked out and me all but disowned for "putting him up to it". FML
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Top comments
Leki_0609 11
Who cares what food she is eating? She should have been spending quality time with your family and not whipped out her phone. Sorry but she deserved it, you didn't. FYL
ElementaryEdGuy 18
#Spaghetti #Meatballs #Jesus. See, Instagram prayers. He just doesn't understand the youth.
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Comments (101)
Jharrist89 12
Yep **** Your Life you your daughters dumb decisions!
LittleMagicWolf 7
YOU HAD ONE JOB.
Chewiebhz 15
Since he was visiting he should know his place and you should stop being a pushover.
hordriss 14
I just don't get why people feel the need to take pictures of their dinner and upload them to the internet. People that aren't at your table don't give a shit about what you're eating!
spottyblanket 8
That is rude but you should be telling her off - not him.
bebclarinet 0
Your father was completely in the right. That's very disrespectful and who's the one supposed to teach common courtesy and respect? Her parent (you). Its sad to see how far society has dumbed down due to technology and children not being taught respect for their elders.
FaygoAndMiracles 18
It's not respect for elders, it's respect to people who deserve it. Some elders have been terrible people or done terrible things, you shouldn't just blindly respect people without reason. However, I do agree that it was a little bit disrespectful, but, based on the way he flipped out, I have to wonder how worthy of respect he was. We don't know, maybe he said or did some terrible things(Or things that weren't necessarily terrible, but were pretty mean), and the daughter was at her tolerance limit with him.
youknowimright 5
Ydi for giving her a cell phone
FaygoAndMiracles 18
Most kids these days have phones. They can use it to phone their friends, and their parents can use it to get a hold of them if they don't come home on time, or if some emergency happened.
svalaedgren 18
It is also rude to go on a rant in somebody else's household.
Maycontainnuts 17
To all you guys saying that the daughter deserved it for "being on her phone rather than with family" she took it out for one second, she wasn't on it the whole night. And I think the father is totally in the wrong; yes, it's disrespectful, but he shouldn't be forcing his beliefs upon them.
Maycontainnuts 17
Also, to those saying "respect your elders", people should earn your respect; if they're being unreasonable screw them. OPs daughter is a kid, she probably didnt see the harm. If OPs whole family has to bend over backwards to accommodate this guy then something's not right.