Today, at my graduation for my high school GED, my parents said they were getting all my family and my girlfriend together. So we all went out to a steakhouse down the road, everyone ordered steaks. Turns out the 'surprise' was me paying. I only got 50$ grad money, and the bill was 159.98. 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, after months of living on five dollars a day for food in college, I found out my parents bought me an expensive meal plan and forgot to mention it. FML
Today, I wanted to take my girlfriend to a nice dinner before prom. Her parents followed her in, and joined us to "keep an eye on me." They interrupted all our conversations, ate an expensive meal, then got up and walked out when the waitress brought the $95 check, leaving me to pay for it. FML
Today, I took my friends out to an expensive restaurant for my birthday treat. They had arranged for a surprise birthday cake for me which I cut, very happily, while they chanted birthday wishes. When the bill came, I discovered I was supposed to pay for my great 'surprise' cake. FML
Today, I went to dinner with friends for my birthday. During the whole thing they insisted that we get whatever we wanted and celebrate, but when the check came, they all looked at me expectantly. I just bought my friends $150 of food for my birthday present. FML
Today, it was my college graduation ceremony. My parents didn’t come because they “forgot”, although I told them and had been reminding them for months. Last year was my little sister’s high school graduation. My parents wasted no time going to her ceremony and then took her out to dinner. FML
Today, I invited all of my friends to my graduation party, and even paid for them all to be there. They all didn’t show. FML
Today, I was delivering pizzas for my summer job. I got a big order to deliver for a fellow graduate's party. While I was being paid for the order my friend shows up and says "Don't pay him, his parents are rich, he can handle it." Then they shut the door and took off. The bill was $75. FML
Today, my friends took me out to the most expensive restaurant in town to celebrate my promotion, we ordered everything with expensive drinks too. They 'took a smoke break' and left me with the bill. FML
Today, I was working my shift at a fancy restaurant and it had been a really hard day. My parents came in to have dinner and surprise me. After paying, they left a note saying they would see me at home. It also said "By the way, no tip, because you stink at serving." FML
Today, my parents came to the restaurant I work at as a waiter. After, I picked up the check to realize they had left me a $500 tip! We split the tips among the employees so I only got $50 back but I was still psyched. When I got home they asked me if I had noticed that they used my credit card. FML
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Kuroftw 0
Your family are assholes.
Raceta 5
You should have climbed out of the bathroom window and bailed :) hehe.
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better_life_soon 0
Ugh that's so tacky of your parents and friends. YOU were the one who graduated therefore it should be a celebration for YOU, meaning you don't pay.
martymcfly12 0
Wow thats just wrong... Fyl
hahaha6 0
#71- No, that is not really why that is available. It's more for people who have severe/ life threatening illnesses or injuries that make them miss a large portion of school but can still move on with their life and attend college. But, people who screw off their entire 4 years in high school and then someday realize that was a bad idea also make use of them too. I don't know if i've necessiarly heard of people doing what you have done (skipping the last few years of HS to start college) ..... but no, that's not why they make GED's available.... and also, (assuming this is the US) you can't skip all four year's. You wouldn't be 16 until your sophomore year, and then would still need a parent's permission.
yonick561 0
wow have assholes for family
kangelaf 0
This is just a preamble to the dozens of financially "strapped" situations you will be in in the near future, trying to survive off of your GED education. YDI.
HelloRio 0
I got a GED because I was way too skilled to be in high school, but I'm not any dumbass, I'm in Georgetown University going into my junior year, and I'm only 17. The GED was something made for people in extreme circumstances and military reasons, don't diss people for getting it if you don't know the story behind it GED= High School Equivalent One more thing, people who get a GED tend to actually be more successful then high school grads.
derriduh 0
Is that really how they phrased it? "The 'surprise' is that you have to pay for us!!"?? If so, get a new family. What assholes.
firezdog 0
Maybe they think that, because you're now a high-school graduate, you can afford to foot the bill? Still, that's really crappy -- I hope you let them know that. Also, to all the people dissing GED's -- give me a break! I can't fathom how having a GED is worse than not. I'd even think that the GED is better, since you actually have to pass a nationally recognized test -- whereas you can get through high-school by just showing up and getting C's. (Come on -- unless school is really hard for you, getting C's is no real accomplishment.)
onepctech 0
Sounds like a cheap steakhouse if that was the total. Still...kick your family in the face.
animejen1988 9
#48 said it, though there are reasons besides drugs and alcohol that would also make someone drop out. You guys are jerks for saying that he deserved it just because it was a GED rather than a high school diploma. I agree with #70.