Today, I called my mom for the first time in a few weeks, just to chat because I miss her. When she picked up, the first thing she said was, "Why are you calling? What's wrong? Do you have swine flu??" When I told her that I didn't, and I just wanted to chat, she hung up. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, for the first time in over a year, my mother actually called me. I excitedly picked up the phone. All I heard was rustling; her purse dialed me. FML
Today, I called my mother to say hi. She spent a whole hour and a half complaining about how I never call her, bawling and calling me "a waste of human flesh." I call her at least once a week. FML
Today, my phone rang for the first time in four days. It was my mom. She dialed the wrong number. FML
Today, I called my mom to tell her that I'm coming over for a visit. She answered: 'Why? What do you need? Food? Money? I'm not going to help you! You're a grown woman!' And she hung up. I just found out that I'm pregnant and she was the first person I wanted to share it with. FML
Today, I called my mom from Australia. I have been abroad for two months and hadn't talked to her in a long time. A few minutes into the conversation my moms stops me and says this call must cost a fortune and hangs up on me. A few bucks in more important to her then me. FML
Today, I texted my mom and had to explain to her that calling me repeatedly at 2 a.m. because you're bored and want to talk is not really a good idea. Seriously, nothing happened, she just wanted to chat because she had nothing else to do. Her response to my message? She started calling me again. FML
Today, while I was sitting in the living room with my mother, my phone rang. She immediately exclaimed, "I'm not calling you! Why is it going off?" She was serious. My own mother doesn't believe people talk to me. FML
Today, I called my mother to tell her about my terminal cancer diagnosis. She responded with, "What makes you think I care at all?" before hanging up. FML
Today, I called my mom to tell her that I finally got my period. There was an awkward pause. She was at work. I was on speakerphone. FML
Today, I finally had a phone call after a week of nothing. It was my mother. It was by accident. FML
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Top comments
Jimboom 12
Bitch! Next time she calls you with something important hang up on her and then ignore her phonecalls for a while.
had_a_bad_day 0
Shoulda gone with the swine flu answer
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Comments (73)
leero 0
#52, sorry i think my comment was easily misconstrued... i think the whole flu thing is really stupid, and to be honest, it's probably more easily spread by letting a bunch of teenagers run wild on a second spring break than by sending kids to school.. haha
utdftw 0
your mother must be white trash, which makes you...
TeenaBina 0
My parents are the same, hah
Lolrus 0
You all know that its gone to stage 6 now right? its a higher stage than the spanish influenza in 1918. That was the worst one. It shouldnt be taken very lightly.
l33tm0nk3y 0
That sucks. But also: lol, swine flu. #58, you best be trollin' cuz seriously it's just an average, run-of-the-mill flu bug. It's certainly nowhere near the 1918 Spanish flu. Sure, maybe if you're in a 3rd world country it could be fatal, but odds are if you're in a place where you have a phone and internet access you have good enough living conditions that a few days of proper nutrition and bed rest should lick it easily.
izzy_xo 0
wow thts mean
epic_sunshine 0
Around 100 Americans die from the flu everyday. One undernourished kid dies of swine flu and everyone freaks out.
kary2088 0
omg! u guys dont get it..her mum's probably just equally annoyed that her daughter doesn't call oft.! And hung up going all-yeah whatever, where'd all the sudden spurt of love come from! :)
amykillswitch 0
she could have been getting laid. you might have disturbed her in the middle of it.
JJ_TheJetPlane 0
Aw, sucks about your mum being so mean, but at least she was worried about your health! Swine flu debate - I live in Australia and there has been over 1000 cases of swine flu, I think ten people have died now, but they all had underlying medical conditions. Swine flu IS different to the normal flu because it has a strain of bird flu and swine flu which IS like the spanish flu and it IS easier to spread this swine flu in this modern age. HOWEVER! The normal flu kills over 3000 people in Australia every year, whereas Swine flu has killed ten at most this year. It is something to be careful about and be mindful of good hygine and limit the spread of the swine flu as much as possible, but it isn't as big a deal as the media is playing it up to be. A scared population is an easy to control population which is what the government and media like. The media especially like people worried about things like this because people want to know more about it and thus buy more newspapers and there ratings go up, therefore they profit from public panic and it is in there best interest to hype up stories about the swine flu. and #63 - lol