Today, I had to leave my ACT prep class ten minutes in to pick up my drunken father from his best friend's baby shower. I picked him up along with a bill for the damage. 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.
Same thing different taste
Drunk level: 2000
Today, I had to pick up my dad because he was too drunk to drive home. Drive his wheelchair home, that is. FML
Today, I had to pick up and drive home a couple of drunk bitches. Unfortunately, one of these drunk bitches was my mother. FML
Today, I got home from a week-long vacation with my friend's family. When I got back home, I found the garage door had been completely demolished. My uncontrollably drunk dad blamed me. I don't even drive. FML
Today, I was having my birthday party. My dad showed up late, blind drunk, and drove his car straight through my garage door. FML
Drunken antics
Today, my dad got extremely drunk, so I took away his car keys and left on foot. When I came back, I saw that he had broken down my door. Now my dad is mad at me for not giving him the keys when he was drunk, and I'm door-less. FML
Pissed
Today, I had an hour-long massage, meditated for while and was finally feeling good. Then I had to call an ambulance for my idiot father who had managed to get alcohol poisoning. FML
Dazed and confused
Today, my drunken mother woke up after having passed out and yelled at me for ditching school. It took half an hour to explain that it's 5:00, and I've already been to school. FML
Today, I had to go pick up my mother at 3 in the morning. She had been out drinking and couldn't drive. She parties more than I do. FML
Misbehaving
Today, at a friendly get-together, my friend's husband had too much to drink and got into a fistfight with my husband. I'm seven-and-a-half months pregnant, and the friendly get-together was my baby shower. FML
It's all too much
Today, I totaled my car whilst rushing to pick up my son from daycare. This happened as I was leaving the hospital, after dropping off a wheelchair to my recently disabled wife, who is taking care of our newborn in the special care unit. FML
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ntd309 14
Buy a new dad
Pleonasm 36
I hope for you that you aren't living in a situation where it will be you paying for those damages OP. FYL
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Comments (88)
BlackPhenom 9
Some father figure. I'm sure you won't feel bad placing the tab on him.
wagne057 6
A baby shower? whew, I'd hate to pick him up from a wedding.
Synapsky 10
Seems almost like you're his dad. Ground him.
poccocurantes 7
I remember this one baby shower. Completely out of control! Never saw a bunch of drunken soccer moms do that much damage to a hotel room. Somehow we wound up with a naked Asian guy in the trunck and Mike Tysons white tiger.
SnoochBoochie 14
Wait. He got another tiger and this one was white?
Ajwc101 24
Who gets drunk at a baby shower?!
DJAllen 6
Sell him on ebay
Michael_92 20
Just be sure you put no returns and sold as-is.
berichsoon 11
And start the biding at $0.1 Free shipping
whostolemylama 12
Has no one said a pun yet? It seems like.. *puts on shades* He ACTed inappropriately. /Tomato Shield - [ON]
CheeseTron 15
Yes, there's nothing like placing your drunk, naked father in a shower.
Axipiter 24
This may sound a bit harsh, but if he had to be removed from the party, and there was no other option for getting him home, I'd probably arrange for the cops to pick him up, then just pick him up from the Tank later, if there were no criminal charges or anything involved. I have no knowledge of how the drunk tank works since I can actually drink without becoming violent or destructive, but you don't **** with academics. I hope he's ashamed of himself.
Gallifreyian 5
I'm sorry, academics over family? Missing one class isn't going to hurt (it's mostly just practice problem solving anyways, which you can just do by yourself). I'd be more worried about what her dad would have done even if OP did call the cops to pick him up. What if her dad just says **** it and tries driving home? What if the cops did end up getting there and her dad acts inappropriately because he's drunk and ends up with another charge? Yes, it sucks that her dad is drunk, and it was terribly irresponsible of him, but family should always come first. OP did the right thing.
Axipiter 24
You make some valid points. I'm not saying you're wrong at all, I just disagree. Every individual at some point becomes responsible for their own actions at some point in their lives. Being a father with a child in high school (I think? I'm not familiar with the ACT at all...), he has most definitely hit that point. It's difficult for me to say exactly what I'd do, and without trying to sound almighty, my father would NEVER put me in a position like that. It's easier to judge as a third party, and I might have done the same in said situation. But OP definitely was unfairly put out by this, and their father had no right to ask that of them.
outoftown 27
44 - But here, dad's such an unruly, destructive sot that OP may BE her family's future. Might be in the family's long-term interest to let dad suffer his bad choices and let OP build her future.
Gallifreyian 5
Again, it's an ACT prep class. If he called during a university interview, or while taking the SAT, yea, I'd figure something else out. But in this case, it's a little overdramatic to talk about the dad ruining OP's future. Also, from the perspective of a student at a very good university, even the SATs/ACTs don't matter that much. The score is just a number, which is a concept that colleges recognize, and you can always sign up for more classes/retake the exam. You only have one family.
ixanonymousxi 7
Maybe family comes first for you. That's not a fundamental law. If my dad were a piece of shit that routinely ****** up his life or my own life then there's no way I'd pick him up even if it was only a small insignificant class. Hell I wouldn't pick him up if I was at home doing nothing! However, if this was his first offense then I probably would. My point being is that no one should have a biological obligation to anyone. If is a person is shitty i'm gonna treat them like shit, be they family or not, and likewise if they treat me right, I will treat them right, whether they're family or not
yresim 12
44 - Clearly, you have a supportive family, not an abusive/alcoholic/negligent family. I'm happy for you, seriously. But when you have a family that fits into one of the latter categories, saying 'family always comes first' is kind of like saying 'I want to end up just like them' and/or 'I want to end up homeless/broke.' Sometimes, the best thing you can do for everyone is succeed. I'm not saying blow them off completely, but don't let them negatively impact your academics. It might not seem like that big a deal to you, but if OP is interested in a prestigious major/school, it most certainly can be a problem later on. And 'you can take it again' only counts if you have the money/time to take it again. It's not free.
ksks1234 33
You are a better person than I. I would have just said, "let him figure it out", shut off my phone, and commenced with the prep class.