Today, I overheard my dad telling his work buddy that he's disappointed in his kid. I assumed he meant my brother, for flunking out of school. He meant me, for quitting sports to focus on my studies. 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, I was telling my dad how I turned down some guy, but when I mentioned the guy's name my dad was like, “Oh, you mean the son of my old friend, studying computer engineering, genius, real future ahead of him, and you think you can do better than him? What’s wrong with you?” FML
Today, as I woke up early to do my physics homework, I heard my parents talk about how big a disappointment I am for them. They discussed how stupid, immature and how big a burden I was. They knew I was listening. FML
Today, my family yelled at me for being a "selfish disappointment." My crime? Not being able to help my sister's boyfriend do his homework while I'm working on my class finals. FML
Today, I won an award at school for my hard work. Afterwards, my parents told me off. Why? They wanted my brother to get it instead of me. FML
Today, my siblings came home for the weekend. At dinner, my dad started complaining at how one of my siblings had gotten fired, one was failing college, and the other was gay. He went on to say I was 17 and already had a bright future. I'm pregnant. FML
Today, I was talking to one of my supervisors at my new job. He asked if I knew a professor at the school I recently graduated from, and I decided to babble on about how shitty of a professor he was and how much I loathed his class. He then looked at me and said, "That's my dad." FML
Today, my mom found out about my brother smoking. She calmly discussed smoking with him. On the other hand, I got yelled at and made to do chores all day despite having a university exam, just because I knew about it but I didn't tell her, because I knew that I would get the short end of the stick. FML
Today, I got back home from work and casually asked my dad, "What's up?" He casually replied, "Wishing I'd had a son instead." and stared glassy-eyed at me until I left the room. FML
Today, I was pouring my heart out to my dad about how I'm such a loser and how I have no friends. He listened sympathetically, until his phone buzzed with a text message. He said, "Balls, the guys from work wanna get shitfaced!" and took a rain check on me. FML
Today, my maths teacher was giving my whole class a lecture on 'if you don't pay attention at school, you will fail.' She then pointed out out a man working on the roof and said: 'if you don't listen, you will end up like that guy.' That was my dad. FML
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yamatelle 19
He'll regret saying that when you succeed ten years later.
Keyman1212 14
Are you wrong, or are you retarded?
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Comments (129)
RawrNom 0
awww sweet rainbow. I hope everything goes well! and the sports obsession is weird in America. England may look like football hooligans... well some are but just ignore those, but a lot more people focus on academics. I was in netball, rounders, football and I got banned from two of those growing up. I then had to look at other stuff at school and found waaaay more people do the studying side of it. no one cares about it. studying FTW.
bitchslapped22 14
Of course you like guys with money
ThatRussain 1
Then your dad is retarded... Sports are great and all, but unless you're a legend and get a scholarship it's not going to help you at all (not counting physical fitness) Good choice for you, but I suggest that your dad go screw himself for being that stupid....
Icecream93 4
Looking good can turn you into a model and you'd be in magazines posters, movies and everything ;)
Dakota598 1
Wow...thts all I have to say...
meltdown69 2
You won't be saying sports are better than studying when you end up in a hospital bed with a concussion and a herniated disk
MrMassive 0
That's if you GET into the team. Only like a hundreth of a percent of people get in...
ispt3ch 2
All the more reason to keep studying hard and get out of rural MN buddy :) sux when it's our parents but sooooo rewarding to come home for holidays in your new convertible while dear old dad has a job with his name on his shirt! Hang in there! :)
carbonbasedcynic 17
I wish my dad was like that cuz that's all I'm good at
Oswin_fml 10
That sounds like Sam