Today, I told my parents that all I wanted for my 18th birthday was to go to a restaurant in NYC for a nice dinner. My parents said no, because it would cost too much money. I came home to see my parents had bought a huge TV for $800. We already have 3 televisions. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, I bought my mother an expensive TV she had been looking at. After I bought it, she continued browsing for more stuff. I told her I couldn't afford the extra items. She got mad and called me "selfish". FML
Today, I told my parents that what I'd really like for my 21st birthday is the 1865 edition of the Memoirs of Saint-Simon in 22 volumes that I found online for $200, and have been wanting for months. They laughed and said, "Yeah, right. We'll get you an iPhone and perhaps you'll become normal." FML
Today, my mother flipped out that I spent $20 on a gift for myself for my birthday. Instead of getting a gift for me, she spent $300 on a new vacuum cleaner, and claims that we didn't have enough left in our budget to spend on me. FML
Today, I spent over $2,000 on a big flatscreen TV. My dad insisted I let him mount it on the wall instead of paying someone to do it. All seemed fine, until the TV came loose and smashed onto the floor. My dad refuses to accept responsibility, and says I should've had a professional install it instead. FML
Today, it's my birthday. My parents, with whom I live, told me that they didn't get me anything, but instead they said they would knock off a bit of the housekeeping I owe them. FML
Today, I bought my son a nice car for his 18th birthday. When I gave it to him, he just got mad and told me that if I really wanted to spend that much money on him, I should've used it to help him pay for college. FML
Today, I found out my mom is getting rid of cable TV. My dad and I bought her a 700 dollar plasma screen TV for Christmas. FML
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 begged my parents not to take me to a restaurant for my birthday, but sure enough, they took me to one, along with my siblings, aunts, uncles, you name it. Ordering with them is a nightmare, so after a whole half-hour the waiter still hadn’t gotten everyone’s complicated orders written down. FML
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YDIxLol 0
That's bull shit. Throw lasagna at them.
Shlizabeth 0
I'm gonna say FYL because I live in NJ and while it's hard to get to NY just for dinner, for a birthday that's a reasonable gift, so to say that's too expensive and then buy a brand new tv, that's just rude.
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Comments (168)
Jincos 0
Stop bitching and learn to accept nothing. Not saying you deserve it, but I got nothing. Sorry, FYL indeed if you're rich/poor.
kasha_fml 0
I wouldn't even care if I didn't get to go to dinner or anything like that, it's just the fact that OP's parents would choose to buy an unnecessary TV for -themselves- after saying that a dinner out is too expensive. Even if a dinner out in NYC is too expensive, don't just throw salt in the wound by buying a new TV that OP probably isn't even going to enjoy personally (assuming they are moving out soon, being 18 and all).
cat83 0
Where did they get a huge plasma tv for only $800? Am I the only one thinking that's pretty cheap?
Wankster 0
How is this a FML? it's a MLIA. Spoiled bitch you still complain
TrAnMu 0
was it yours?...
natsumosam92 0
Well if you dont want the TV, I will take it off your hands.
hellomynamekeyes 0
Boo hoo, my parents bought me an expensive TV.
lo1337a 1
YDI for incorrectly using an apostrophe.
gemini02 0
Plasma for $800?? They got ripped off, and who the he'll would buy plasma... They suck
fmlsfakerawr 0
wow, way to be an ungrateful bitch. Do you know how many people deserve that tv more than you? Have you ever thought that maybe your parents purchased the tv BEFORE you told them what you wnted. Besides, the tv will last. Food will not.
effmylifexx 0
dude. the tv was for the parents. learn to read.