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By abc - 27/05/2009 10:15 - Pakistan

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

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By Anonymous - 15/01/2011 15:33 - United States

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

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By Anonymous - 11/12/2009 16:52 - United States

Today, it's my birthday and my friends and I went to our favorite pub to celebrate. As I'm a little broke at the moment, they all offered to buy me birthday drinks. Which I later learned meant that they would order them for me and bring them to the table, but put everything on my tab. FML

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By howrude - 11/09/2009 11:57 - Canada

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

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By jet8725 - 23/02/2009 04:05 - United States

Today, I celebrated my birthday with my friend who has the same birthday by going out to dinner with a bunch of our friends. The waiter brought out a cake for my friend but not for me. No one noticed my exclusion. I sang happy birthday on my birthday. FML

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By Anonymous - 27/09/2009 05:16 - United States

Today, I thought it would be nice to take my girlfriend out to a nice restaurant for my birthday. She got a little headache after we ordered, so she went outside to get some air. I ate a $100 meal and had Happy Birthday sang to me by the restaurant staff. Alone. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/02/2022 18:01

Today, it's my birthday. My wife took me to my favorite restaurant for dinner. She made me pay for my birthday dinner, along with hers. She also got me a gift card to HER favorite store. FML

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By Nothingonyou - 08/09/2010 07:35 - France

Today, it was my birthday. But instead of a decent surprise, my friends decided to smash a cake on my face and unhook my dress, while taking a video of it. In a public shopping mall. FML

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By unappreciated - 25/06/2009 02:38 - United States

Today, I took my best friend out to dinner for my birthday. She gave me a gift after I paid the tab saying, "my mom thought you would like this - it was expensive." It was a lovely set of origami paper, which was the exact set I brought her as a souvenir from Japan. She was right, it was expensive. FML

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By peter - 11/09/2009 04:33 - Indonesia

Today, it's my birthday. I'm a pastry chef by profession. Not only did my family buy a cake from my bakery, I had to make it myself and inscribe it with 'Happy Birthday Dad'. The worst part is, they asked money from me to pay for it. FML

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By Anonymous - 01/10/2020 17:02 - United States - Los Angeles

Today, it was my best friend's birthday party. Her boyfriend and I agreed to organize a dinner date to surprise her and celebrate. They celebrated, but forgot me until they arrived at the restaurant and saw the dinner reservation under my name. FML

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Stunt_fml 5

Wednesday 27 May 2009 16:34

That's pretty crappy on the part of your friends... sure they're real friends?

dearViena 0

Wednesday 27 May 2009 16:35

well see... you didnt get it :] THAT was the real surprise! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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venom7 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 5:56

haha.. sh!!t happens I guess! Well you should have kinda brought it up as a sarcastic joke.. maybe they'd feel wrong about u paying!

SmoothTalker 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 7:08

wonder why the FML staff had to explicitly point out that "this one comes from Pakistan"...I'm not implying anything, I'm simply curious as to the need since FMLs come from all over the world and I'm sure this isn't the first to come from abroad

Templemind47 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 7:37

This happened to me kind of, but that is another FML. But really, nothing is FML worthy. I read these because I am either bored, need a laugh, or trying to procrastinate.

nodbor 11

Thursday 28 May 2009 9:05

high five to #5.

DoctorManhattan 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 9:51

Your friends suck. Whenever I go out for birthday stuff with my friends, it's kind of assumed that the birthday person doesn't pay any part of the bill.

ditzystef 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 16:36

Guys, I'm from Romania, and here it's tradition to take your friends out and pay on your birthday. It might be the same in Pakistan.

ffffffffffmylife 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 16:53

Thats nothing, man, on my birthday my two best friends collected a money pot from all my mates, then used it to buy themselves tickets for "Spamalot". Come to think of it I might post that, it really effing sucked.

Bucinka 5

Tuesday 22 December 2009 17:40

That is definitely an FML. Submit it! I'll vote for it!

Shmoopie4 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 19:02

That's so rude. You might want to get new friends. Sorry your birthday was an FML moment!

Dee_Jayy 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 19:44

This happened to me too, at my last birthday. FML

resident_fml 0

Friday 29 May 2009 0:23

So? Hell, it's not so much them "getting you cake" as them thinking "hey, it's his birthday, there should be cake". I mean, you're paying for the meal, and it's the same place, your friends thought there should be cake on your birthday, since the presumably wasn't, and took care of that. Going all "Hey, I'm taking you out to dinner on my birthday and paying for the meal, that's okay, but the hell I'm paying for this cake, YOU ordered that without my consent!" is just a complete dick move. What's the big deal, just enjoy your birthday already.