Today, I turned 18. My parents remembered that I loved German chocolate cake, so I awoke to a hot, fudge-filled chocolate cake with a slice cut out just for me. I've been lactose-intolerant for 8 years. As I cried, my mom handed me tissues, while eating the "Happy" part of my cake. 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, my parents brought me an ice cream birthday cake. I would think after 23 years they would remember my lactose intolerance. FML
Today, it was my birthday. My only birthday present was a cake that my dad bought from Walmart. Well, it sure looked tasty. The only problem: it had nuts on it. Guess what I'm highly allergic too? At least my dad told me he'd "tell me how it tastes." FML
Today, my mother turned up drunk at my house with a chocolate cake for my 14th birthday. I'm 27, I haven’t seen her in 6 years, I'm allergic to chocolate, and when she saw that I had 2 kids, she wanted to know why I'd bothered, since kids are always "such a disappointment". FML
Today, my mom told me she is serving lasagna and Italian cream cake at my bridal shower. I'm severely lactose intolerant, which I have been telling her for years. She responded by telling me, and I quote, "The food is for the guests." FML
Today, my mother in-law made dessert. It was a beautiful chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, and every other thing had chocolate in it. I'm deathly allergic to chocolate and she knows this. FML
Today, it was my 17th birthday. I didn't want my family to spend money on a cake, so my dad made this delicious apple ring. At least, it was great until my mouth began to itch and my throat closed. I have been allergic to nuts since birth, and my dad put walnuts in my birthday cake. FML
Today, it's my 18th birthday. Last month was my best friend's 18th birthday. She spent the night with me, and the next morning, my mom and brother gathered in my room and sang "Happy Birthday" as they handed her pancakes with a candle on top. Today, I was woken up by screams to take the trash out. FML
Today, I turned eighteen. Thinking I was going to get a big present from my parents on this special day, I eagerly unwrapped my present. They got me a bag of M and M's. Last year I got flannel bed sheets. FML
Today, I woke up early and spent hours baking and icing a three-tier cake for my friend's eighteenth birthday, which is this evening. I just found out my mother threw it in the compost bin because she's on a diet and it was "tempting" her. FML
Today, my family surprised me for my birthday by showing up with a chocolate cake and my ex-boyfriend from back home. They all forgot I'm allergic to chocolate, that I broke up with him about a year ago, and that he’s been trying to win me back ever since. FML
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chippa 24
OP discovered a cake that they fell madly in love with 8 or more years ago. 8 years ago, they could no longer have this cake or anything else containing dairy products. Today is their 18th birthday. Their family made OP the previously mentioned cake that OP has not been able to eat for 8 years and still cannot eat. OP cried because they can't eat this delicious birthday cake and evidently, their family doesn't know her very well. OP's mom ate a piece of the cake which had a smiley face or something on it. Do you get it now? It's not that hard to understand...
chippa 24
Dude, who cares about the aftermath, eat it anyway.
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Comments (206)
sricious 0
so they remember you like cake.. but you can't eat it.. you should think before you write;)..
schramm 0
wow your life sucks and she's a bitch.
fire_in_the_hole 0
ur life sux p.s can I have some? lol
like_its_ya_bday 0
I had to read this a couple times... fail
SOILEDIT 51
Same here haha
Crazy4Cowboys 0
happy birthday OP:)
like_its_ya_bday 0
lmfao I was just thinking that... o and btw can i have some cake
kaelynn 0
Your parents seem like they might be generous people... remembering what you love... and giving it to you and all... although I find it odd that they'd suddenly forget about your intolerance, since I am sure they prepared several hundred meals for you in the past 8 years. Anyway, being the generous and loving people they are, I imagine they'd have turned around and got you some lactose free cake, if you gave them a gentle adult to adult reminder, instead of crying. That said, Happy Birthday?
kaelynn 0
We're only human...parents forget things too. Think of how fortunate you've been to have great parents all these years.
tiffyxmac 0
cake isn't even all that so it shouldn't really matter.
DrDiamond 0
sucks!!! that's my favorite kind of cake!!! =)
babyqeelove 0
i really dont understand this fml?
buggybeauty 0
grow up & get some lactase enzyme, sissy.
varkey 7
eat a lactase tablet... wow my sister has severe lactose intolerance but can consume any dairy products with no problems if she takes 1 or 2 lactase tablets beforehand and that's not really something to cry over
bmexoxo98 0
iknow!!