Today, I was getting ready to go out with my family. As I was putting my phone in my purse, my father told me I wouldn't need it because we were going to spend 'quality time' together. The entire time I was there, everyone was staring at their phone. I was the only one without one. FML
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Today, my mother dragged me to the mall to get me out of the house and to get me to stop using my phone. She then spent the whole trip talking on her phone instead of actually interacting with me. FML
Today, my dad and mom and I were going out to eat dinner. My dad wanted a romantic dinner just with my mom so he told me to make an excuse not to go. I did, which ended up as a huge fight, grounded and phone taken away. My dad just stood there in the background putting thumbs up. FML
Today, after my wife and mother in law criticized me for being glued to my phone, I set out to prove them wrong by being away from it. When I finally opened it, my family was upset because my grandma died and they had been trying to reach me for several hours. FML
Today, my friends and I went out to dinner. Being short on cash, I suggested a game where we put our phones in the center of the table and first to check their phone had to pay the bill. Our conversation died out, and fearful of having an awkward silence, I checked my phone. FML
Today, I didn't even bother to turn my cellphone off in a movie theater because I knew no one would text me or call. FML
Today, I went shopping with my parents. Halfway through, I got separated from them and tried to call them only to find out my cell phone battery was flat. A few minutes later, an announcement was made for a lost child. It was by my parents. I'm 36. FML
Today, I was so bored at a family gathering that I pretended to be busy texting the whole time. I don't know what's worse, that I'm not close to anyone in my family, or that I have no one close enough to text to about such things. FML
Today, my mom and dad went off somewhere for some alone time together. My mom had apparently turned her phone off and my dad left his at home. In that span of time, my brother had accidentally locked himself out of his house, and my sister was also trying to get a hold of them, and now are asking me where they're at. FML
Today, I had to be the responsible adult and take my parents' phones away. Most of their time is spent on social media and low-quality brainrot. FML
Today, I went to dinner to meet my boyfriend's parents for the first time. I received a text message, so I pulled out my phone to check. Apparently, his parents have a "No phones at the table rule" and took my phone away until I could learn "proper table manners." FML
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igg125 30
Should have had them put their phones on the middle of the table first one or touch their phone pays the bill.
tantanpanda 26
In this day and age, you probably won't find anyone without a smart phone. You should have brought it in secret, but still, FYL.
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Comments (50)
pooldude 24
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. - Albert Einstein
ColdRoxas 18
Albert Einstein is a genius and can even tell the future just look around outside and you can see it cams true....to a extent
Lalala579121 27
25 - came* an* Seems like the idiot part came true too.
pooldude 24
hey i'll take an idiot over an annoying little prick any day of the week.
Lalala579121 27
Well you have fun trying to talk to people with their noises buried in a phone and your one word conversations, I'll be over here actually enjoying myself.
pooldude 24
Yah you enjoy yourself and when you remember why no one is around you, remember this conversation! ;)
Lalala579121 27
Yes, because one conversation on the internet will suddenly make me have no friends.
foxmatrix15 8
I always call BS on that remember a cell is also for emergencies
redpanda39 10
My family is like that. Any time I go visit my parents they pull out their phones or tablets and then when I get bored and pull mine out too, they complain I'm on my phone too much.
Sathane 21
Say something. I'd they have an issue, walk out.
spicypie 10
I know how you feel, as the youngest person in the family I was often the only one without an electronic, so when ever we did something or went on a road trip, all of my siblings would be on their devices, but in the long run it helped me as a person and with my social skills
asdadfhowrh 23
Well at least you did spend quality time by yourself.
itwasntme14 19
Good idea on your dads part just the execution was terrible. You should've 'called' them out on using their phones.
Rozeyyy 25
ah smartphones... sucking the social life out of people
2013bchan41 20
This is why there are no phones allowed at the table in my house
Geek_Freak 13
Even your dad? Even when he told you to NOT bring your phone. Damn.