Today, I was with my grandma waiting in a line. She only speaks Chinese and there was a black man in front of us talking his phone. My grandma tells me that the black man's really loud and annoying. The man finishes and turns and said fluently in Chinese, "What's wrong with loud black men?" FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a customer called me "chink eyes", "dog eater", "bloody Chinese communist" and "ching chong." I'm black. FML
Today, I had to explain to my grandmother why, "What a nice singing voice! He doesn't sound black at all!" is not a compliment. FML
Today, I was at a restaurant with my grandma. A young, ripped gentleman suddenly walked through the door and my grandma looked at him and shouted, "Look! Eye candy!" as loud as she could. He heard it and was extremely embarrassed. To make it worse, my grandma is a widow, so she might have actually meant it. FML
Today, at our usual family gathering, Big Grandpa, the family patriarch, said with his loud super authoritative voice, "Hey! Where is granddaughter?" I responded, "Here, Grandpa!" He then disgruntledly yelled, "NO! I meant my PRETTY granddaughter!" FML
Today, I saw my grandmother. All of my cousins and I went to say hi to her, one by one. When I got up to her and said, "Hi grandma!", she said in Chinese, "I don't remember this one." FML
Today, I was eating at a Chinese restaurant, when I stopped the waitress to tell her that even though I am of Chinese heritage, I can't understand a word of Chinese. After an awkward silence, she told me she was actually speaking English. FML
Today, my grandmother called me in a fit of panic because her new neighbors are black. So is my fiancé, whom she is supposed to meet tomorrow. FML
Today, none of us had any idea that our grandfather was a huge racist until I brought my new girlfriend over to a family gathering, and he started yelling because she's Indian, some of the most disgusting racial slurs I’ve ever heard. We left when it looked like he might actually hit her. FML
Today, I went to visit my senile grandma, since she's ill and nobody else in the family visits her. I ended up having to sit through a long rant about the Illuminati, black people, and how we'd have a cure for the common cold already if it weren't for "those god damned foreigners". FML
Today, against my wishes, my wife insisted we let my horrible mother meet her first grandson. This is a woman who refuses to learn basic English, but for the sake of insulting my wife who doesn’t speak Chinese, she still managed to say in English, “Baby so ugly, you do better with next one.” FML
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kotton720 0
wow hardly anyone can speak chinese fluently nowadays.
amelinat 0
You know it sounds like Mr. Black man was more annoyed by the fact that granma specifically mentioned that he was black. My grandma doesnt speak English either and she would have said the exact same thing. Has anyone seen that "Professor Badass" picture that floats around the net? Thats the picture I have in my mind for this guy.
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Cogeno 0
I remember when making an order at Tim Horton's one day in Gatineau (A city in Quebec that shares provincial borders with Ottawa), and I made my order in English. At which point, the **** behind the counter goes to the back while saying "Stupid English people" in French. I went to the bathroom, and when I came back, I went said to my friend "Damn French people, eh?". Her face matched her hair after that.
Loosechange 0
#122 You are a win.
Makinitez 0
AWW, nice! Burn!
dragoon9401 0
My grandma does this all the time, she also only speaks chinese
Compass 0
How does OP deserve it? Her grandma embarassed her while she was standing innocently in line, minding her own business.
Compass 0
Today, I posted an FML about my grandmother embarassing me, the ratio of FYL to YDI is 3:2. I didnt even do anything. FML.
caomei 0
an African American speaking fluent Chinese? damn he probably knows more than me...
nickperry21 4
EPIC!
theneenja 0
that's awaome lol
redbeater 5
People that talk shit about others in a other language are true assholes. Good thing it was your mother and not you.
komina 0
grandma aren't racist it's just that alot of asian grandmas use that way to describe a person that doesn't make them racist... and grandmas don't get alot of education back in their time so they think it's hard to go to school so just because they were here for ages doesn't mean they dare to go learn English..so don't be hatin on this grandma for those people who r for these reasons..