Today, I watched as my step-dad put locks on my window, because he's convinced that I've been sneaking out at night. All my mom did was casually remark that I'm fucked if there's ever a fire. 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 overprotective dad bolted all of my windows shut so that I don't turn out like my sister and sneak out or sneak boys in. FML
Today, my dad walked in on me using the bathroom. After rushing out, he yelled at me through the door for not locking it. He made up the "no locking the doors inside the house" rule. FML
Today, I snuck out of the house for a night on the town. When I got back, I found all the doors and windows bolted shut. My sister's laughing face at my bedroom window suggests I'll be spending the rest of the night outside. FML
Today, my thieving, layabout stepmom planted weed in my bedroom and showed my dad. Well, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here, but her smirk and telling me later that I shouldn't fuck with her again seems conclusive to me. Goodbye freedom. FML
Today, I stepped outdoors for a minute. The wind blew the door shut, locking me outside. I've spent the last two hours pounding frantically on the windows, trying to wake my 4 year old son who is inside. I can see him sleeping soundly on the couch. FML
Today, I got home from work to find the door locked and dead bolted, so I used my cell to call the home phone while banging on the door. My stepmom came out of her room, looked right at me, laughed, and went back to bed. This is the fifth time she's done this. FML
Today, my stepmom accused me of creeping around, acting sneaky, and maybe even planning to kill her in her sleep because I’m "still angry at my dad divorcing my mom and marrying her." All I did was get up at 2 a.m. for a pee at coincidentally the same time as she was going outside for a cigarette. FML
Today, we got new doors fitted. There were new locks on the bathroom, to the reluctance of my mother, who thought one of us would lock ourselves in. "Only an idiot would lock themselves in," I said, and shut the door to demonstrate. I locked myself in. FML
Today, I was locked out of my house. After hours of trying to break the door, I found out I accidentally left a window open. The door, however, still needs to be replaced. FML
Today, I again had to quietly sneak in through my bedroom window. I don't live with my parents. I go through my window because my cat thinks everyone who walks in through the door at night is a burglar or something and attacks them. FML
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Top comments
swoozie23 6
Put your own lock on his bedroom door
upyourzlolz 11
In case of fire: 1) Lay down 2) Die
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Comments (185)
motox34 0
U have no hope ever escaping or sneaking out now and if there is a fire ur ******
Spud1996 0
Wow no shit!!
jessimica642 8
Or you know smash the window
jackdup6 3
You dont say?
Enslaved 38
Rapunzel, eh?
DataWog 30
Get a pet rock. Get him a little bed and water dish. Name him 'In case of fire, throw at window'.
KVKdragon 26
If I was in your situation, I'd either break the locks without being too obvious about it (it'd still be able to close, just not locked) or steal the keys one way or another to make secret copies. If you're that desperate in a legit fire, grab a chair or lamp and start smashing ;)
nikijcchz 10
He isn't ur dad y does he even have a say!!!
coletrain11 5
I treat my step father as if he was my birth father. I obey his rules and whatnot because he is still the father figure in my life.
skyyylines 22
Not everyone has a lovely step dad...
thatdesertdude 7
He is married to her mother, so he has every right to do that. And it seems the mom was perfectly ok with the locks being installed.
ohmandapants 17
^ I know you posted this comment before replying to mine, but I couldn't resist replying. Shut up. He has no right. He is not her father. Her mother is an idiot for being "ok" with it. If she wants to discipline her daughter, then it's her job, not his.
AmbrosiaWriter 17
Actually, unless he has officially adopted the OP, I would say that no, he does not have a right do put locks on her windows. Just because he married the OP's mother doesn't magically grant him the authority that her mother and father have - personally, in my opinion, he has to earn that authority. Putting locks on the windows because he THINKS that the OP is sneaking out... no, oh hell no, in my opinion NO parent has the right to do that.
luccmon 6
My step dad has earned my respect. I respect his rules for making my mother happy after my piece of shut bio father left my family for ****** booze and drugs. So perhaps this is a matter of circumstance. Not all stepdads should get shafted so easily just for being a step parent. But no I don't agree with the lock thing. Just had to put my two cents in about that part.
ohmandapants 17
^ but that's your choice. We are saying that legally, step parents do not have any rights. It's great that your step dad was a better father than your biological dad, but that's not always the case. This guy doesn't seem all that great tbh.
phatdaddy62 23
Okay children, shut the **** up and listen. It's the stepfather's house. He is entitled to do what he wishes. You can talk about rights all day long, but just shut the **** up because you don't what you're talking about! She is living in his house. Too bad if she doesn't like it.
ohmandapants 17
^ really, really not grandpa. For all you know he could have moved in with OP and her mom. Does that still make it his house, just because he is the man? I think not. She is not his child. He needs to earn her respect, it is not just handed to him because he is her STEP father. It is her mother's responsibility to discipline her own child.
Scoutman 5
Spoken like someone who has never raised a inherited kid
Mirorbo 27
The only way this could be even worse is if he applies an outside lock to your door and applies it every night before he heads off to bed. Have fun getting to school/work on time should he ever meet that level.
ohmandapants 17
Seriously? Unless he has legal custody, he has no right, no control over you. And your mom is a dumb ass for even allowing him to think that he does. FYL.
thatdesertdude 7
Doesn't the whole step-dad part imply that the OPs mom married they guy? I would think that being legally married to her mom would give him all the legal right that he needs.
citymayer 7
Not for any of the step parents I've had it didn't! I've had two step moms and two stepdads. They were NEVER allowed to have that kind of control over me. It's partly why there were two of each in the first place..
ohmandapants 17
52- do not talk about things which you know absolutely nothing about. Step parents do not have rights unless they adopt the child, being married to the biological parent does not give them any legal authority.
thatdesertdude 7
The moms reaction seems to indicate that she had no objections to the locks, sucks for OP, but I don't think the step dad was in the wrong. I would hope that both people had discussed it prior to installing them. If not, wouldn't the mom be just a little upset if she disagreed?
ohmandapants 17
Dude! Just STOP! He IS in the wrong, numerous people are TELLING YOU he is not right and he has no say in how she is raised or disciplined because he is NOT HER FATHER. We are telling you that he LEGALLY has nothing. Why are you arguing?! The mother is in the wrong too!
runnamuk 6
I don't think anyone would actually care about the legality of a step dad punishing his step daughter. The issue is her safety and whether or not it is being jeopardized with the instillation of bars on her window, and that isn't influenced by whether or not he is biologically related to her.
skyeyez9 25
And yet you think arguing over the internet will make complete strangers change their ways? Get over it.
kel_pie 1
Call CPS... That's crap
TheDoors_fml 2
Eric Forman: What if there's a fire? Red Forman: Well, then I guess you can just light your dope with it, dopehead!
ArrickMorris 4
******* love that show
musicfreak3197 1
Kick his ass.