Today, is my little sister's 16th birthday. I spent my last $20 on a gift for her, cleaned the house for her party, made an ice cream cake, and got her a rose. What did I get? "I hope you kept the receipt for this. Oh, and stay in your room during my party." FML
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Today, my sisters and I were throwing my mom a birthday party. Since I'm not good at baking, I ordered her a really nice and expensive cake. As my daughter and I were headed out the door, she told me she had added some sprinkles to make it pretty. It was the silica beads from a package. FML
Today, it's my sixteenth birthday. The only gift I got was a bill from my parents. Apparently, the rent is due on the 1st. FML
Today, it is mine and my twin sister's birthday. We both wanted a day at the spa for our birthday. My sister got a gift certificate to the spa, while I got mouthwash and a $20 gift card to Target. My mom said it would cost too much to make me also pretty. FML
Today, my sister was meant to come over for lunch for my birthday. Turns out, she forgot about it. FML
Today, I walked in on my sister and a few of my roommates planning a surprise party for a fellow roommate whose birthday is a week away. My birthday was yesterday. No one remembered. Not even my own sister. FML
Today, it's my 16th birthday. My parents forgot about it, and planned a weekend out of town. I was alone on my birthday. FML
Today, I spent $70 on party supplies for my sister's bachelorette party, another hour decorating, three hours baking and designing a cake, before waiting five hours to hear that she and another bridesmaid had 'moved' the party elsewhere. Cake anyone? FML
Today, it was my Sweet 16. My cousin threw a tantrum in the middle of it. She popped balloons, threw chairs around, and threw my gifts off the balcony. Reason being, she turned 16 last year and didn’t get a party. She perhaps forgot that last year we were in a pandemic. FML
Today, my mother flipped out that I spent $20 on a gift for myself for my birthday. Instead of getting a gift for me, she spent $300 on a new vacuum cleaner, and claims that we didn't have enough left in our budget to spend on me. FML
Today, I got a birthday card from my parents. It was my sister's from earlier in the year. They scratched out her name and wrote mine underneath. FML
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Allennis44 16
Take the gift and eat the ice cream cake on your own
ZY1431 24
I would've taken the gift back, got my money back and got myself something.
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Comments (204)
metalcrazed 21
Wow,wish I had a sister like you! Hopefully she will grown out of the selfish phase.
jblumz 15
Return the gift, buy a *****, and go to the party saying "Hey, look what I found in *insert sister's name here* room!"
abbymackenziee 20
I'm sorry OP, your sister is a brat.
ROMEnt 2
Sounds like a normal 16 year old girl to me. I have raised two of them. The people saying punch her or take her present must have NO experience with girls from 14 to about 18. Girls are not very tolerable at that age. They are like puppies, what they can't pee on they chew up. Unfortunately this is usually their mother and siblings.
skyeyez9 25
Not all teenage girls are ungrateful narcissists.
tukies 28
My sister, though sometime annoying, was outright amazing to me. We are a few years apart, and even I wondered sometimes why I got to hang out with high school kids. Not all teenage girls are the same, and some need to be shown they are ungrateful. Some go through a phase which is cool, other are just horrible.
SuperMew 22
That is the flippant attitude about behavior that makes them think they can act like that. Also, if your kids are peeing on things, then you need to really rethink your parenting style. I had my dramatic moments, because **** hormones and puberty, but my parents demanded respect and my attitude was not acceptable. I learned when my mom said, "You are getting an attitude" I better stop talking or acting like that or I lost out on something fun. I am not sure how your parenting style is, but you are the parent and do not have to take that from your kids.
skittyskatbrat 19
Normal to do it ONCE. And then you march that kid straight to the older sibling, and you make her apologize, in detail, for her behavior. And then you make her thank them, in detail, for all that they did. And the second time? Party is off. Ice cream cake is eaten by everyone BUT her. Presents go back to the store. ONE teenage-bitch moment every few months is normal. But as a parent, you don't dismiss it. You step up to the plate, you parent that kid, and you draw the line at that sort of behavior. And there is a big fat "Or Else" backing it up too. Cell phones can be sold, routers/modems can be password-protected, after-school activities can be dropped. It's only typical-teenage-girl behavior once in a blue moon. More than that? Either the kid has issues, or the parent isn't parenting.
Quiet_one 22
Ugh. Hopefully she'll outgrow her "ungrateful bitch" phase in a couple years. You should return the gift, keep the money, and take the cake over to a friend's house so you can enjoy it with someone who will appreciate it. She'll whine about that too, but maybe next time she'll at least fake some gratitude. Kudos to you for (presumably) staying calm. If one of my younger siblings treated me that way after I went to all that effort I'd probably explode.
rec_chem 22
It can't be the first time she ever acted like that. You had to know in advance that your sister is an ungrateful bitch, and yet you did nice things for her anyway. Ydi.
MrE187 12
What a b!tch
MysteryGuest214 10
Well, at least you know what you're doing for her next year! Hint: N O T H I N G
lightanddark 17
make a mess, eat the cake, and embarrass her in front of her friends. that'll teach her
azyjazy713 11
Sounds like a 16 year old girl all right