Today, it's my mother's birthday. She received the ultimate gift from my brother, who told her he had just been accepted into medical school. I bought her scratch-offs. She won a dollar. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, to prove a point to my brother that playing the lotto isn't a sure thing. I got a $10 scratcher. Thinking I'd get nothing or maybe just another scratcher, I ended up winning a free scratcher plus $100. The second scratcher I got an additional $50. Now he's even more confident he'll win every time. FML
Today, I took my mom out to a fancy restaurant, and spent close to $300 on her Mother's Day present. Later, my little brother drew her a card with crayons on pink construction paper. She cried. He's 20 years-old. FML
Today, my Dad called me to tell me that he had finally won the lottery and that I no longer had to worry about trying to find a way to pay for school. I was so excited I started crying. He then told me that he won $5 on a scratch off lotto ticket. He bought a sandwich. Funny dad. FML
Today, my mother's blatant favouritism of my little brother hit an all time high when she got him his dream car for his 18th birthday, to the tune of £7000. Do you know what she got me for my 18th last year? £10 in a card and a bottle of cheap wine that she ended up drinking herself. FML
Today, my mother-in-law got me a pair of $2 socks for my birthday. Usually, I don't care… until I found out she got my husband's friend, not even best friend, a $100 gift card, and offered him her free hotel room at the casinos. This is the fifth holiday in a row I've received gifts under $10. 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
Today, my sisters and I pitched together nearly $500 to send my mom to the spa for Mother's Day. We put the printed sheet with her info into a little box with our card on top. When she opened it, she freaked out and started hugging my dad. Turns out he switched the cards and took all the credit. FML
Today, my stepmother proved once again that she likes to play favourites. She has no job, so anything she gifts comes from my dad’s account. On my last birthday, I got £5 on a cheap card. Today, my step-brother's birthday, he got £400 and an iPad. He’s 4 years old. FML
Today, my mom won the lottery. My biological mom who I only met last year, after 33 years of not knowing who she was. She is sharing her millions with her kids, but that doesn't include me as I "don't count". FML
Today, I bought my mom a gift certificate for a spa treatment for two so we could spend some quality time together. She took my sister. FML
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MrRager7 1
I would have gotten her something more sentimental. It's your mom, not your friend.
lorenzoman77 7
It's the thought that counts right? Well it's your mom, I'm sure she loved your gift regardless of what it was. Wish her a happy bday for me!
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Comments (134)
bubo_fml 11
"Hey Bro., what's your medical opinion on this?" (Turn around & drop trou...)
Incogneterpeter 1
I don't see how you deserve this how did you know the prize was only going to be $1?
Incogneterpeter 1
And on the bright side you tried to give her money when your brother is now going to need money to go to expensive school..
seafoam11 8
I don't see how getting accepted into a school is a gift-- someone's about to become very, very deep in debt. Sounds like this should be your mom's FML, not yours.
FML_14u2c 14
Cheer up op, Your brother was probably kidding.
bagelpie 6
Better than nothing!
ImFaawkinAmazin 5
LMFAO!
hurley12 30
That's a terrible gift from the start
catherinek 9
Okay well what kind of a gift is a scratch off... Surely you could get her something more meaningful than that. But at the same time your brother getting accepted to medical school, while it may make her happy, isn't really a gift either
JackFaire 27
OP take your brother and his accomplishments out of the equation and it's still a shitty gift not because your brother got her anything, pssst he didn't his "gift" was BS too, but because a lottery ticket is a shitty gift. Your brother's gift was equally crap because it wasn't a gift. "Hey mom I worked hard and accomplished something for myself that will likely never directly benefit you but hey bragging rights" Hell a gift card from either of you would have been better.
sammyjo06 14
Both of you gave her bad gifts. Is your brother so full of himself that he decided to wait to give her the news about getting accepted to med school until her birthday? And you got her scratch-offs? FHL...