Today, my boyfriend and I had breakfast with his grandmother. She told him how I'm prettier than "that Mexican" he'd brought home for dinner last week. We had dinner with her last week, and I'm that same Mexican. She then went on to how Mexicans are what's wrong with the economy. 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, I was at my boyfriend's grandmother's house meeting her for the first time. I excused myself to the restroom and as I walked out of the room I heard her say, "You could do a lot better. She's fat." Then I heard my boyfriend reply, "I know." FML
Today, I showed up at my boyfriend's work to surprise him by speaking in Spanish, his first language. I've been taking classes secretly. He smiled, kissed me, and then finished telling his friend, in Spanish, that I'm boring and ugly but he's got nothing better going on. FML
Today, while doing the grocery shopping with my boyfriend we came across another woman also out shopping, who looked shockingly like me despite her being another race, hair color and the like. The second he saw her, he blurted out, ''Oh, it's a pretty version of you!'' FML
Today, I was hanging with my boyfriend. When his mom came to pick him up, he introduced me. She talked to me politely and I thought we hit it off very well. As I was walking away, I heard her say, "That's your new girlfriend? Honey, you could do so much better." FML
Today, my fiancé and I visited his family for dinner. The entire time I was there, his mother and sister had an in depth conversation about how attractive his ex girlfriends were and how they got along with them so well. FML
Today, while having dinner with my boyfriend's family, his mom told me that it looks like I've gained quite some weight. When my boyfriend told her that this was a rude thing to say, she said it wasn't rude, just the truth. FML
Today, my boyfriend compared me to an unattractive actress. When I said it was sort of messed up to say that to me since she's not pretty, he said, "She's not as bad as you." FML
Today, my now-ex boyfriend treated our waitress like shit. She was a young lady who just came from Venezuela and barely spoke English. He gave her no tip, ranted about “fixing this goddamn border problem” along with xenophobic slurs. Apparently, he’d forgotten I’m an immigrant too, from Colombia. FML
Today, I was having lunch with my fiancé's family. After he excused himself to use the bathroom, his grandmother glared at me, sneered, "I never liked you" and kept eating while the others smirked. When my fiancé returned, everyone pretended nothing had happened. FML
Today, my boyfriend and I were at a restaurant with a few other couples, and my boyfriend started to rant on how "all the hot chicks are dumb." Apparently, I'm either ugly or stupid. FML
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TBelle4Ever 15
Oh Grandma, is your Alzheimer's acting up again?
Rddvl 11
Well at least now you know if you ever mess up in front of her, she'll forget about it within a week!
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Comments (108)
Major_General 10
Sounds like Grandma's right.
zombiekitten87 12
Sounds like my crazy grandma. She once told me that black people have to wear special make up on tv or else they will look green. Grandmas are insane. Eta: actually, she may have said "the coloreds"
Metallica36176 16
Either she's senile or doesn't like you and she's just hinting. But I was expecting something along the lines of "he went on a date with a Mexican girl last week. I've been with him for 2 months and I'm not Mexican" kinda thing...hm.
benmec 18
Shame on you for being a Mexican. Why you gotta ruin the economy?
dancer4life143 13
I'm sorry op :/ grandmas tend to be like that though. My grandma had alzeimers and whenever she saw me she'd rant about how much she hated Americans (I'm American, she was Australian), you just have to learn to ignore it and remember she doesn't fully know what she's saying.
Turcdiglos 0
Cut the old girl some slack. Racism is obviously not acceptable in any for but for some of the older generation that behaviour is so deeply ingrained in them that regardless of how hard they may try the odd comment is bound to slip out. Hopefully it was a on off comment and not indicative of her true feelings or behaviour
1crabbygirl 10
Old people get away with murder. She is a racist dirtbag, and that was probably her sneaky way of letting you know what she really thinks. Why do people let them off the hook?! It's the upside of stereotyping for the elderly!
winnie_moline 6
This is more of a fhl
skyeyez9 25
Some people just hate anybody who does not look like themselves. I had prejudice remarks spouted at me often when I was a kid and teen because my mom is japanese and married to a white guy. I grew up in a mainly white middle class neighborhood. I remember one parent standing there and encouraging her brats to call me racist names...all while using their index fingers to make their eyes slanted while they yelled their bs.
1crabbygirl 10
I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope those kids grew up to learn to be better people than their parents.
skyeyez9 25
Karma got them. About 2yrs later their alcoholic dad got sent to prison for his 15+ DUI. Mom left and living on welfare with 5 unruly brats. I heard the eldest boy (the one who treated me the worst) lives in a run down trailer and works in a flea market ticket booth.
Mademoiselle_fml 34
I'm glad karma bit them in the ass. I also got picked on for having Asian-looking eyes (but I'm Mexican! o.o) and now all of those assholes are either pregnant or working at a fast-food restaurant and living with their parents.
perdix 31
What an ignorant asshole! If it weren't for Mexicans, our economy would we in all-out depression. It's the greedy Wall Street types that cooked up Ponzi schemes and other frauds that collapsed and almost sunk the American economy altogether. Your dumb, bigoted grandma needs to get her facts straight!