Today, my dad spent 30 minutes incorrectly correcting me about our legal system. He thinks he knows more than me because he's been divorced twice. I'm a lawyer. FML
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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, yet again, I got into an argument with my dad. I have a PhD in the subject. But he's "entitled to his opinion", for, as he said, he's read a summary of the history of the country in a tourist guidebook, and the general view doesn't have to be based on more detailed information. He also corrects me when I speak the language, which he doesn't know. FML
Today, my parents want me to become a lawyer, all because our family members keep getting into feuds and court cases. I'm a successful developer, and run my own company. FML
Today, my dad got angry with me for not watching "Better Call Saul" with him, because he thinks it will help me with law school. He did this while I was actually reading for a class taught by the top health law professor in the country. FML
Today, my dad got mad at me for not believing him when he kept repeating that our dear leader was appointing Judge Judy to the government. I then found out he wasn't far off, so I don't know which is worse, that he was technically correct about some TV judge, or that the actual "judge" is even worse. FML
Today, my 61 year-old father snatched a letter from my hands and threw four different fits because he misread it four different times, then yelled at me for "not reading it properly." I had to explain it to him. FML
Today, after getting into an argument with my dad, he told me that I would make a great ex wife one day. FML
Today, despite having the same parents, I'm a lawyer and my brother is a redneck. He called wanting my advice, because he tried to book a prostitute online but when she turned up, she was a Latvian mail-order bride, and he wants me to fix it with my "big city law degree." FML
Today, it became apparent that my father knows more about my boyfriend than I do because he spends so much time interrogating him. FML
Today, an internet repair tech thought my dad was my husband, and seemed skeptical when I corrected him. People usually think I'm way younger than my actual age. FML
Today, I tried fixing my dad's lawnmower after he said, "Girls can't change a lightbulb right, let alone fix a machine." An hour later, when I had the lawnmower running again, he bitched me out for trying to make him "look stupid." He's been sulking and acting pissy ever since. FML
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Steffi3 40
Sounds like he's divorced for a reason
whycantisignup 24
Wow, he must be AWFUL at courting. Huehuehue
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TheEpicKitten 20
Was he right?
renrioku 15
Well clearly if OP spent 30 minutes arguing why he was wrong, I would assume not.
mila90 16
Sorry OP, I'm also a lawyer here in Mexico and this happens to me way too often, some family members think they know everything because they saw it on t.v. Or heard something about a similar case... so yeah it can be very frustrating!
megunn 1
I feel your pain. I'll have been licensed for 20 years this May, and have spent almost all that time practicing criminal law. In addition to having briefly been a cop upwards of 40 years ago, my father served on a jury last year in a murder case. Guess who now knows EVERYTHING about criminal law (something I would personally never claim, because I learn new things all the time!), and can somehow bring a conversation about absolutely anything under the sun around to what happened with that trial? Take a deep breath and "go into the zone". There is no way to win this one.
Arcane85 1
Oh boy, do I know the feeling. At a birthday party for my nephew a while back, both my sister and her new boyfriend were harassing me for legal advise, since I'm a lawyer and they were both in the middle of a divorce. Apparently they didn't like the answers they were given, so I was wrong and they were right. Only when a friend of hers confirmed what I said, did they believe me. The friend works at a welding station in a factory and was right, I'm a lawyer but don't know what I'm talking about. FML indeed...
Corneliapresent 13
Indeed there's no cure for ignorance ... Just be the bigger person, let him have his moment of victory. Probably your dad is a bit insecure about his abilities and maybe he wants to asserts his dominance in front of you. If you know what you're worth, you don't need other people to agree with you and you can easily listen to what the other person has to say. Even from stupid people you can learn something, which is: they're not worth listening to ;-)
someguyhere 12
The question at hand is here is what type of lawyer are you? If you practice something other than that there is a chance he might be right. That goes for any profession there are multiple fields practice. Example Doctors.
ZorroRooster 19
Good thing you didn't get his idiot gene.
russfml 31
I know that all too well, I have a friend who is apparently pro at everything, even first time he does it. FYL OP some people are too thick skulled to realize school/practice/training is what gets creditable skills and knowledge