Today, my mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML
Today, while visiting my in-laws, I went into their home office in search of a sheet of scrap paper. Instead, I found printed copies of every email and IM my husband and I had ever sent each other, including pictures. Highlighted and annotated by his mother. FML
Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, after I got home from school I went to my room to find the maid had cleaned it, also to find a bag labeled "trash" it was all the sketches and paintings I had done in art class, which is my major plan for college. FML
Today, my parents dropped by my new house, and my mother offered to tidy up for me while I was out. After they left, I noticed that her "tidying up" included throwing out all the pictures of my girlfriend and replacing them with pictures of herself. FML
Today, I offered to let my niece and brother stay at my apartment, as my brother was going through a rough divorce and had lost his job. After coming home from work, I found my niece had snapped all of my pencils and had ruined over ten years worth of artwork. FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I came home after a long day at work to find the furniture in my living room had been rearranged by my mother-in-law. When asked how she got in, she told us she stole my husband's key and made herself a copy. She can now come here whenever she wants, unless I change the locks. FML
Today, I got home and found all my things thrown out into the yard, including the stuff from my mancave, which I spent thousands of dollars on. Apparently, my girlfriend stopped for a visit while my wife was home. I’d stupidly given her a key. Turns out my wife called out sick today. FML
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Lythiaren 8
Make her pay for that shit. Seriously.
Mirorbo 27
Ah... it finally made it in. The young lady who controls this character account is the OP for this one. It happened a long time ago, but it still riles her up terribly. The locks have since been changed and little miss tidy-up-without-asking is not allowed to have a copy of the keys. Ever.
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sunnyfaceshy 0
do u look lol a boy
BTA168 1
Hold on.. Your mother-in-law doesn't know her own son is a graphics designer??
Mirorbo 27
She doesn't understand what it is, and as far as what's been said, there is no Spanish term for "Graphic Designer", nor a way to explain it to her. It's a mix of language barriers, her just becoming old, as well as believing she has the right to do as she pleases, being the Mother and all.
klyxes 1
not sure if you meant a translation or not, but graphic designer is dise~nador grafico (don't know how to put the ~ over the n). Since i don't know much about it, i read that: they find the most effective way to get messages across in print and electronic media . That i think, is basically making drawings or designs to advertise. Maybe you can just tell her that. I really doubt it ,but hope this helps.
G6chick 0
wtf
Skatejock21 0
Wow, I couldn't imagine how pissed off you guys must have been!
sbjc2004 0
Tell her to stay the hell out of ur house or u'll put her in the WORST nursing home in the country.
cheesecake_36 6
honestly she should have minded re own business and not touch any of that stuff!
classicboy19 0
hi.......Agreed wid u miss
EarAcheMyEYE10 2
Go make a surprise visit to her house and throw away her clothes (messy room) then "scribble" on her walls.... ecuzee!!!
Happiness2Joy 3
Have a serious talk with her... and then make her do all the house work until your finished all your rough sketches again. I recommend that you do these very slowly..
sk8trdud3924 0
get a new job that's gay
Mirorbo 27
I don't think there are gay jobs for straight folk. Or if there are, it may be a fairly awkward environment.