Today, while waiting in line at Gamestop, another customer and the cashier started chatting about how Pokémon is for kids, and anyone over 10 who's into it is weird. Embarrassed, I put the new Pokémon game back on the shelf and snuck out of the store. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I babysat a 10-year-old and we played Pokémon. It was my first time playing, so he showed me. I ended up winning and the kid started crying and told his parents he hated me. They decided not to pay me for the night, and now I'm out of a job. FML
Today, my husband bought a Pokémon game and started playing it in bed. It's like I'm married to an eight year-old boy. Why can't I have a normal man, who reads books or even plays normal games for an adult? I can barely look at him without feeling ashamed for settling with such an overgrown child. FML
Today, at work, my buddy pulled up in his car. I handed him $40, and he handed me a bag. It must have looked like a drug deal, but he was actually just smuggling in the new Pokémon game for me. I'm 22, and a drug deal would probably have been less embarrassing to explain. FML
Today, I was at a gas station when the cash register made a sound effect similar to one from Sonic the Hedgehog, and I pointed this out. The cashier then saw fit to go on a rant about how I need to stop focusing on video games, and get a life and a girlfriend. FML
Today, my mom and I somehow got into a serious argument over the ethics of capturing and training Pokémon. FML
Today, I bought How To Train Your Dragon and the cashier started complaining how her kids keep demanding dragon stuff and that mine will start after they see the movie. I don't have any kids, and I didn't have the courage to tell her I was buying it for myself. FML
Today, working my job, I had to explain to a kid that Pokemon is owned by Nintendo and they don't make it for the Xbox. Upset by this, he took hold of my leg and started biting. I'm also suspended, because his mother complained when I kicked him off me. FML
Today, I tried buying a video game that was rated "M - for mature". The Cashier told me "you have to be 17 to buy this game". I didn't have any ID on me. I'm 25. FML
Today, I was out shopping with my son and unbeknownst to me, he had secretly added a bunch of expensive games he wanted to the trolley. I was too embarrassed at the till to make a fuss as there was a huge line behind me. I watched as my normal £50 shopping bill climbed to over £400. FML
Today, while shopping, I saw a little girl and her mom. The girl was pouting so I tried to cheer her up by asking her if she was a princess, because she was so pretty. She smiled but her mom looked at me with disgust and told me to, "Get lost, pedo." I'm a 17-year-old girl. FML
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Sl1mShad3y 10
I wouldve walked right up and said how much is this game?
Brock2607 3
Pokemon rocks!
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Comments (648)
monomiscuous 8
Awww.. Poor you... Just get it. You don't have to feel judged. Those ppl are lame.
Jujubilee 1
You deserve it OP! Why the hell do you care what they think? It's your money and your life. Now you have no new pokemon game to play!
Flamedude101 4
SCEW THEM. I am 14 years old and i proudly acclaim that I play pokemon and have infact Caught e'm All So if anyone says else wise they can just go piss off. Besides when kids are younger than 10 they dont even know how to play the game properly
Imlovinitxx 0
Screw what they think. If u like it get it.
elbia21 5
Soo did ppl decide to change they're pics once they read this to pokemon themed pics? Or did the pokenerds decide to comment on this just cuz it talked about pokemon? (nothing against pokenerds! I love pokemon!)
stevenmx86 8
Seriously pathetic for allowing some people talking to keep you from getting a game... Sad...
tina1213 0
U should of brought just to prove u r not influenced by others n r independent when u make ur decisions
NorfolkDude 2
The thing I don't get about video games is why people discuss maturity over it? I mean like when you look at this topic, for example, you see a lot of people make discussions about "10 years old" and how they could not understand or mishandle the game. Why? After you play a game, nothing happens. You just wasted 15-20 minutes playing it, and my guess is that due to this realization of time wasted and better spent, people then become defensive and they talk about others level of maturity as a way to validate their game playing. If you play video games, then why can't it be for fun? Why must topics of "maturity" be brought up? What reasons behind this new phenomenon? I remember back in the days of NES when things were either "cool" or "awesome." Now games are like, "Nuh-uh, my pokedeck is better than yours, I'm so mature, I got them all and you're 10 years old, heheheheh."
SPC117 5
but is you never buy the game then you'll never CATCH 'EM ALL! catch your pokémon young trainer
Raesin 21
lol My mother's 54 and likes playing Pokemon. I'm 21 and I still enjoy playing it. Take it away from the crappy show and it's just an RPG game. Why does fun always have to have an age limit? Why can't you have fun when you're an 'adult'? And why do people assume that because you like something that you jack-off to it? Do you losers jack-off to Family Guy and shit like that?