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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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EdwardJayms 0
If having a community of Hundreds, probably thousands people who trade and battle with people online is weird then every game is weird for every reason. Pokemon is amazing :3 sheer force Nidoking FTW!
WickedPixie 0
I work at a Gamestop, and I'd say about half of the people who purchase Pokemon are in their 20s. It started when we were kids, it's OUR generation's nostalgia. Those two naysayers can go **** themselves.
WickedPixie 0
In fact, a little kid came into my Gamestop and was looking at the newest Pokedex book. I looked right at him and said "When I was your age, there were only 151 Pokemon." He looked at me like "WTF, lady?"
artisticninja713 13
You shouldn't be ashamed of who you are. Put that game on the counter and tell them they can suck your pokeballs
xCrazyMuffin 3
why the **** wud you do that D: !!! IM 19 & I STILL PLAY POKEMON & IM DAMN PROUD OF IT ._."
lesuze 5
YDI for letting some dillhole shame you out of buying/playing something you enjoy!! Nothing wrong with liking Pokemon.
bonyek 0
What pokemon game? I am sixteen and I love pokemon!!!
hobbyjobbon 1
I understand how you would be embarrassed if the cashier were to see you getting the game when he just dissed it, but just say, "Why should I care what you think? " or something of the sort.
kitsune3 20
Psh. Pokemon is like classic Disney movies. You're NEVER too old, and liking it doesn't make you weird. Hell, I'm almost 21 and I'm into everything from Pokemon to yugioh to freaking LEARNING. I am a nerd and damn proud. Accept yourself for who you are, OP. if you do that, nothing anyone else can say or do with ever bother you.
Biebz4Lyf10 0
Should've said 'I'm buying this for my 8 yr old son. It's his birthday in 3 days' DUUH!!