Miscellaneous: Today, I asked a woman where her beautiful accent was from....

By anonymus - 18/08/2009 16:33 - United States

Today, I asked a woman where her beautiful accent was from. The woman stared at me for a while. Then her daughter told me that the reason her mother talked like that was because she had a stroke a few months ago. FML

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By Flippy - 29/08/2010 00:05 - United States

Today, at work, I was reprimanded for not engaging with customers enough. In an effort to be more friendly, I complimented the next customer on her interesting accent. Turns out it was from a stroke she had last year. FML

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By Rmglrsm - 23/06/2016 02:21

Today, at work, I was helping someone who really sounded like she had a Boston accent. So, I asked her where she was from. She has never been out of state. Turns out she has a speech impediment. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/05/2012 01:37 - United States - Lawrence

Today, my teenage daughter asked me if accents are hereditary. FML

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By kggggg - 12/08/2010 11:00 - United States

Today, while at my friend's house, I noticed her brother had a bit of an accent. I laughingly said "Is it me or does your little brother have an accent?" She stared and replied with "No, he has autism." FML

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By Holls - 12/04/2012 13:47 - United Kingdom - Bristol

Today, I met a guy while out with some friends. He kept blowing up his cheeks, so I did it back to him and asked him why he did it. He pulled out a card from his wallet and pointed at it. It was a card saying he may have speech or facial difficulties because he had a stroke when he was 12. FML

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By jennag5 - 24/03/2012 06:45 - Canada - Claresholm

Today, two drop dead gorgeous Australians asked me for directions. Being so shocked by their beauty and accents, I couldn't get words out of my mouth. The one said to the other "Nope she doesn't speak English", then walked away. FML

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You OK?

By hellbound - 12/07/2013 16:35 - United States - San Antonio

Today, I received a text from my dad, which was borderline-incomprehensible due to an insane amount of text language. I replied, jokingly asked if he had a stroke while writing it. A few seconds after hitting send, I remembered the stroke he suffered last month. FML

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Foot in mouth

By Noname - 24/02/2009 05:05 - United States

Today, one of my closest friends and I got into a fight. She ended the conversation with, "My grandma just had a stroke. Bye." I didn't believe her so I replied "That's great. Bye." Turns out her Grandma is in the hospital in critical condition. FML

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By elizabethyeo - 20/02/2012 10:01 - Australia

Today, I was speaking to an old friend and I asked her how her mother was. She replied, "She passed away, you came to her funeral last month." FML

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By momolee - 07/07/2012 19:13 - Saudi Arabia - Riyadh

Today, a woman asked why my daughter doesn't look remotely like me. I just smiled and shrugged it off, but the truth is that she looks exactly like I did before I got my botched plastic surgery. FML

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curryndricegirll 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 0:11

at least you didn't make fun of it. if anything, i hope she would feel better since you called her speech beautiful. i mean i know it's still awful, but it's a little better

AndelleRae 9

Wednesday 19 August 2009 0:11

That does suck, but the way this is worded implies that the woman is a stranger. How were you to know she had a stroke? I don't think it's an FML or a YDI. Just kind of embarrassing.

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xHaniffax 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 1:27

she probably thought you were taking the piss

tpag3r 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 1:28

wow i feel stupid, all this time i was pretty sure if someone had a stroke and they came out of it with a cool sounding voice and not disabled or anything, that that was a good thing. how wrong have i been

blakehilli8 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 1:59

haha sucks

annamg 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 2:09

Hey, it's not like you knew any better.

geeztommy 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 2:14

lmaoooooo FYI fersureeeee

opschief 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 2:15

that stupid ****!! you called it beautiful! **** THAT BITCH! Now she's cursed to be a stroke victim AND alone the rest of her pitiful life!!

artcgirl 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 2:25

wow. over-reaction much?

leeny_fml 2

Wednesday 19 August 2009 2:35

You probably just made her day. I can see how it would be embarrassing, but it's not a true FYL.

monkey314159 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 2:58

wait... you were hitting on her in front of her daughter?

Quiet_one 22

Wednesday 19 August 2009 3:01

Most likely, she's happy that you complimented her. She was probably just too surprised to respond at the time, especially since it happened so recently so she's likely to feel self conscious about it and might not be used to people commenting on it yet. What was awkward for you might just have made her feel a little better.

falling_over 0

Wednesday 19 August 2009 3:46

You think its an FML, but I bet she will feel a lot less self conscious about it from now on, knowing that you simply thought it was a nice accent and not a physical problem.