Today, I learned that I've married into a family that talks to movie characters as they’re doing stuff in the movie. Good luck hearing the dialogue now. 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 practiced my wedding vows in front of the mirror we have in the hallway. When I was done, I heard clapping from my living room. Turns out my fiancé’s parents had come over early for dinner and had heard everything. FML
Today, I was having a conversation with my husband when our daughter walked in and shouted at us, “For god's sake, will you two either stop shouting or buy some fucking hearing aids.” That’s when we realised we might be going deaf, given that we've been saying “Pardon?” or “What?” without noticing. FML
Today, I met my boyfriend's family. He calls his parents things like “geriatric hag” and “old clown”. I was about to yell at him, but they started calling him “nancy boy” and “nerd”. Apparently they love each other, but only communicate through abuse. I can’t believe I may soon marry into this mess. FML
Today, the TV was blaring, the kids were yelling, and my wife was blabbering on in my ear. Overwhelmed, I shouted, "EVERYONE QUIET!" I got a second of blessed silence before my kids started screaming and crying, and my wife threw a tantrum, saying, "I married a psycho!" FML
Today, my new wife and I got home from our honeymoon, and not an hour later she'd sat me down for a talk, saying, "Now that you're married you've got to act the part and give up this silly nonsense," then banned me from seeing my friends, playing video games, and basically everything else I ever enjoyed. FML
Today, after meeting my boyfriend's family for the first time, I found out that he, his sister, and their father enjoy talking loudly over the person who is currently talking, because what anyone else says is not worth listening to. FML
Today, I met my husband's family for the first time. My nightmare versions were better. FML
Today, I discovered that my recent binge-watching of “Young Sheldon” has caused me to hear Jim Parsons’s voice narrating everything I read. Including this FML. FML
Today, I found out my family doesn't actually use the secret codeword we've had since childhood for when we’re in trouble. They've just been saying it around me for years because they thought it was funny. FML
Today, my husband got on a business call, but he was not using his usual booming, baritone voice. Instead, he was soft and sweet and began with, "Hey, how have you been?" and quickly went into his office. Curious, I listened outside his door. It was a female co-worker. The work talk was waaaay too fun and familiar. FML
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sherri_baby88 36
Subtitles are your new best friend.
alex_jaguara 33
You can always tell them:"Would you be so kind to shut the **** up?"
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sherri_baby88 36
Subtitles are your new best friend.
alex_jaguara 33
You can always tell them:"Would you be so kind to shut the **** up?"
RichardPencil 32
What movie is that from?
Inkoseh 33
Every single one from now on for OP, apparently!
Inkoseh 33
Augh yeah that stinks, I'm sorry. My husband and I do this during movie reruns though and we laugh about crap during the whole thing. But we NEVER do it with other company around. If the family you married into have been doing it for a long time and have never had to watch with others, it'll be a hard habit to break. Best is to never watch a new movie with them and kindly ask/remind every single time to not talk so you can hear! Yeah subtitles exist, but it really can downplay your first experience.
Chazzster 32
So don’t watch movies with the in-laws. Hopefully your spouse doesn’t do that - If your spouse did you must have known it when you married them.
Brightside86 31
That actually sounds kind of fun. Always seemed weird to me that movies are both a social thing and a shutup and be quiet thing.
Chazzster 32
There are movie talkers and there are those of us who want to catch all the dialog. It’s best not to mix the two.
dasin 18
i dont have a problem with a bit of talking make it fun, but to many people talking at once at high volume is another thing
CA91 9
ask to put the subtitles on?
grumblebum 16
My friend loves to have movie nights, trouble is that her family are super loud and have screamtalks with each other all through the movie. Last time I was there, her twenty-something daughter got home and had to tell everyone exactly what she did all evening, her normal volume is scream, her husband had to tell everyone about his new hearing aid, his normal volume is yell, the son was telling everyone about his day, his volume is slightly less than yell. All these conversations were going on at the same time. Then they decided to show us how their new home hub worked, cue four people screaming "HEY GOOGLE" over the top of each other. I barely heard any of the dialogue
spinspinsugar 12
ugh, sounds like my in laws. I never knew a family could be so loud until my husband and I started dating
spinspinsugar 12
Talk about one extreme or another, I used to see this guy whose dad would literally pause the TV show/movie EVERY TIME someone talked.