Today, I was at church with some friends and our counselor, who had recently came back from Taiwan. I was born there and love to visit, so I immediately exclaimed, "How lucky!" A few seconds of awkward silence later, he said, "I was visiting my dad who was just diagnosed with cancer." 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 saw an old friend while out and about. Since I don't leave the house very often, my friend was surprised to see me in person. He jokingly asked if someone was dying, and I cried in response. I was in fact going to the hospital to say goodbye to my grandma. FML
Today, I serve at church and had a funeral. As I greeted the family, someone asked how I was doing. Without thought, I responded, "Good to be alive." FML
Today, I took my best friend to see her dad in hospital. While they were talking in another room about his care, he took his last lucid words before his death. I was the only one there and I'd never even met him before. FML
Today, I visited my ex-girlfriend's house. I saw her mother and asked, "Hi! Have you recovered from that nasty cold that you had for so long?" She said, "I don't have a cold," to which I smiled and said, "That's great to hear!" Turns out she has lung cancer instead. FML
Today, a customer that I've been waiting on for years came into the restaurant after a long absence. I said to him, "Hey man, it looks like you lost a lot of weight! How'd you do it?" He replied, "I got cancer." FML
Today, I saw my dad for the first time in almost five years, at his funeral. FML
Today, my mom talked me into going to a funeral since my dad wouldn't go. It was for one of her classmates. When it was our time to view the casket, we paused in front of it for a second before my mom leans over to me and says, "What if I told you that was really your dad?" FML
Today, my teacher announced that he'd be out for a week because he was going to Vegas. I happily said, "Woo hoo!" Then he finished his sentence by telling me it was because his dad had died. FML
Today, I'm terminally ill, in a foreign country for treatment, and I was feeling hurt and sad inside, so I rang my parents to just talk, to feel warm and protected. My father told me on the phone with an indifferent tone, "Son, we're out for some shopping and getting groceries, Mom will call you back." They never did. FML
Today, I had no choice but to bring my son to work as a med school professor. I sat him in a chair in a corner while I gave a lecture. To my surprise, he added another word to his limited vocabulary, and screamed it out loud with an ecstatic expression on his face. The word is "cancer". FML
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jamesderp 15
You couldn't have known, not your fault
WCARlover 35
Well you were at church! Should've just said you were really sorry to hear that and suggested all of you to pray for him together!
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Comments (25)
team_garra 8
Damn Daniel
mneill 6
"How Lucky!" "I was visiting my Dad who was just diagnosed with cancer." "...that you got to see him while he was so far away, before things took a much worse turn!"
Radgears47 23
"How lucky you got to visit your loved ones before it was too late!" ?
The_ghetto_mango 25
Yay! You guys have so much in common, like parents having been there, ect....
GEBEH 14
How lucky! Bla bla cancer. Yes, now that inheritance will come sooner rather than later! on the other hand his father is from taiwan so how rich could he be, wow what a waste of a plane ticket
GEBEH 14
#16, Papa if you read my former message I love you, I was young, stupid and didn't know what I was saying
GEBEH 14
#17 I haven't been on this site in years, I was just trying to post some dark humour to see if it would get downvoted(I knew it would), I know it maybe wasn't that good of a joke but really the kind of things you upvote on this site takes the intellect of a child to come up with, and also it gets way boring reading "oh you couldn't have know op" anyways you guys are boring as shiet and have been posting the same replies for 5 years :)
dabaerju 23
Stop talking to yourself.
brocho 26
You didn't know, it's okay.
peterburk 5
台灣難波萬！
The_ghetto_mango 25
What?
taybug1216 12
You didn't know, don't be too hard on yourself!
pandainspandex 19
Reading these situations as FMLs always makes me mad. In no way was this your fault, and your counselor is the one who made it awkward. His responsibility was either to say "yeah, it's beautiful/whatever!" or "no, I had a relative pass away." You apologize, he says it's OK, boom you're done. WHY do people always make it awkward?!
citrusglass 22
Awkward...