Today, I went to dinner to meet my boyfriend's parents for the first time. I received a text message, so I pulled out my phone to check. Apparently, his parents have a "No phones at the table rule" and took my phone away until I could learn "proper table manners." FML
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Today, my boyfriend stood me up. At dinner with his parents. FML
Today, my friends and I went out to dinner. Being short on cash, I suggested a game where we put our phones in the center of the table and first to check their phone had to pay the bill. Our conversation died out, and fearful of having an awkward silence, I checked my phone. FML
Today, I was invited by my boyfriend's parents for dinner at their house. The dinner went well I thought, until I was getting ready to leave. Before I could make it out the front door, I could hear them discussing their disappointment that their son would ever consider someone like me. FML
Today, I had dinner for the first time with my boyfriend's parents. It was awkward enough without his mom asking, "So, what do you do for fun, besides my son?" FML
Today, I was invited to my boyfriend's house for dinner for the first time. His mom made a fantastic dinner, so I showed my appreciation by eating the lot. Apparently I was overdoing it because when I looked up everyone was staring. His dad muttered, "Slow the hell down." FML
Today, I met my boyfriend's father for the first time. We were at a restaurant and my bofriend kept playing footsie with me under the table. When my boyfriend excused himself to go to the restroom, the game of footsie was still going on. FML
Today, I was at dinner with my boyfriend. About 30 minutes into dinner and I see my exes come in, one by one. In the end, they were all sitting at the same table. My boyfriend got up and went to the bathroom. He came back and sat down with them. Apparently my boyfriend went through my phone and called all of them. FML
Today, I found out why my fiancé waited for me to meet his family. We had dinner at their place, the women were not permitted to talk while the men were in the room, also no eye contact with the men, and we had to eat separately. He says he wants me to learn to be a good and decent wife from them. FML
Today, my parents met my boyfriend for the first time. They spent the entire meal trying to convince him to dump me, all while I was sitting right next to him. FML
Today, my dad and mom and I were going out to eat dinner. My dad wanted a romantic dinner just with my mom so he told me to make an excuse not to go. I did, which ended up as a huge fight, grounded and phone taken away. My dad just stood there in the background putting thumbs up. FML
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Jibblets2367 7
It's proper etiquette -.-
AeonForce 0
Are they one of those crazy families that sit in dead silence while they eat, too?
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Comments (178)
KnucklesDeep 5
Why not turn the phone off? Or gain a set of ovaries and take YOUR phone back? Did they take your spine as well?
SlaveToRetail 10
No kidding. I wouldn't sit in silence and just let them treat me like that. Bad first impression on both ends for OP.
Hollandiscrazy 12
I like your feminilisation of YOU DON'T HAVE BALLS. Btw if the word feminilisation doens't exist. I'm sorry. I'm not a native speaker. (But it sounded cool :)
Rommel1942 9
Bitches be crazy. (I assume it was the mom... It's always the mom...)
sabrinaFML 0
Mite have been th granny
WitchyArmyWife00 0
Might have been the dog
van_helsing 6
What the hell?
clcbjj31 0
That's how we do it in Texas. Mind your manners when you're at the table.
Rommel1942 9
Manners.... Psh ;)
flockz 20
"heeey becky, jus got my fone takin away LOL!"
kaykay20 0
Why was he on his phone too if they found it bad manners and weren't they all in the same house anyway? He could have just told her face to face about it.
BruisedGiraffe 15
The boyfriend wasn't on the phone too, she received a text from some one else that wasn't at the table
MissMeanie 5
That's a rule at my place to.
perdix 31
'Specially if it's one of them smarty-pants devices that can tell you the correct usage of to, too and two.
perdix 31
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Bravo! It's about time someone stood up to a rude bitch like you. Among civil people, you should excuse yourself from the table and read the text in private.
AmbrosiaWriter 17
Yeah, except civil people don't STEAL other people's property. Why didn't the boyfriend inform his GF of this rule? Why didn't the parents simply say, "Oh, we don't use phones at the table, please put it away"? Nope, they immediately STOLE her phone from her, which it is. They took her property without her permission and are refusing to give it back based on some arbitrary standard that they have. Not everyone's houses are the same, and what you consider "civil" is not what other people consider "civil." So get off your high horse and please realize not everyone has to assimilate to your biased opinions of how the world should work. I check my phone at the table if I get a text (I have it on vibrate.) Why? Because there might've been an emergency and a lot of my friends and family are more comfortable texting than calling. A text is better because it leaves the notice up on the screen and it's faster to open a text then to dial into a voicemail and input a password and go through the annoying "This call came in at XX:XX time - plays voicemail." So, once again, get the hell off your high horse and don't condone people for stealing other people's property instead of informing said person of the rules of their house. If I was at your house and you took my phone, and refused to give it back to me until your personal standards were met, I would call the police. If you aren't going to respect me by informing me that you don't find what I am doing to be appropriate/respectful, and allow me to correct my behavior based on your rules in your house, to hell with impressing you. I will call the police and make you return my property.
itsame0987 18
Perdix is right. It is not theft, op should learn some freaking manners. Heaven forbid op have to go 30 minutes without her phone. If she doesn't like the rules there then she should be with someone who's parents raised them with no respect or manners.
Shadow_Phantom 26
I don't get why it's rude to have technology at the table. FYL.
perdix 31
It's not that it's technology, it would be rude to have a book or a newspaper at a dinner table. The principle is that you should be giving your undivided attention to the people you are actually dining with.
joa76 3
That depends on your family, though. In my family, we FREQUENTLY have books at the table. We have my whole life. If we go to a restaurant, it is expected that we will all have a book to read while waiting for our food. And it is entirely possible that her family has a rule that she HAS to respond to texts from her parents right away, and she needed to check to see if it was them.
perdix 31
#131, you must be a boring bunch of *******. You can't find anything to talk about with your own family? And if she has to take texts at a table where nobody else has a phone, she should excuse herself from the table to read and respond. Etiquette varies in context. If everyone at a table has books or cell phones, that's one thing, but at the table in the story, only the OP had one.
vivaladino 7
That's no reason to diss joa76's family like that.. Calling them a boring bunch of *******? Now, that's RUDE
perdix 31
Kinda ironic that I was pontificating on the subject of etiquette, huh?
AmbrosiaWriter 17
Etiquette is instilled on how you were raised. How was she to know that no one else at the table had phones? Obviously she didn't, and she wasn't informed in any way that they find it rude to answer a call/text at the table until they took her phone away from her. That's unreasonable. The parents should've requested she turn her phone off or put it away, and if she didn't then they ask her to leave the house. STEALING is NEVER proper etiquette.
kayrose21 4
you shouldn't have been texting at the dinner table anyways. you were there to meet his family and socialize. you deserved it for being rude.
Icecream93 4
As I scrolled down I saw your photo and I was like wow wtf scrolled back and I was thought ohh.
THE_A_TEEN 28
She wasn't texting, you moron. She was checking her phone. God, I hate it when people on this damn comment board assume she's texting when she was not. *******..