Today, after 38 years of never meeting my dad, and paying a private investigator thousands of pounds over several weeks of searching, I found him living 2 floors down in the same block of flats. He’s the grouchy downstairs neighbour I’ve hated for 6 years. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I found out that the weird guy that lives next door is my biological father. FML
Today, I tracked down my birth dad. He lives in a massive house, with a wife and two kids, 3 cars and a fucking sailboat on the drive. My mom and I grew up in poverty, but I was calm when I confronted him. He had his gardeners throw me into the street like I was inconvenient trash. FML
Today, after my dad ran off 15 years ago, during which time my mom died, and I had to become my brother's legal guardian and somehow get both me and then him through university while working 4 jobs, my dad turned up on our street. He tried to flirt with me, because he didn’t recognise me. Scumbag. FML
Today, my father found out that his estranged dad wasn't in jail for driving into a bus lane of people. He just divorced his mum, moved to Kent, and started a new family. FML
Today, I met my biological father for the first time. He seemed to be slightly intoxicated from the outset, and less than half an hour later, he had tried to intimidate me into "loaning" him several hundred euros for reasons he wouldn't tell me. So long, "dad". FML
Today, I found my biological father, who I have never met, on facebook and decided to message him. He blocked me. FML
Today, after spending a few weeks getting to know my birth father and thinking he seemed decent, he's realised my adoptive parents aren’t rich and no, I can’t lend him a few grand. Now, he’s vanished and written several nasty Facebook posts about not being able to trust family. FML
Today, after I spent years, and thousands of dollars, searching for my birth father, he changed his mind about adopting me. FML
Today, I asked my mom to tell me how she met my dad, because after 15 years me and my dad are finally working on our relationship. My mom thought it was a good time to tell me he’s not my father, and that my biological father wants to meet me this week. FML
Today, I found out my dad tells everyone I’m still living in his house farting around on the internet. I’m a software engineer and I invest in the stock markets. I live in his house because I bought it off him when he fell behind on his own mortgage. I’ve been earning more than him since I was 22. FML
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Top comments
manb91uk 22
Oh well, at least you have some common ground... Literally 😂
Glowworm56 27
Dad was living right under your nose all this time.
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Comments (16)
interesting33 37
that sounds like a big coincidence!!
manb91uk 22
Oh well, at least you have some common ground... Literally 😂
Glowworm56 27
Dad was living right under your nose all this time.
Emma Eisnor 15
Oh the irony 😂
RichardPencil 32
Maybe you should become a PI — you’re more effective than a highly-paid pro! Sorry about your discovery — sounds like a shitty Charles Dickens novel, “Unmet Expectations.”
LAUGHINGKOMODO 25
I think the PI found that out for them. If they have been living there for 6 years, and not find that out, that would make them a shitty PI I think at least.
RichardPencil 32
I read it that the PI was unsuccessful, and that the OP himself found the dad. In either case, the coincidence is Dickensian!
ARISKomuniszt 24
Did he know all along?
Lobby_Bee 18
You only hate him because you see yourself in him.
DanielleinDC 34
And then you realize that, hey, maybe it's for the best that you never knew your dad. The sucky part is that you paid so much for a private investigator to discover he lives in the same block of flats.
ThatGuy9679 13
it's a small world
TrippyEyes 16
As a man who's very fond of puns, I was disappointed upon visiting the comments section