Today, after two weeks of trying to convince my parents to go to my high school graduation. They finally gave in. After they handed me my diploma, they decided to leave because it was "too boring." I'm currently sitting on the curb of the street waiting for my Uber, while people take pictures of me. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it was my college graduation ceremony. My parents didn’t come because they “forgot”, although I told them and had been reminding them for months. Last year was my little sister’s high school graduation. My parents wasted no time going to her ceremony and then took her out to dinner. FML
Today, it was my high school graduation. Everything was going fine until everyone saw my family fighting over where we would go afterwards. Security had to pull them apart. FML
Today, I attended my graduation ceremony. My parents acted mysteriously and kept urging me to go home, since we had to be "on time" for something. Thinking they might have planned a surprise party, I left my friends behind. I missed my graduation because my mom wanted to watch a TV show. FML
Today, I found out nobody in my family wants to come to my college graduation. I spent four years and $60,000 to be the first person in my family to go to college, and nobody wants to see me graduate because the four hour ceremony is "too long." FML
Today was the last my last day of high school ever, to celebrate me and my friends were going to go into the city and hang out for a bit. I missed the bus they caught into the city so I caught the next one, when I got there I asked where they were. They didn't respond. FML
Today, my mom told me that on my graduation day, the reason she (and my dad) almost didn't show up was because they had to spend almost an hour convincing my grandma to attend. FML
Today, I tripped in front of my graduation class of 225 and all of their relatives while receiving my diploma. FML
Today, nobody wanted to come to my graduation after finding out that my father was coming too. FML
Today, it was time to take graduation cap and gown pics. My cap didn't fit on my head. I'd specifically requested that they make it much larger, but they didn't. When someone tried to force it onto my head, it tore apart. So now I have no graduation cap. I'm so fucking done. Only 2 weeks left. FML
Today, It's been two years since I graduated from high school. The people in my grade excluded me from social activities and wouldn't talk to me. I dropped out of college when the same trends ensued and people treated me the same. For now, at 20, I serve drive-thru to people who bullied me, on their way to party. FML
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wowbuddy 19
Those are some shitty parents OP, FYL
Qandol 26
Parents like them don't deserve a child like you. Sorry to hear that OP.
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Ironman_I_Am 7
Next time they ask you to go with them somewhere and you don't want to go always bring this up. Sorry OP
kikimiko 7
Mine left me at graduation too. Sorry! I know it sucks
arauzfernando1 14
Hopefully those people taking pictures make a good meme out of you
kingdomgirl94 29
My dad left my grade 8 graduation early, and tried to make me, my boyfriend (who was in grade 11 at the time and is now my fiance) and my boyfriend's mom all leave my graduation before I even got my diploma. I was standing with my graduating class and he walks up to me and says that he wants to leave and tried to make me leave too. I stood my ground and stayed, and so did everyone else. I'm the first and only person in my family to graduate high school, so it's not even a matter of having gone to a lot of them. Some people only think about their own comfort and dont think about how other people are feeling. I'm sorry you had to go through this OP. Congrats on making it through school!
mancilla 4
Thanks! ?
mooman36 15
Why on earth is there a high school graduation? I went to one. My university one. The others one are too minor an event to graduate from, everyone does it and so isn't it a bit of waste of time/none special?
freddygasman 18
For some, they may be the first in a large family to graduate and that is a big deal for their family. For others, their parents never had the opportunity to graduate and it's a huge milestone for their parents to see that their kids are going to have a better future and more opportunities than they ever had.
seichan 7
You're very narrow-minded. Accomplishments, no matter how small they may seem to you, are still accomplishments. You don't know what some people had to go through to complete their schooling. Everyone who graduates, no matter what level, deserves to be acknowledged. With all the problems that students at ALL levels experience (bullying, school shootings, family problems, etc), we as a society need to celebrate successes like these. Don't ever think that everyone had an easy journey through school.
midnightm16 24
We suffered through 12 years of school to get to the point of graduation. Which is something that will help you in life. I think that merits a little celebration and congratulations.
kingdomgirl94 29
I don't know where you live, but a lot of people don't graduate. Lots drop out as soon as they can, or don't finish with enough credits or volunteer hours. Graduating is an accomplishment!
onemellowidiot 2
I'll be playing the parents' advocate here. We have no idea why the girl was asking her parents to show up. #28 has given quite a good explanation. I'm trying to add to that now. Without OP's explanation on why she wanted her parents to come so much (2 weeks of convincing), we can only hypothesize. If OP were a nagging daughter whom her parents thought not too highly of, it would be quite a normal thing for them not wanting to come. Another possibility is that she wants an expensive college? I don't really know, but again, this is FML, right? Everybody thinks he/she is the victim. If she were a beloved daughter, she wouldn't even have to convince them to come. This is also a possibility. I'm not saying the parents aren't shitty, they are. But why are they shitty? That's what I'm curious about now.
rgetting 24
Congratulations on graduating.
racejunkie 4
What kind of parents are they???
freddygasman 18
Congratulations on your graduation. The next time you have a major event like a university graduation or a wedding don't invite them. When they ask why they wasn't invited to the party just tell them that you didn't want to bore them with another major event from your life.
mancilla 4
I'm still going to invite them to huge milestones in my life because I refuse to be the asshole that they were to me. If they decide not to go by all means **** them.
Bertha7 8
Where are you from that EVERYONE graduates from high school? Everywhere I have lived high school graduation is a big deal and a reason to celebrate.
crazy_bananas 31
Pretty much anywhere in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, pretty much almost every first world country.
HeartYou101 31
I live in Ireland and we aren't given a graduation as such...In late May, on the evening of our last day in school (where we sat around and ate sweets, cake and sandwiches all day supplied by the school), we go to the church or the PE hall and have a 'Graduation Mass' attended by parents and teachers and is given by the parish priest to bless us, wish us well on our upcoming exams and future endeavours (I don't care for religion, but it is a nice sentiment). I don't know about other schools, but we didn't have a cap and gown thing or given certificates (Leaving Certificate results are given in July/August time, just). Then after the Mass or a few nights later we have "Grad Night", where someone organises a night out in a nightclub and we all get smashed...Then of course there's the Debs/Prom in August...
kingdomgirl94 29
Speak for yourself 54. I'm in Canada and grad was a big deal and not everyone graduates! My older brother and my step brother in law are never graduated, and one is my age and the other only a few years older. A lot of people don't graduate, you just don't notice them because they're not there.
flufee2 27
When you get a job and make money then theyll come running back to you... Thats when u say no