Today, I asked a woman where her beautiful accent was from. The woman stared at me for a while. Then her daughter told me that the reason her mother talked like that was because she had a stroke a few months ago. 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, at work, I was reprimanded for not engaging with customers enough. In an effort to be more friendly, I complimented the next customer on her interesting accent. Turns out it was from a stroke she had last year. FML
Today, at work, I was helping someone who really sounded like she had a Boston accent. So, I asked her where she was from. She has never been out of state. Turns out she has a speech impediment. FML
Today, my teenage daughter asked me if accents are hereditary. FML
Today, while at my friend's house, I noticed her brother had a bit of an accent. I laughingly said "Is it me or does your little brother have an accent?" She stared and replied with "No, he has autism." FML
Today, I met a guy while out with some friends. He kept blowing up his cheeks, so I did it back to him and asked him why he did it. He pulled out a card from his wallet and pointed at it. It was a card saying he may have speech or facial difficulties because he had a stroke when he was 12. FML
Today, two drop dead gorgeous Australians asked me for directions. Being so shocked by their beauty and accents, I couldn't get words out of my mouth. Then one said to the other, "Nope, she doesn't speak English", then walked away. FML
Today, I received a text from my dad, which was borderline-incomprehensible due to an insane amount of text language. I replied, jokingly asked if he had a stroke while writing it. A few seconds after hitting send, I remembered the stroke he suffered last month. FML
Today, one of my closest friends and I got into a fight. She ended the conversation with, "My grandma just had a stroke. Bye." I didn't believe her so I replied "That's great. Bye." Turns out her Grandma is in the hospital in critical condition. FML
Today, I was speaking to an old friend and I asked her how her mother was. She replied, "She passed away, you came to her funeral last month." FML
Today, a woman asked why my daughter doesn't look remotely like me. I just smiled and shrugged it off, but the truth is that she looks exactly like I did before I got my botched plastic surgery. FML
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Top comments
curryndricegirll 0
at least you didn't make fun of it. if anything, i hope she would feel better since you called her speech beautiful. i mean i know it's still awful, but it's a little better
AndelleRae 9
That does suck, but the way this is worded implies that the woman is a stranger. How were you to know she had a stroke? I don't think it's an FML or a YDI. Just kind of embarrassing.
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Comments (95)
xHaniffax 0
she probably thought you were taking the piss
tpag3r 0
wow i feel stupid, all this time i was pretty sure if someone had a stroke and they came out of it with a cool sounding voice and not disabled or anything, that that was a good thing. how wrong have i been
blakehilli8 0
haha sucks
annamg 0
Hey, it's not like you knew any better.
geeztommy 0
lmaoooooo FYI fersureeeee
opschief 0
that stupid ****!! you called it beautiful! **** THAT BITCH! Now she's cursed to be a stroke victim AND alone the rest of her pitiful life!!
artcgirl 0
wow. over-reaction much?
leeny_fml 2
You probably just made her day. I can see how it would be embarrassing, but it's not a true FYL.
monkey314159 0
wait... you were hitting on her in front of her daughter?
Quiet_one 22
Most likely, she's happy that you complimented her. She was probably just too surprised to respond at the time, especially since it happened so recently so she's likely to feel self conscious about it and might not be used to people commenting on it yet. What was awkward for you might just have made her feel a little better.
falling_over 0
You think its an FML, but I bet she will feel a lot less self conscious about it from now on, knowing that you simply thought it was a nice accent and not a physical problem.
dang_fml 0
Thats true