Today, I asked my daughter what time it was. She stared at the clock for several seconds before muttering, "I don't know". She's 14 years old and on the honour roll, and yet she can't tell the time on an analogue clock. FML
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Today, my daughter decided it'd be funny to change the time on my clock. My boss didn't think it was funny. FML
Today, my daughter was putting clothes in the drier when she yelled, "Mom!! The drier won't start!" I had to explain to her that the door needed to be shut. Her response, "Oh. I didn't know that mattered." She's 15. FML
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Today, my second-grade daughter asked her teacher how much money she makes. FML
Today, I told my daughter that she wasn't allowed to eat in her room, so she sat at the table and glared at me for 10 minutes while she ate. She's 15. FML
Today, my daughter, who was born in late 2000, mentioned how amazing it is that she'll be alive during the year 3000. I asked her exactly how old she thinks she'll be by then. She said, "Thirty, duh." I've screwed up as a parent, so very badly. FML
Today, my daughter asked me how long she had to put her 2-minute noodles in the microwave for. FML
Today, my grandma walked into my room and asked if the thing lying on my nightstand was a computer. I said ''Grandma, that's a clock.'' After staring at me, confused for a few seconds, she then farted, and left my room. FML
Today, I submitted my big assignment to my teacher at 1:55pm. The deadline was 2pm. She rejected it, because her watch read a few minutes after 2pm, and she maintains that the time on her watch is the "real" time. FML
Today, I took my 16 year-old daughter to get a bank account, taking her birth certificate with us as requested. When the teller wrote her name down on a piece of paper, my daughter said, "How do you know my name?" The teller just looked at her and held up her birth certificate. I raised a nitwit. FML
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chipnchips 0
time to switch to digital clocks
krysxkatastrophe 14
I know college kids who can't read a regular clock. It scares me that these people are the future of this world.
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NickiJane 0
It happens. Just teach her and this won't happen again! It's not the end of the world yet.
NickiJane 0
Roman numerals are wayyy different that
goshpeople 4
#30, I phrased it as a question, not saying you have to do it. What is wrong with helping someone acquire a useful skill set?
goshpeople 4
Hmm, I meant #31. When I clicked on "Show me the comment" while typing out my reply, it showed #31 -- but now my post shows up in a different thread entirely.. perhaps because I specified the wrong comment number by mistake? Weird.
Miss_Represented 0
F her life for having a parent that didn't teach her!
salvorican 24
Hey I didn't know my months in the 5th grade and I had As and Bs. Smart people don't know everything
supermankisses 1
no you're right, smart people know nothing.
salvorican 24
Not what I meant. Smart people are only good at what they know. They can know alot of things but not everything
Zebidee 9
I'd hardly put knowing the months in the category of things smart people may or may not choose to specialise in.
salvorican 24
Nope but I'd hope they know them lol
nhcutie96 0
FHL for not knowing how to tell time.
angeluscado 15
Except for the age, I'm tempted to think this is my mom posting about my kid sister. Province is even the same.
LizzJizz 16
Maybe she just wasnt even really paying attention, or didnt want to bother XD i often zoneout when my dad asks me sumthing & just say "i dunno" lol then he goes off "How The *$6% do u not know?"
Buzz3070 3
With everything digital its no surprise.
QWERTYCommander 5
Seriously? I'm the same age as her and I have an analog watch. There are no second hands or 1-minute increments on it and I can still tell the time right down to the minute. But maybe your daughter is in the honor roll because she excels at something else and is just terrible at that? I mean, I'm really good at literary analysis but absolutely terrible at geography.
MurphyS94 4
She's on the honor roll because telling time isn't a subject in school.
mofoben 0
public education