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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
Today, my daughter admitted that she sometimes forgets her own name upon waking. She’s 15. FML
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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starwind3438 9
Hell, I still use a sun dial but it messes up at night when I look at it with a flashlight.
IndigoFuckYou 9
I'm fourteen and on the honor roll, straight A student. I can't tell the time on an analog clock, either. :3 and I still don't know the months in order...I'm wondering if I somehow managed to skip my kindergarten years.
HeaRTs_Girl 0
#54: You don't know the months in order? Honey, I think you not only skipped kindergarten, but every grade between then and now. Jesus...
itsgen 16
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec dumbass. its not hard
prelim_champ 10
And this is why I worry about the people who will run our future...
mikaykaykayla 0
So many people don't know how to read analog clocks! They don't even teach it in school anymore! When I was little the first type of clock I could read was a roman numeral wall clock; the only one in most of the house! You should take it upon yourself to teach her.
rattusrattus 19
I was taught myself (I'm English, for reference), and Mum bought me a model of an analogue clock to help. I was good at it until I went over to more digital clocks (i.e. when my wall clock ran out of juice and I never bothered to replace the batteries about three years ago) and fell out of practice. I still can, it just takes me a while. And analogue clocks without a second hand creep me out for some reason.
monnanon 14
How can you fall out of practise reading a clock, its very easy. Its not like some kind of wierd equation you need to practise is it? You see the numbers, the hands point to them, long one is minutes and the short is hours. It is very easy. For gods sake I can read a backwards analogue clock how can people think this is hard.
geeksaresexy 18
Did either of you have a Flik Flak watch where the hands were blue and red people? They were awesome..
knocking 0
It takes me awhile to tell time on a non digital clock too. I learned how when I was a child, but I rarely use what I learned since most clocks are digital. I'd rather whip out my cell and check than try to tell time with a "normal" clock. I had a 4.0 all through out high school and I currently have a 3.9 in college. I think I turned out okay. I'm sure your daughter will too. It's just not a skill that is used that often anymore...
happyface1 0
geez, i'm the same age. i've been asked to skip grade 2 , and i have always been above average in my classes, but i'm so used to digital, so that on analog clocks it takes me very long !
Alysin 14
you'd be surprised by how many people can't tell time on a non-digital clock lol
HaloR 0
Schools stopped working because she got lazy
cn12socr 1
I'm 16 I'm the same way could never comprehend it cause of my ADHD
notsofriendly 17
i knew analog when i was little and forgot later... then i had to re-learn it again when i was taking foreign language in high school... we learned to say the time on little paper analog clocks...
maddy23a 5
I've noticed a lot of people who can't read analog clocks now a days :/