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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Comments (225)
spamzilla 4
Maybe she was just being a smartass. I'm 14 and I'd do the same thing if my dad was sitting next to a clock and could look himself.
lisha88 1
sometimes people forget since they have cell phones and iPods to tell time now so maybe that's why she still doesn't know
SydneyG 0
took my 15 yrs to read a face clock.. n im 16 n on the honor roll -_- dnt hate on a 14 yr old n call her a dumbass you dick heads!!!
crissit98 0
well im 12 and i could read an analog clock since i was 5 so maybe parents should step it up and take the responsibility to teach kids things on their own! schools not gonna teach us everything you know?!?!?!
Basket_Case_ 0
my spanish teacher had to teach us how to read them because a student in our class didn't know how to read it. she taught us so she could do a worksheet correctly. I'm in highschool.
FMLaddict20 5
you kinda deserved it for not teaching her yourself before she was 14..
taybay996 0
For everyone's information, I'm the daughter here and I'm sorry that, even though I've made nothing but straight-A's so far in school while being in honors and STILL excelling, helping others, and being way more mature in every way than most people my age, that I had a "blonde moment". Yeah, I'm not perfect, but who cares?! I have the intelligence to be an astrophysicist and the looks to model for Victoria's Secret. So what if I can't quickly read an analog clock? It's just not a habit in my household... Sorry I'm apparently a failure dad.
angela3222 0
Every person is different, some people are so smart there stupid and then you have the common sense people. Everyone was taught differently now stop being so iggnorent about this... my god people on this site... -__-
freeagent678 0
I'm thinking she cheated her way onto the honor roll
bkouch 1
'honour roll' it obviously shows where she got it from
paulsgirl2008 3
And you're obviously an idiot ... I love when people correct the British spelling of things just because they're a young arrogant American who has never read much outside of our own country's literature.
clarkie007 0
And I love how you assume that a young American is stupid because they aren't familiar with a British spelling, because they use the spelling that is used in that area does not make anyone less intelligent, not to mention that it Is used in a completely different way...... twat
xXLove_MurdersXx 4
So..? I didn't learn until I was 13 years old. I don't see what's the problem.