Today, I asked my grandmother to hem my prom dress for me. I'm her oldest granddaughter so I thought she'd be happy to do it. She said no. Her occupation is a seamstress. 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 grandmother tried to upstage me at my wedding by wearing an actual wedding dress because she "never had a real wedding". FML
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Today, I found out my grandmother doesn't wear underwear when she bent over in front of me in her inappropriately short nightgown. FML
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Today, I was trying on a dress at my grandmother's house. When I posed for her, she told me she would expand the waist, because I won't be sucking in the whole time I would be wearing it. The joke's on you Grandma, I've been sucking my stomach in since I was twelve years old. FML
Today, I tried on a dress for prom. It took a while to zip, but I insisted it'd fit. I asked for help. When the lady finally managed to zip all the way, the dress completely ripped at the seams. Not only did I have to pay $169 for it, but the lady told me, “We have more dresses in the plus-sized section!” FML
Today, my grandmother and I turned up to a family function wearing the same outfit. FML
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nattynatters 14
Some people feel used when family asks them for free labor. Maybe you should have offered to do something nice in return?
rahulcool7 14
I don't think it is that common to know how to hem a dress.
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Comments (77)
lazydavid 4
Scumbag grandma
paulbrec 11
I understand how you must feel, but I can understand your grandmother. Some people don't like to do their job when they are outside of work. I am the same way. If you want something from me, pay for it like everyone else.
katties 27
YDI! WHY do you assume she should want it?! That shit is really boring and takes quite a lot of time! People just assume that when you're "professional" that everything takes like 15 minutes! Prom dresses can be tricky to do because of many reasons, take time, and she already does that for a job + people that work with cloths often already have a lot to do and get little paid for it + get customers all day that expect them to do everything with the impression that it takes no time. She probably has her own stuff to do!
Hellbound_Alleee 14
She's under no obligation to do work for you--work that she does for a good price, I'm sure. Many people with skills like this constantly have family members assume that they will perform their professional service for free. So hire her. Pay her.
crazytwinsmom 25
She may have been offended by your assumption. Although she could have offered before being asked, if she knew you needed it.
jxcala 10
Ha. That's what you get for assuming.
Zerzzer 6
She isn't your servant b*tch
ShioriTsumi 13
Why are people selecting YDI so much? First of all, if she just wants the dress hemmed, it's not that big a deal. She doesn't want her grandmother to create an entirely new dress, she's just asking for it to be hemmed. Hemming a dress doesn't actually take a lot of time, especially if you know what you're doing, which the grandmother clearly does.
SMHsohard 22
The YDI comes from OP assuming that Grandma has nothing better to do than hem a dress-for free, no less. Like the pithy phrase on my favorite coffee cup says: "Let me just drop everything and work on YOUR problem!" Perhaps if she had actually asked, and offered to pay, Grandma might have come through with "That's ok honey, just bring me the dress."
botanistjessica 24
Hemming a dress like that actually does take quite a bit of time and effort.
MDNative 6
thats just like grandma
3rdbass 9
You went about it the wrong way. You could offer to play bingo with her. Problem Solved.