Today, I attended my son's Christmas concert. When I went to sit down in the last available seat, a woman said she was saving it for her husband. Having nowhere else to sit, I stood in the back, for an hour. The seat remained empty for the entire concert. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I went to a movie with this guy. He was late so the only seats available were the ones in the very front which he refused to sit in. As we were looking for two seats, he spotted one near the back and sat down, leaving me to sit by myself in the front. FML
Today, I was late to a sold out movie in the theater, so I had to shuffle in during the previews in the dark. I sat down in what I thought was the last vacant seat, but I'd really just sat in a small woman's lap. She was not happy. FML
Today, I went to a concert. One of my favorite bands was performing, and I'd had the ticket for seven months, with a great seat for the show. It was all going perfectly, that is until a guy twice my height sat in front of me. FML
Today, I ate lunch alone. None of my colleagues saved me a seat. One of those colleagues was my husband. He didn't even have the decency to move so that I wouldn't have to eat alone. FML
Today, it was the concert of my life. I had bought tickets the minute they went on sale, and I'd anxiously waited until the concert date. Thirty minutes before the show, my friend got so drunk that we weren't allowed in, and I was stuck babysitting her all night in the hotel, completely missing the show. FML
Today, I was at my class's band concert. Before the curtain was raised, I helped haul the piano to a different spot so a girl who would've had to stand behind it could be seen. I said, "There, now your mom can see you play!" She responded with, "My mom's blind." FML
Today, I went to my kid's band concert. She's 12 and in the advanced team. They were the first ones to play and they were so incredibly bad that I laughed. Really, really loud. I was escorted out of the recital. FML
Today, I treated my out of town family to a surprise opera experience as a belated Christmas present. When we arrived, there were people already in our seats. Upon checking the tickets, I realized that I had purchased them for the following Friday instead of today. FML
Today, I was going to meet my friend at a concert. I got there before her, so I went in to check out the local bands that were playing before the headliner. When she got there, I went just outside the building to give her a ticket. The security guards wouldn't let me back in. She went in anyway. FML
Today, I went to a conference for work. When I got there I sat beside a woman about my age. She immediately got up and moved to the opposite side of the room. We were the only two there. FML
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Freeze_fml 17
You could have returned to the seat halfway through the concert.
unidentified_sta 5
"Today me and my husband were supposed to see our challenged son finally get the role he dreamed of in his school's Christmas Concert. I got there I was supposed to save a seat for my husband. A lady asked to sit near me and I told her it was taken. She went and lingered at the back watching me. My husband never showed up because he got in an accident and now the lady is scowling at me. Fml"
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Comments (167)
mschrisaya 4
This is sad:( Im glad u stayed my parents never went to anything of mine maybe her husband was a dead beat like my dad and she really hoped he would show up
looloothing 9
maybe it's an FML for her too. maybe it really was for her husband and he never showed.
LilaBear 2
while it sucks for you, maybe it sucks for her too. Maybe her husband was supposed to turn up but didn't. Her FML might be like "tonight at my daughter's concert, a nice gentleman asked if he could have the seat beside me. I had to say no because I was saving it for my husband. He never turned up. The gentleman who had to stand glared at me on the way out. FML."
Alaalala 0
Props to the mum, though.
lalalovebiancaa 0
your stupid for not going over there after like 20 minutes she can't reserve seats Dx
mintcar 10
It's not that bad? It raises a slight annoyance when I see people type out " should of. " There is no such thing. I'd rather correct them than not Maybe if they read the correction, next time they wont make the same mistake. Also, I'm no " grammar nazi." A Grammar Nazi would've fixed his whole sentence. Online short hand grammar doesn't bother me much.
shortystar_fml 0
tell her u will move when her husband gets there . in the mean time ur gonna watch the concert from her husbands chair
Daddymo 14
Being there for your son is much more important than sitting. Think of all the people in wheelchairs that don't get to stand.
Sparx1_1 16
WOW sucks to be your kid. You had to stand up for a whole ******* hour and then come here to whine about it when you could have just gone and sat your lazy ass down once it was clear that the woman's husband wasn't going to show. I've been to these things - there's always a row of parents lining the back wall once the seats run out. I bet none of them complained because they were too busy appreciating the work their kids did to put on a show for them.
TheCrazyCoach 0
maybe her husband was a solider and he was late or he got in an accident