Today, I had to dig up my twin boys birth certificates for baseball registration. Turns out I had been calling both of them by the other twin's name for eight and a half years. 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, I found out that I've been calling my boyfriend's dad by the wrong name for the past two years. No one had told me sooner because they liked laughing at me for it when I wasn't around. FML
Today, I realized that since I was in elementary school, my friends, my workmates, and even my family, all call me accidentally by someone else's name instead of my actual name. I'm 30 years-old. FML
Today, I was mistaken for my twin brother twice. This probably wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't a girl. FML
Today, I realized that I've been using the wrong name for a coworker for the past 6 months. I just found out their real name when I saw their name tag. FML
Today, I found out I've been misspelling my middle name for 25 years. FML
Today, I came home to my wife crying. She had mixed up our newborn twin girls and couldn't tell which was which. I looked at the girls. Neither could I. FML
Today, I found out that my eight year old son is actually my nephew. FML
Today, I got an X-ray and the nurse happened to mention the old break in my leg. Mom always said it was my twin brother who'd broken his leg. Can you see where this is going? I have now confirmed that at some point mom mixed me and my brother up, so we’ve being using each other’s names for 35 years FML
Today, I learned that being a twin really isn't that cool. After laughing at my twin brother for getting a speeding ticket he turns to me and says "It's not mine." Confused, I look at the ticket and see my name. He used my license. FML
Today, I found out that my parents have been lying about my birthday. Now it makes sense how they "lost the birth certificate" or how many photos of me as a baby are dated before I was actually supposed to be born, because "the camera must've glitched, we must've confused the date we wrote in the back of that card." FML
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jshsmith1995 0
how would finding their birth certificates help distinguish their names?
sourkrout94 0
hahah way to go..
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jasminea 0
well don't tell them! leave it for their 18th birthday. great present!(:
gaganinia 14
:o what if one goes to jail and blames it on his brother
jasminea 0
well then ... uh ... hadn't thought of that part yet.
HazingNight 4
how are you going to explain that to their teachers? many grade changes and class changes
Kill_Kayt 5
At 8 they probably have all the same classes and grades.
HazingNight 4
unless one is in more advanced classes than the other. at my elementary school we had that even at a young age
Kill_Kayt 5
I suppose that this is possible now a days. wasn't when I was a kid or at least not at schools I was in.
stolencrackers 1
It wouldn't matter. The kids weren't doing each other's school work. Twin A was doing his own work, as well as twin B. Regardless of their names. If a teacher was calling just students the wrong name (not related) it doesn't make that student magically more or less intelligent.
User1518 6
Well I'm a twin and after preschool my sister and I had no classes together until the 7th grade. :) So I'm sure the grades will have to be changed, plus schools have a record for every kid, so even in the same class, that'd have to be dealt with.
stolencrackers 1
So, if your sister got all F's and you got all A's you would have to swap grades because you unknowingly were called by the wrong name? No. If you were smarter than your sister even with a grade change you STILL would be smarter than your sister.
User1518 6
no no no! I mean that if I was mistakes for her then I'd have to get my grades on my record. I'm sooo sorry, I didn't mean it like that!
stolencrackers 1
Ooooh. My mistake/apologizes.
User1518 6
:) All is good
reagle13 0
when a baby is born they put ink on their foot and mark the page. they could have found out this way or my features listed on the certificate.
Kill_Kayt 5
are you suggesting that she can tell them apart at years old by just looking at a foot print from when they were a day old? this woman needs to work for the CSI the. cause they need machines to do that.
BrooklynnStroker 0
there's no features listed on a birth certificate! and yes how would she know by looking at their foot print? my kids foot prints aren't on their birth certificate anyway.
reagle13 0
look on the comments on jshsmith's comment up above. sorry about any confusion about the word features. I meant eye color or hair color or something simply like that. and a foot print or a finger print could be used but not exactly immediately just by glancing at it once.
traze 7
You deserve the mother of the year award....
synonymous 1
I stopped reading at 'dig up my twin boys'.
XxEmoSnowboarder 8
hahaha win
IndiRae 9
I got ******* terrified when I read that too xD
seeunexttuesdays 6
I almost peed myself reading this haha
timon6442 6
if you quit reading why the **** did you comment then?
User1518 6
I have an identical twin sister... Good luck telling them that OP! It'll be pretty confusing, maybe some conflict, then some legal work... but then afterwards, all is good! :)
Keyman1212 14
I don't really see what's wrong here... if they're twins, the birth certificates are almost interchangeable... Kinda. It's little league baseball. Who gives a ****?
allforus 5
Who needs a birth certificate for little league baseball anyway?
militarybrat 21
Its so u dont put an age 10 kid in with the 5-8 group. It is a big deal actually.
DKParth13 5
you are really dumb fo real!!!!
MasterShake1100 0
lol are you making a reference to something that I think you are making a reference too?
th4m4ster 6
no one will notice ..
J1hill33 12
so are you gonna tell them or keep it the way it is