Today, I made chicken noodle soup for the girl I've been seeing to help her get over her cold. From scratch. Everything fresh save for the canned chicken stock. It took an hour in preparation and half an hour to take the bus to her place. Her first words? The celery's not cooked enough. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was sick with the flu so my boyfriend announced that he would make me some chicken soup. It was touching until I stumbled to the kitchen and found out that his "chicken soup" was actually leftover KFC bones boiled in water. FML
Today, I lovingly simmered a chicken carcass, vegetables and spices to make soup. Two hours it took. After all that, I mindlessly strained out the chicken bones and let the soup pour straight down the sink. FML
Today, I asked the girl I’m seeing to make me some chicken soup because I was sick. She replied, “If you’re sick, go to the doctor. I’m not doing wifey shit if you’re not gonna make me a wife, let alone a girlfriend.” FML
Today, I was miserable with a cold. So I ordered soup and noodles from a new Chinese restaurant. Now I am miserable with a cold and food poisoning. FML
Today, getting tired of my usual turkey/tuna salad/chicken sandwiches, I made a pot of soup to take to work for lunch. My girlfriend woke up in the middle of the night to forage for snacks, spilled it all over the floor, and woke me up to clean it. FML
Today, I made a healthy, delicious dinner. My girlfriend picked at it until it went cold, then stuck it in the fridge. Later, she devoured a giant bowl of sugary cereal, then complained all night that her stomach hurt. This happens a lot. FML
Today, I was "that idiot" who spent ages making a soup stock from meat and vegetables, but then while separating it forgot to put a pan under the strainer, so I poured the finished stock down the sink, leaving me with only the boiled meat and veg sat sadly in the strainer. Takeaway chinese for tea, then. FML
Today, I was in bed sick from pneumonia. I asked my boyfriend to nuke a can of soup for me. He said "in a sec, let me finish this game" and continued to play on his Xbox for an hour. Starving, I crawled out to make soup. When I sat down to eat, he paused the game and asked "you didn't make me any?" FML
Today, I spent all day carefully preparing a wonderful homemade beef and vegetable stew from scratch. Close to dinner time, I tasted it and it was inedibly salty. Confused, my horrifically bratty stepdaughter then laughed and admitted she poured salt in it because it wasn’t what she wanted for dinner. FML
Today, I spent a good deal of my afternoon preparing a nice dinner for my girlfriend. When I finally served the meal, I proudly presented her with a beautifully arranged plate of salmon. She looked at it and said, “You know I’m allergic to fish, right?” We had cereal for dinner instead. FML
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uneekfreak16 0
Awww.. you're so sweet :). That girl doesn't deserve you...you sound like you have awesome boyfriend potential and I hope you find someone who really appreciates what you do for them.
christoper 0
Oh, she's probably just sick and cranky.
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Comments (172)
catatonicsleep 17
Having a cold is no excuse for being bitchy, no matter how bad your headache is. If someone tries to do something nice for you you should be appreciative, even if they get it wrong. Be thankful he didn't under cook the chicken, can't get salmonella from under cooked celery...
poison29 0
I like crunchy celery in my soup : )
stiles_fml 0
YAWN
MrZach 0
Lol. That's when you tell her to cry about it.
punkbitchhh 0
bahahahahaha. thats what she said!!!!!!
sarumanthewhite 0
constructive criticism to be fair YDI
catatonicsleep 17
usually with constructive criticism you would start with, 'this part is good but....'
poetictragedy72 0
Even if the soup tasted terrible, it's still an incredibly nice thing to do. Still I feel like he's exaggerating, whose first words would really be something other than "thank you"? If she said it as an afterthought, at least she was honest. I don't think she was trying to be mean. If those were her first words though, that sucks, even if she was sick. But I can understand why she'd be upset that you wrote this on FML and didn't mention it to her! Oh and I also totally expected her to be vegetarian.
Tehalon 0
A good cook tries the food before serving it! YDI.
audax 0
Wow. . . nice of you to go to all the trouble, but it just goes to show why Chef Ramsay always says to taste what you're preparing before serving it. It keeps things like this from happening. Next time just get progressive or something. . . hopefully you can handle that. YDI