Today, I overheard my mother Skyping with her new "boyfriend" about the $1,000 she just sent him. She barely knew what internet dating was three weeks ago. 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 called my mom to see how she was doing. She quickly hijacked the conversation and said that she's signed me up for a dating site, because she feels bad that I can't find a decent man. I've been dating my boyfriend for seven months, and she's seen me with him multiple times. FML
Today, my mom decided to tell me about her new boyfriend. I know him. I've slept with him. FML
Today, my boyfriend told me that my mom paid him to date me. FML
Today, I was at dinner with my boyfriend and his family. We were talking about relationships, and I commented on how online dating was the dumbest thing ever. His mom and step-dad went on to tell me how they had met through an online dating service. FML
Today, I had a first date with a guy I met online. And his mom. FML
Today, my widowed mother told me she's been seeing a guy for the last 5 months. No problem. But now she insists on calling him, "New Daddy." I'm 37 and she lives across the street. FML
Today, I had to listen to my mother flirting on the phone with my dad's new girlfriend's ex-husband. FML
Today, I found out my mom pretended to be me and had AIM conversations with my boyfriend. FML
Today, I woke up to an email confirming my membership to a dating site. Turns out my mother is as annoyed by my loveless life as I am. FML
Today, I found out my stalker is my mom's new boyfriend. FML
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Top comments
Nolimit2217 32
Uh oh.. Sounds like trouble.
vehementbitch 4
Your mom sounds like an idiot.
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Comments (126)
Nolimit2217 32
Uh oh.. Sounds like trouble.
CheeseTron 15
Make it double!
CheeseTron 15
To protect our world from devastation!
CheeseTron 15
To unite all peoples within our nation!
CheeseTron 15
To denounce the evils of truth and love!
CheeseTron 15
To extend our reach to the stars above!
warturtle 14
To extend our reach to the stars above.
boofgall 16
Jesse!
warturtle 14
James!
SxeDaze 13
Team rocket goes blasting off at the speed of light!
Mossears133 15
Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
Psychicgirl17 18
Meowth, that's right!
fboy1588 14
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Digimon! **** yeah
shelbzlynn 14
Pokémon...
CheeseTron 15
Good job guys. Poke-crew out. Except for you digi-boy
Nolimit2217 32
I was wondering what song everyone was singing!
FireBitten 14
This whole thread just made my day.
Zomg_Okay 27
51 - Fairly sure that was the joke, yeah.
shelbzlynn 14
66- I was replying to 47
Zomg_Okay 27
77 - I'm well aware of that. The joke you and everyone else apparently missed was that "Digimon" is so obviously wrong, he couldn't be seriously suggesting the Team Rocket theme song came from Digimon.
ZeroPath5 16
Even the people who said "Jesse" and "James" got the gender correct. Now that's detail! Best comments I've ever seen here, lmao
RainbowInput 8
The whole conversation made my day. But them there's digimon-boy over here who had to go and ruin it before you got to finish. It's like I died a little inside when I read his comment.
envyelric 6
You're all morons downvoting the digimon comment. It's obviously a joke
byron17 26
ughhh..i hope you're joking...otherwise you had a very shit childhood with no Pokémon!
TheMasterSSA 8
Yes.
brittyed 11
what a mooch.
golden_warrior 23
Not really, OP's mother is a gullible fool
SuperSofie 23
Whatever do you mean #18? Are you saying there is no Nigerian prince waiting for her?
Sinistra_Blue 12
No Nigerian prince, #31, but I'll send you a check for $1000, as long as you send me $500 back.
DorkAlert 10
WOW she ment the boyfriend is a mooch
vehementbitch 4
Your mom sounds like an idiot.
PulseShock 9
Sounds like she got... Catfished! No one..? Oh okay..
tanekdrachonae 19
Sorry your mom isn't that smart when it comes to people...and the internet.
Pesticides 19
look at op's name XD
Chris425 12
Make it double!
kxxjoejoexxk 8
And team rocket should blast off again now
random_jay 6
Were you the one who introduced her to Internet dating?
BadApple88 29
Explain to your mom what a "scam" is
greenfishbait 19
And fast! I remember seeing a documentary about people who were scammed like this. A woman was "dating" a guy for almost a year, and by the end of it, had sent him well over $100,000. I'm hoping for your sake that your mom wises up before it gets that far.
MrConcise 35
What about "sextortion"?
MrConcise 35
Do people really not understand how sextortion relates?
chatokun 10
The X makes it sound cool?
Abenti 8
"You mean...some people go on the Internet just to lie?!"
feelingold 18
We young fine-looking men have to make a living somehow.
olpally 33
$20 says its going to the Cayman Islands or some place in Africa.
MEM0817 18
The FML didn't indicate that she got some email about a "poor child" who is in need of clothing and food etc... This is just a dude who knows how to manipulate women on the internet.
olpally 33
That's what scam artists do also(scam artists are usually from foreign countries most commonly Africa) Her mom is a moron, I never said anything about a kid in Africa either.
Zen_Mei 17
#43 what have you been smoking? Most scam artists are from Africa? Retarded much?
SmilieAKD 20
Actually most of the time they do try to get you to send money to Africa. It's the most common country right now through the Internet dating sites. This happened to my aunt. She talked to this guy she met through Christianmingle.com every day for months: online, through emails, and on her cellphone. Then one day he started asking her to make large purchases and send the items to him saying he would pay her back. Luckily she was smart enough to end it when that happened and didn't send him anything.
showen_fml 4
Thanks dude. I'm from Africa. We ain't that bad you know!
Enslaved 38
#10 was obviously joking but correct. That's what some scammer do. They'll ask you to send over monies to an uncommon place/country and for your troubles-- they promise to repay double, triple etc. . . sometime in the near future only to be M.I.A. later. Some never report it because they feel foolish for falling for the trap. Dateline NBC much? Many target lonely overly-trusting women.
olpally 33
Wow, people need to watch dateline NBC more.. Thanks for calling me retarded, bitch.
Enslaved 38
Also no one is insulting ex:Africa (any country). The money gets laundered and more difficult to trace. The scammers don't necessary live/are from there. Hasn't anyone heard that joke that-- you're going to hide your money in a Swiss bank account to avoid taxes?
ShyAnn29 15
Internet dating isn't the problem, it's the scammers who manipulate women and men into sending them money, I would NEVER send money to someone online!
Nysha 17
I would have upvoted #73 as a good example of this kind of scam, if they hadn't referred to Africa as a country.
VeganVampyre 27
91- it's scary how many people think that it is. Clearly they didn't pay attention in geography class.
SmilieAKD 20
True. My mistake, Africa is a continent not a country. Still the point I was trying to make is, if someone is trying to get you to send money to an African country and its someone you met online that you don't know well, it's probably a scam.
FrankHotpants 31
The Internet can be a dangerous place to the untrained surfer.