Today, I told my parents that all I wanted for my 18th birthday was to go to a restaurant in NYC for a nice dinner. My parents said no, because it would cost too much money. I came home to see my parents had bought a huge TV for $800. We already have 3 televisions. 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 went to dinner with friends for my birthday. During the whole thing they insisted that we get whatever we wanted and celebrate, but when the check came, they all looked at me expectantly. I just bought my friends $150 of food for my birthday present. FML
Today, I bought my mother an expensive TV she had been looking at. After I bought it, she continued browsing for more stuff. I told her I couldn't afford the extra items. She got mad and called me "selfish". FML
Today, I told my parents that what I'd really like for my 21st birthday is the 1865 edition of the Memoirs of Saint-Simon in 22 volumes that I found online for $200, and have been wanting for months. They laughed and said, "Yeah, right. We'll get you an iPhone and perhaps you'll become normal." FML
Today, my mother flipped out that I spent $20 on a gift for myself for my birthday. Instead of getting a gift for me, she spent $300 on a new vacuum cleaner, and claims that we didn't have enough left in our budget to spend on me. FML
Today, I spent over $2,000 on a big flatscreen TV. My dad insisted I let him mount it on the wall instead of paying someone to do it. All seemed fine, until the TV came loose and smashed onto the floor. My dad refuses to accept responsibility, and says I should've had a professional install it instead. FML
Today, it's my birthday. My parents, with whom I live, told me that they didn't get me anything, but instead they said they would knock off a bit of the housekeeping I owe them. FML
Today, I bought my son a nice car for his 18th birthday. When I gave it to him, he just got mad and told me that if I really wanted to spend that much money on him, I should've used it to help him pay for college. FML
Today, I found out my mom is getting rid of cable TV. My dad and I bought her a 700 dollar plasma screen TV for Christmas. FML
Today, after months of living on five dollars a day for food in college, I found out my parents bought me an expensive meal plan and forgot to mention it. FML
Today, I begged my parents not to take me to a restaurant for my birthday, but sure enough, they took me to one, along with my siblings, aunts, uncles, you name it. Ordering with them is a nightmare, so after a whole half-hour the waiter still hadn’t gotten everyone’s complicated orders written down. FML
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YDIxLol 0
That's bull shit. Throw lasagna at them.
Shlizabeth 0
I'm gonna say FYL because I live in NJ and while it's hard to get to NY just for dinner, for a birthday that's a reasonable gift, so to say that's too expensive and then buy a brand new tv, that's just rude.
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Expertfail 0
If they're the type to do that then you would hardly enjoy dinner with them anyway. Okay, that's not quite true; they're your family afterall.. But hell, it's an attempt at consolation. Who is in the wrong here depends on quite a few bits and bobs, there's not really enough info here to decide.
drybamboo 0
By huge, you must mean less than 32" and even then it's a good deal... Also, a nice dinner in NYC for 3 people would be at least $300 if no one's getting wine. I'm with the parents.
roza043 14
She turned ******* 18, she deserves at least a decent dinner. Money is something you always can have again; but you only get to be 18 once.
PublicEnemy961 0
$800 for a plasma?
allmidnighteyes 11
Labor Day Weekend = everything's on sale
SomeRandomGuy18 0
Not even close. Plasmas don't need motion plus because they don't have motion problems like LCDs. http://www.hometheatermag.com/flat-panels/pioneer_elite_kuro_pro-141fd_plasma_hd_monitor/
Ritika 0
that is just sad they will get a tv instead for ur b-day party
scaj 0
thats just mean, personally i would prefer a nice dinner over a 4th tv any day. the big but short pleasures are more important than watching commercials and reality tv in a higher definition.
DomK 0
They brought you to this world and brought you up to be 18. Is that not enough that you have to be angry with them for not taking you to a dinner? There must have been countless dinners they missed trying to put you to sleep, and you miss one dinner today and you think your life is ****** because of them? Good things happen, bad things happen. When you whine about the bad, dont forget all the good that happened before that. My suggestion: Go, buy them a nice gift and than them for wonderful 18 years of your life with them and see how emotional they get. If you feel that they are not unnderstanding you and there has been some distance between them and you, take the first step and see if they are taking the next step or not. If one must be angry with the parents so much so that he thinks his life is ****** because of them, one must make sure that the reason is a damn good one.
syed121417 22
This FML was another a birthday dinner. And you take it to a ******* philosophical standpoint. So just because OP wanted a nice dinner, makes them spoiled and ungrateful and not knowing what their parents had done for them? Sounds like you have a bit of a hero complex.
Alex_Almiighty 0
to everyone on here saying "omg im getting nothing for my birthday" or "spoiled?!?!?!", i'm sorry people want something for their birthday. not the OP's fault that all of your parents are poor and didn't get an education to be able to give you something for your birthday/christmas. to OP: i can't see how your parents wouldn't want to do this as well, everyone gets a good meal :D
Lisasimpsonfan 0
YDI Get a job and buy your own dinner. Mom and Dad can spend their own money however they wish.
Alex_Almiighty 0
fail troll is fail.
SMBroskie 0
Maybe you should be more entertaining.
CalicoJack_fml 9
I'm guessing maybe they'd already bought the TV before you told them what you wanted. Parents try hard, and it's not your place to complain.