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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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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egads 0
How on earth is this and FML?!?!?!!! F your parents' lives for having such a spoiled brat for a kid.
syed121417 22
Yes, all she wanted was a dinner with her parents and instead of even trying to compromise, they refused. Yes OP must be so spoiled
LAgirl_fml 1
FYL, Happy Birthday and welcome into the selfish world of adults!! I'm wondering if the OP tell her parents 'cause she usually do so every year or if they asked her for what she wanted and then denied it to her
Shanaynayx3 0
Hehe I hav 6 TVs
z3r0ram 0
she's being selfish because it's in new york a nice restaurant can easily hit 200 bucks for 3 people
i_is_a_tr00l 0
My FML was way better than this. WTF. How did this get moderated! My lyfe is way more ****** man. "Today, I found out my milkshake DIDNT bring all the boys to the yard. FML." DAMN YOU ALL! >:O
triplethreat13 0
i have 8 TVs. just saying. but 16 and 18 and 21 are the biggest birthdays, you should get more than that. but my parents wouldn't take me to a nice restaurant in NYC no matter what day it is.
plexico 4
The plasma TV will last a couple of years -- the fancy meal will be the shit you are flushing in 24 hours. Sounds like your parents are showing you how to spend money wisely. YDI for living in Jersey AND wanting to take your entertainment dollar out of state. Find a hoagie place and fuggedaboutit!
ohwoahemilyy 0
It's called that her parents are selfish. She wanted to be taken somewhere for a very important birthday, and dinner would probably cost a few hundred. That's incredibly selfish for them to buy themselves something even more expensive after telling their child that "it's too expensive" to go somewhere she wanted to. And what's so bad about living in Jersey? I live in Jersey. Well, not North Jersey but still.
plexico 4
No self-serve gas. Newark.
lilsongbird 0
I think the gas thing is a plus. It's cheaper, AND we don't have to even get out of our cars in bad weather just to pump gas! ....Though I agree with the Newark thing.
alicks_fml 0
You deserved it because you used an apostrophe to pluralize.
aero_fml 0
Win.
FrostEternal 0
If you're seriously complaining that you got a plasma TV for your birthday, you're a greedy *****.
CheshireHalli 19
She didn't get the TV, her parents bought it for themselves.
muffinsareyummy 1
dude. come the **** on. plasma > dinner.
allmidnighteyes 11
Nah, nice dinner > plasma TV Now if it were a nice LED or nice LCD TV, then it would be TV > dinner
SomeRandomGuy18 0
You are stupid. You know nothing about TVs. Also LED TVs are the same as LCD TVs. Quote: "They are different things completely. They are different technologies. The 600Hz on Plasma is really more marketing to make it seem vastly better than LCD. But really the technology just works entirely differently. Plasma has a near instantaneous response time, like 0.001ms. LCD's are at best like 2.4ms (but most are like 5ms or 8ms). They use the refresh rate to try and mask the motion blur that comes because of the slow response time. It helps "draw" the image more often by interpolating frames and reducing blur. Plasma is flawless in motion playback. Its inherent to the technology. No extra features needed. Its better than LCD, even LED LCD (which from a motion standpoint is the same as CCFL LCD). The Plasma 480Hz or 600Hz sub-field motion drive claims to give Plasma this better image for moving images. But again, inherent to the technology its near instantaneous already. Its like saying a CRT/tube set is 600Hz. Its an attempt to help win over confused consumers. It does take them down the right path, as Plasma is better, but it doesn't 'draw' or interpolate images like an LCD does."
KoreanGuy 0
only a nerd with no life would actually make a long-ass comment like that.