Today, I took my friends out to an expensive restaurant for my birthday treat. They had arranged for a surprise birthday cake for me which I cut, very happily, while they chanted birthday wishes. When the bill came, I discovered I was supposed to pay for my great 'surprise' cake. 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, it's my birthday and my friends and I went to our favorite pub to celebrate. As I'm a little broke at the moment, they all offered to buy me birthday drinks. Which I later learned meant that they would order them for me and bring them to the table, but put everything on my tab. FML
Today, my friends took me out to the most expensive restaurant in town to celebrate my promotion, we ordered everything with expensive drinks too. They 'took a smoke break' and left me with the bill. FML
Today, I celebrated my birthday with my friend who has the same birthday by going out to dinner with a bunch of our friends. The waiter brought out a cake for my friend but not for me. No one noticed my exclusion. I sang happy birthday on my birthday. FML
Today, I thought it would be nice to take my girlfriend out to a nice restaurant for my birthday. She got a little headache after we ordered, so she went outside to get some air. I ate a $100 meal and had Happy Birthday sang to me by the restaurant staff. Alone. FML
Today, it's my birthday. My wife took me to my favorite restaurant for dinner. She made me pay for my birthday dinner, along with hers. She also got me a gift card to HER favorite store. FML
Today, my friends threw me a surprise birthday party. I was genuinely surprised—and also genuinely hungover from celebrating my birthday alone the night before because they'd all told me they were busy. FML
Today, it was my birthday. But instead of a decent surprise, my friends decided to smash a cake on my face and unhook my dress, while taking a video of it. In a public shopping mall. FML
Today, my friends threw me a surprise birthday party. The problem? My birthday is tomorrow. I spent the entire evening pretending I was surprised and happy, all while knowing they got the date wrong. FML
Today, it's my birthday. I'm a pastry chef by profession. Not only did my family buy a cake from my bakery, I had to make it myself and inscribe it with 'Happy Birthday Dad'. The worst part is, they asked money from me to pay for it. FML
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Stunt_fml 5
That's pretty crappy on the part of your friends... sure they're real friends?
dearViena 0
well see... you didnt get it :] THAT was the real surprise! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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ringles 0
Cheapskates
mike_i_am 0
So your friends couldn't afford to spoil you. At least they came out and spent time with you. Some people spend their birthdays alone and don't even get wished happy birthday.. let alone have people celebrate it for them. It's not like they dine and dashed leaving you to pay for their meals and drinks too. You can't have your cake and eat it too... well.. not for free anyways
ArtsySwag 0
Lol! Would you be upset if they hadn't arranged anything at all? & I don't think that makes them horrible friends (as people have stated)...
xHaniffax 0
Why did YOU take your friends out for YOUR birthday? Surely, it should be the other way round? Nevertheless, FYL, for having shitty friends who make you pay for your own Bday cake.
fretforyerlatte 0
from reading this i gathered that OP was paying for dinner in the first place. they said "I took my friends out". if that's the case they aren't a jerk for choosing an expensive restaurant, but really who takes their friends out and pays for everything on their own birthday? then, if they're paying, it would have been nice for the friends to treat them to a surprise cake. it's really messed up that they just had it thrown on the tab.
bonafidehustler 0
Well, this one confuses me. You say YOU TOOK your friends out, so it makes it sounds like the whole dinner and everything was your plan, in which case, why would you assume your friends would pay the bill? If it was their idea, that's one thing, but if you just called them up and said "let's go out to dinner for my birthday!" Then I don't think you should be surprised that they didn't cover the bill.
Thespade_fml 0
They shouldNt order a surprise cake if they aren't going to pay for it
TryToBeKind 0
What a bunch of d i c k s! I hope that was an oversight on their part!
Revan_fml 0
Sucks to be you.
sparda4355 0
It sounds like you were fitting the bill? If so... that sucks! either way... I HATE places that charge for birthday icecream/cake... (it can't be that costly to let somebody get a free piece of cake 1 day out of the year) Food has like a 400% mark up! It's not like you went there "just" for the cake!
EMR_fml 0
happy birthday but no FML. You made it another year so your life is going ok