Today, I was told I will receive no Christmas or birthday presents for the next 3 years because my parents paid for my rhinoplasty. I needed it because my 12-year-old brother smashed my nose with a hammer in a fit of rage. 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, my parents told me they'd be willing to pay for me to get a nose job. I asked them what was wrong with my nose, and they said nothing, it's just not the kind of nose they'd prefer to feature in our Christmas photos. FML
Today, I'm so broke, I asked my parents if they'd pay for me to go to the eye doctor and consider it my Christmas present. FML
Today, my grandmother told me she would pay for me to get a nose job. I never thought there was a problem with my nose. FML
Today, I spent the morning in the ER with a broken arm. My little brother was in such a rush to get his presents first, that he violently shoved me out of the way on the stairs. FML
Today, I sit isolated from my family with presents I cannot give. Though I respect my brother's religious beliefs and life ideals, he chooses to hate mine. He has gone out of his way to refuse patching up our relationship and now my parents who are at his house are not answering their phone. "Merry X-mas…" FML
Today, a lady told me that I should sue whoever screwed up my "nose job" so badly. This is the nose I was born with. FML
Today, my mom told me I was a bad daughter because I didn't get anything for my parents' anniversary. I just sent my brother a check for $400 for my share of their gift. FML
Today, my younger brother decided it would be fun to slam a door on my hand while I was holding my brand new $200 cell phone that I got for my birthday. Nothing says Happy Birthday like a broken phone to go along with a broken hand. FML
Today, my boyfriend called and told me he had a surprise for me and to meet up with him to find out. The big surprise was a consultation with a plastic surgeon for rhinoplasty surgery. I never disliked my nose. FML
Today, it was my brother's birthday. I was short on money but got him a present anyway. After opening it, he looked at it and said, "I didn't really want this." FML
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Top comments
Christina Winden 22
They should also be paying for his anger management therapy. God nose he needs it.
TheJawsman 18
Perhaps your brother should be the one going without presents...until he's 18 and out of the house. Or your parents could invest in your brother's therapy because doing that kind of thing at 12 is a gateway to far more abusive behaviors. If he did that to any kid not in his family he would be in jail.
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PhoenixChick 26
Since your brother was a minor, it is literally your parents legal obligation to cover your medical expenses even if you are an adult. They are trying to recoup that cost from YOU? If you are a minor, tell every adult in your life that you're being punished for your brother assaulting you. If you're an adult, avoid the toxic mofos
NostalgiaFreak9 43
I really hope it’s also because your parents have to pay for anger management therapy for your brother. If gifts are still in the budget and your parents give your brother actual gifts this year that aren’t books on anger management (then again, why wait until Christmas to give him those?), they need a serious reality check. If he’s willing to harm a family member during a fit of rage, who knows what he’ll do to someone outside of the family.
Joe Petro 6
I tell you what he should have ducked
Sinshine 28
Time to smash every gift he gets for the next 3 years with a hammer.
msmith120 4
Ummm, aren't the parents legally obligated to pay for that (being that it is medically necessary). Also, isn't there some sort of law requiring them to have the 12 year old arrested for attempted murder with a deadly weapon? Wow, it's obvious who the favorite is in this house.
CoyoteOldOne 17
Is it because they cannot afford it, after such a large expense, and it is not directed at you? Or are they actually being horrid about it?
chessu 21
I second that question
darkshadus 10
You should smash all his gifts for the next 3 years with the same hammer and right before you do it say "remember this hammer?"
darksinner222 12
He wouldn’t be getting any either because I smashed his knee caps
DanielleinDC 34
Your parents suck. Your younger brother sucks. In fact, he should have been charged with criminal assault, child or no. And given that the surgery was necessary because you had a severe injury, shouldn't insurance have paid for it?
HorrorJr 26
Ouch wtf