Today, my grandparents took me out for dinner for my birthday. After singing, "Happy birthday dear…" they froze. I had to say my own name because they'd forgotten it. FML
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Today, my parents took me out to dinner. I thought they were taking me because it's my birthday. Turns out they are getting divorced. They forgot it was my birthday. FML
Today, it's my birthday. At my workplace, we always get a cake for whoever's birthday it is. They somehow forgot about me. I've been working there for a year, and my grandparents and my dad own the restaurant I work at. FML
Today, my grandpa took the family out for dinner and paid for everyone. He paid the bill and my family and I were waiting by the door. I realised I probably should thank him for dinner. I turned around without thinking and give him a big hug, and said, "Thanks for dinner Grandpa." It wasn't my grandpa. FML
Today, I ordered a beer with my parents at dinner. The waitress said, "Oh, happy 22nd birthday." My parents eyes got really big, and they started to blush. They'd forgotten it was my birthday. FML
Today, I celebrated my birthday with my family. While they were singing Happy Birthday to me, my mother called me by my brother's name. When I blew out the candles a moment later, I joked, "I wish my mother could remember which son I am." Before we had even started eating the cake, she called me by my father's name. FML
Today, it was my birthday. Two of my best friends forgot it, and so did my grandparents. All of my friends were busy, so I spent it alone in my car. FML
Today, for my birthday, my family offered to take one of my friends to the movies with me. I had to pay a random person in my class to pose as a friend of mine, so that I wouldn't look pathetic in front of my parents. She forgot my name three times. They didn't buy it. FML
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
Today, it was my birthday. My family usually gives me a financial gift, but didn't this time and said nothing about it. I cooked my own birthday dinner without help, then washed everyone's dishes. I got my own cake and ate it alone because they were too busy getting drunk. Nobody bothered to sing Happy Birthday either. FML
Today, I took my girlfriend out to a fancy restaurant for her birthday. I'd arranged beforehand for some of the staff to come out and sing happy birthday to her, but it all backfired when she started panicking and had a serious anxiety attack from all the attention. FML
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Top comments
Mioko_fml 6
Atleast they remember your bday... How did they remember your birthday if they don't know your name anyway o.o
mimori_kiryu 5
Well at least you got free food
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Comments (95)
afer85 4
I've been there, I know it sucks sorry. My family can't even spell my name right, including my own parents.
Welshite 40
Your own parents can't spell your name correctly? Did they just scramble a bunch of letters together when you were born and hope for the best?
P_to_the_AM 9
My grandma usually calls me by the wrong name just because she's old and has to remember a lot anyway
Justinface 9
to them,your name is ''grandson''
perdix 31
Maybe they don't like you and were coerced by your parents to take you out, or else they'd throw them into that old-age home where they beat the old folks and feed 'em dog food.
Welshite 40
What sort of deranged retirement homes have you visited?
perdix 31
The ones that accept me as a volunteer. Heh, heh, heh!
Welshite 40
Oh, well that certainly explains it... You probably took lessons from the nursing home orderly in Happy Gilmore.
theluckyones 10
Grandma - Sir, um, could I trouble you for a glass of warm milk? It helps put me to sleep. Orderly - You could trouble me for a glass of warm milk. Now you will go to sleep, or I will put you to sleep. Check out the nametag. You're in my world now Grandma. lol
trucker67 10
It happens when you age - my grandparents used to forget my name sometimes too because they had so many grandchildren they had difficulty remembering them all , but I guess that happens when you have 10 kids.
chronicwanker 4
Either you're a shitty grandchild or your grandparents are ******* old and senile. Either way you should harden the **** up.
xxGheTToGumbYxx 16
You sound like a badass.
THE_A_TEEN 28
Just an Internet Tough Guy who thinks his advice is better than anyone else and belittles both parties on the FML.
jmacfan1 16
Sounds like they have alzheimers. My grandparents had it and my one living grandma has it. Before my grandpa passed away he didn't know who I was. He didn't even recognise his own kids most of the time.
olpally 33
That is sad they forgot your name, but happy birthday op! :)
perdix 31
They didn't forget, they just know that you can sing the first two "Happy birthday to you"'s for free under the Fair Use doctrine. If you go past the "dear," you owe royalties to the Hill sisters. And they have thugs trolling casual-dining restaurants ready to collect.
Isa_fml 20
Do you have a big extended family? My grandma forgot my age once when she sent me a birthday present, and she was pretty sharp. I wasn't really offended; she had just had about a million birthdays and names to keep track of. I'm one of ten grandkids, plus my mother has about forty first cousins. Then there's all the great nieces/nephews, her own siblings and cousins... it's nuts. I'm sure they love you, people just draw a blank sometimes. Hope it was a nice dinner anyway! Happy birthday!
theluckyones 10
My grandparents were very bored young people with no TV, they had 6 boys and 7 girls. With about 60 cousins and counting. My Grandparents named me after my own mom, same exact name (didn't even take my dads last name) so they never forgot my name.
morgiepuff 14
My great-grandparents had twenty-one kids. That resulted in quite a few grandchildren.
Isa_fml 20
Holy crap, I bet it did. In my family it's a plague of cousins.