Today, my parents, who are divorced, were arguing over who has to pay for my bus pass. They decided they wouldn't pay unless the other one did too. Neither will pay the £60 it'll cost for my bus pass. I now have to walk to school every day, in freezing winter weather. It's 9 miles. Each way. 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 that they've been having a contest to see who could punish me the most this week. So far, my mom is in the lead by kicking me out of the car near railroad tracks, and making me walk the 4 miles home in the freezing rain. FML
Today, I learned that when I start University next month I will have to either pay $900 for an all-access semester-long parking pass, pay $200 for for a bus pass that takes an hour to get to campus, or pay $100 to park outside campus and walk 4 miles to and from class each day. FML
Today, my girlfriend and I were waiting for the bus. The weather had been cold and snowy recently, and I realized I'd forgotten my transit card. She nonetheless got on the bus without me. I had to walk it alone in the snow. FML
Today, my dad said that if I walked home from school, a distance of 8 miles, he would give me $50. Two hours and four massive blisters later, I come home. When I asked for my money, he said "I was kidding." FML
Today, in addition to having to deal with chronic pain that keeps me from driving for more than 10 minutes, I now have to deal with my brother who thinks I'm not paying him enough for taking me to school 2 days a week, when he does the journeys for himself anyway. FML
Today, I got another parking ticket because I can't afford a parking pass for the school I attend. I now have over $700 in unpaid parking tickets. I have classes all day from Monday-Thursday. I work Friday-Sunday. They recently cut hours at work. Some days I can't afford to feed myself. My mom said, "Figure it out." FML
Today, the seat in my car broke and wouldn't move forward. I had to walk to school in the rain because I was too short to reach the pedals. FML
Today, my parents promised to drive me to my grandma's house instead of me taking the bus.I was so excited that I could finally have a week away from my suffocating parents but my dad cancelled tonight, so I'm stuck and secretly crying because if they'd have let me take the bus, I'd be at my grandma's, AWAY FROM THEM. FML
Today, my dad took my car keys off my keychain and hid them from me. His reasoning was, "I don't want you to be driving during the winter." Guess who has to walk ten miles a day to work, through the New England snow. FML
Today, I'm so broke that I had to call in sick to work because I couldn't afford to pay my bus fare. FML
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whatevaaaa 0
wow your parents suck..poor you! :( and that sucks that you have to walk 18 miles everyday...in cold weather :( FYL
ahimsa7 0
1) It's snowing some places, so "winter weather" is not an unreasonable thing to say. 2) £60 is over 100 USD. Not necessarily that easy to come by, especially if... 3) OP may be a young kid with limited options. 4) Your parents totally suck. You could buy a pretty cheap bike and ride to school. And if you don't have the money, shovel snow (if there's snow) or do some silly jobs until you can afford a cheap solution.
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Psychs7 11
Right, i'm english. Firstly it takes me 15 minutes to walk one mile and if it takes you much more than that your fat, end of. Second, secondary school goes until your 16 here and the OP is in secondary school so most likly 14 or 15 and since you legaly can't get a job until 16 unless its a paper round or something which averagly pays a max of £15 a week, if that, and as i had to buy my buss pass every month that wouldn't be enough for her to manage. Third it is snowing here, it does up north all year round and the south most of it. Fourth who cares if it's nine miles here or there or whatever, she clearly means one way not round trip, and even if she didn't the grammer and English used isn't what we are supposed to be talkig about. Fifth my school didn't have an option for a free bus pass, not all do, only the good ones, and it certainly didn't have the funds to give me money, it was basicaly tough luck that i lived 15 miles away, except that i could afford my pass, i'd imagine it's the same for her as she wouldn't willingly walk 9 miles in the cold. I rekon it's real, and i rekon it's a bitch to live with. i wouldn't cut class because of what it would do to your grades, but i would definitly complain about your parents, if a slap and shouting sesion doesn't work. They need to sort there F***ing lives out. FYL
OLOtheDemigodess 0
well said :P
OLOtheDemigodess 0
wow someone sounds intelligent. ... rawr. :P
Ninjaface 0
On the bright side, just strategically add the word "uphill" and you have a story to tell your grandkids.
HighLife19 0
Parents are so immature sometimes. Hell, either pay it yourself or take they're car!
ming88 0
cant they split it half half?? hahaha dumbasses
samisaBEAR 0
I don't know why you pay £60, my girlfriend lives in Birmingham and hers is like £45 or something like that. Does Coventry not use Travel West Midlands?
sugarcoated 1
My bus pass costs £55 GBP a month for college, so I can totally believe the £60. It's barely in my budget as it is and I have a job too. In Sheffield, where I am, 16-18s have a 40 pence bus pass, but when I started my third year at college, I have to pay for a "full time work/educational" pass. OP, if you are under eighteen, it would be good to look into the travel pass options available to you. If you are in a low income situation, some city councils offer free travel passes to education-goers. OP also needs to contact their forum tutor/head teacher or who ever they can at the school. The parents are being jerks and someone working at the school will most definately be able to help you sort it out financially, or at the very least talk to your parents. As for the metric vs. imperial thing goes - in the UK, we use miles in general as a unit for measuring distance, but for smaller measurments we are taught to use centimetres and metres, grams, kilograms etc. but also to be able to convert these measurments to inches, feet, yards etc. I rarely see the term 'kilometres' used outside of car theory tests. Also, driving age is seventeen, which they are hiring. We do not have drivers ed in school. Driving is not a given and is a very expensive process costing around £20 GBP per hour lesson, so I doubt 'take their car' is an option. Of my adult friends, it's maybe 1 in 4 are drivers. Most people don't bother while still in your teens because insurance can be £1000 GBP plus. I wish these idiots posting retarded comments would be a little more knowledgable before they respond. I thought the '9 miles, both ways' was perfectly acceptable to describe a 18-mile-all-round trip. =/
Brouhaha_fml 0
ydi for using too many ******* periods noob
GillKate 0
for all those people yelling at the OP to get a job.. have you tried to get one recently?! It's bloody difficult, and she would only get the minimum wage, which makes trying to make £60 (which is VERY expensive for a bus pass) a month near enough impossible. But, in any case, I think this is either greatly exaggerated or, if the parents argued about this 'today', the the OP doesn't actually have to walk 18 miles round trip, it was just said as a solution in the heat of the moment. I'm sure they wouldn't make her walk 18 miles, because it would take about 12 hours.
stoobo 0
It should be legal to shoot anyone who calls people "noob"