Today, while getting ready to welcome my first child into the world, my father in law decided to "help out" and threw out a bunch of papers I needed. Like my child's application for a health card, social insurance number, and my birth plan, as well as instructions from my doctor. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I happily announced to my parents that I'm pregnant. My dad later handed me a printout containing a list of nearby abortion clinics. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, I gave birth to my firstborn child. Somehow, my mom and mother-in-law made their way to the delivery room, and walked in mid-push. While they were escorted out, I overheard my mother-in-law asking the nurse how her son, my husband, was holding up. FML
Today, my mom asked me to take my dad's mail to him. The "mail" was divorce papers. FML
Today, despite being the first to hold all my other grandchildren, despite my son and bitch of a daughter-in-law agreeing I would be the first, I showed up at the hospital to see my daughter-in-law's father holding my grandchild before me. FML
Today, I helped deliver the baby belonging to the woman my husband left me for. FML
Today, I was met with an unfortunate clerical error, receiving a letter from WIC with a cheery handwritten note instructing me to call when the baby arrives. I guess they forgot I was there four months ago to discuss the changes in benefits after a miscarriage. FML
Today, my mother-in-law took a phone message on the back of my marriage license. FML
Today, I went to my dad's workplace because my sister was there and I wanted to see my newborn niece. I was overjoyed until my dad came up to me. It had apparently been pretty hectic for the past week, because he was on the verge of another stress-induced heart attack. Yes, another. We had to help him outside. FML
Today, I had to leave my ACT prep class ten minutes in to pick up my drunken father from his best friend's baby shower. I picked him up along with a bill for the damage. FML
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ns1985 15
You go throw him out in return.
Welshite 40
I'm not above digging through trash if necessary. Get them before they are gone forever.
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Comments (41)
jaco73 7
What an idiot!!!
etishuman22 32
OP, I hope everything works out for you! So sorry that you had to deal with something so misfortunate!
streetriots 9
Oh no! I don't know how people ever gave birth without paperwork.
RedPillSucks 33
Have you seen the hospital bill for a maternity stay? The giving birth is the easy part. Believe me, you want that paper work that says that you have insurance, etc. And there's tonnes of stuff, including social security, that needs to be filed. Including the paternity of the child, etc...
streetriots 9
Success!
gkhalil98 16
I mean at least he tried?
queerdragon 20
Yeah. Last week my sister tried to be helpful and tried to throw out the "lewd" drawings my boyfriend did. They were for his art class. Luckily I was able to stop her from ripping more than one. This is why I do not give out keys to people in my family. If ever need someone to do something while I am away, I pay a friend to do it. My family thinks my house is their house and they can do as they like. I have had more than one talk about not going through our files, throwing out things, moving them around, or borrowing things. So, to make this short, talk to your father-in-law about not cleaning up your house.
ahsanmasood 4
First of all congratulations! I am sure your father in law had the best of intentions, and the poor chap was perhaps just helping you clean stuff out. Try not to hold this against him. And do get a hold of all those documents as soon as you can...they sound really really important! And once again, congratulations to you and your wife!
worldclassrager 41
They are needed but honestly he wanted to help..,he should HELP you fill them out...or something like that...
smiles656 19
Shame man, clearly OP's father-in-law was just trying to help but OP could've also put such important papers in a safe place away from unimportant papers. FYL though.
brezy123 1
seriously get over yourself be happy you have someone there to help you all those things are replaceable
Sheh_fml 25
While his intentions where probably good, I will still never understand why some people feel like they are in any way allowed to sort through stuff that isn't theirs. Even if you asked his help, people should double check before throwing stuff out.