Today, while waiting in line at Gamestop, another customer and the cashier started chatting about how Pokémon is for kids, and anyone over 10 who's into it is weird. Embarrassed, I put the new Pokémon game back on the shelf and snuck out of the store. 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 babysat a 10-year-old and we played Pokémon. It was my first time playing, so he showed me. I ended up winning and the kid started crying and told his parents he hated me. They decided not to pay me for the night, and now I'm out of a job. FML
Today, my husband bought a Pokémon game and started playing it in bed. It's like I'm married to an eight year-old boy. Why can't I have a normal man, who reads books or even plays normal games for an adult? I can barely look at him without feeling ashamed for settling with such an overgrown child. FML
Today, at work, my buddy pulled up in his car. I handed him $40, and he handed me a bag. It must have looked like a drug deal, but he was actually just smuggling in the new Pokémon game for me. I'm 22, and a drug deal would probably have been less embarrassing to explain. FML
Today, I was at a gas station when the cash register made a sound effect similar to one from Sonic the Hedgehog, and I pointed this out. The cashier then saw fit to go on a rant about how I need to stop focusing on video games, and get a life and a girlfriend. FML
Today, my mom and I somehow got into a serious argument over the ethics of capturing and training Pokémon. FML
Today, I bought How To Train Your Dragon and the cashier started complaining how her kids keep demanding dragon stuff and that mine will start after they see the movie. I don't have any kids, and I didn't have the courage to tell her I was buying it for myself. FML
Today, working my job, I had to explain to a kid that Pokemon is owned by Nintendo and they don't make it for the Xbox. Upset by this, he took hold of my leg and started biting. I'm also suspended, because his mother complained when I kicked him off me. FML
Today, I tried buying a video game that was rated "M - for mature". The Cashier told me "you have to be 17 to buy this game". I didn't have any ID on me. I'm 25. FML
Today, I was out shopping with my son and unbeknownst to me, he had secretly added a bunch of expensive games he wanted to the trolley. I was too embarrassed at the till to make a fuss as there was a huge line behind me. I watched as my normal £50 shopping bill climbed to over £400. FML
Today, while shopping, I saw a little girl and her mom. The girl was pouting so I tried to cheer her up by asking her if she was a princess, because she was so pretty. She smiled but her mom looked at me with disgust and told me to, "Get lost, pedo." I'm a 17-year-old girl. FML
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Sl1mShad3y 10
I wouldve walked right up and said how much is this game?
Brock2607 3
Pokemon rocks!
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littlemissalex 3
Don't be embarrassed about liking Pokemon. I'm 16, and I've been playing for as long as I can remember. Pokemon rocks!
Thejackel79 9
And this is why I can't stand gamestop. Don't mind him and go play pokemon
divine69 0
It's for my younger sibling / child / friend of a younger age
THE_A_TEEN 28
all pokemon haters, GET OUT OF HERE. Just because we like a game gives you the right to bash us for our desicion? "pokemon is for little kids/it sucks/DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE/GROW UP/PERMA-VIRGINS/LOSERS/*******/LOSS OF SOCIAL LIFE" = this guy (me) hates whoever writes this. 1) we enjoy it. 2) any one objects, I hate you. 3) Respect our damn desicion. That is all.
iGotzChinzzzzzzz 1
Aww
RLG 7
Dude? Forget mw3 and bf3 POKÉMON IS WHERE IT'S AT!
Bluemonster3 26
I am 18 and still play pokemon :D Don't listen to what other people say about it :)
drod8287 0
don't be ashamed to play a video game. who cares if it is marketed towards a younger generation
CadyAsInKatie 8
That's preposterous!!! POKEMON IS FOR GAMERS DAMNIT!! not just lil kids. XP and who cares what THEY think?! U don't know them and they don't know u.
fatalwish 6
Cant say im into pokemon however ive ran into the same problem with elder scrolls titles my opinion dont let what other people think of you get to you had it been me i would have bitten the perverbial soap bar and made them both look like dicks.
Bleachfan_fml 0
I got shit for playing Alice:MR. Apparently, it's for "goth freaks" or just plain "freaks". I think you shouldn't listen to society. Most of them don't know what they're talking about.