Today, I received a text from my dad, which was borderline-incomprehensible due to an insane amount of text language. I replied, jokingly asked if he had a stroke while writing it. A few seconds after hitting send, I remembered the stroke he suffered last month. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got a text message. It said, "I'm so drunk. What you up to, girl?" It was my dad. FML
Today, I had to convince my dad that text lingo causes brain damage just to try to get him to stop. He actually believed me, and is telling everyone they have, or will receive brain damage soon. FML
Today, I was texting a friend of mine. She mentioned it was her dad's birthday. I typed, "Tell him 'Happy Birthday' from me!" and as I pressed send, I remembered her dad was dead. FML
Today, I called my mom to let her know that my father, her ex-husband, suffered a series of mini strokes. Her reply was essentially, "Oh that sucks. Are you still taking your grandmother to lunch sometime this week?" Dad lives halfway across the country. FML
Today, my dad texted me, "I love u." I replied, "I love you too dad... are you drunk?" He answers back, "Of course I am..." My dad only tells me he loves me when he's drunk. FML
Today, I meant to send a spicy message to my partner, but sent it to my dad due to the Whatsapp conversations being next to each other on my computer screen, and me not paying attention due to being an idiot. My dad replied, “Uh... not sure I needed that mental image.” FML
Today, my dad asked me to send my mom a text since he was driving and I was in the passenger seat. I pulled up my mom's contact on his phone, and I found that my mom had recently sent my dad a picture of her jugs, along with the message, "We miss you." FML
Today, my friend's dad had a heart attack. Without realizing what I was saying, I texted her, "If you need anything, you know I'll be there in a heartbeat." FML
Today, my 61 year-old father snatched a letter from my hands and threw four different fits because he misread it four different times, then yelled at me for "not reading it properly." I had to explain it to him. FML
Today, I tried to tell my dad that I was really struggling with my mental health and didn't think I could stay alive much longer. He laughed. This comes after telling my "best friend" last week and having to wait three days for a reply. FML
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iamananglophile 18
How could you forget something like that?
GeniusInABottle 8
I guess you're just having a stroke of bad luck. *ba dum tss*
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Comments (76)
CrookedCook 14
Perhaps he didn't think it was a joke and actually thought it was a sincere question. Unless of course you ended your message with "LOL"
Wizardo 34
Yeah hopefully OPs dad can shrug it off, hope he's on the road to recovery though.
RedPillSucks 33
Or he thinks LOL is "Lots of love"
GeniusInABottle 8
I guess you're just having a stroke of bad luck. *ba dum tss*
iamananglophile 18
How could you forget something like that?
Ambient25 25
Easy, OP's dad may have played it off. I know I would...
graceinsheepwear 34
You can't really play off a stroke. At least not while your words are slurred.
loldatssad 12
Usually that's the type of thing you can't forget.
doodlecloud 27
I'm betting OP never really accepted it in the first place. Dad got on with it so OP found it easy to slip back into the day to day and never really faced and dealt with the issue. That's the only explanation I can think of.
firefighter925 18
Yea I've seen many people who were havin a stroke. there's no fakin it.
CTMPandemonium 16
#35 Or OP was so distraught about it that s/he blocked it out of his/her memory, and asking that question suddenly "un-severred" the tie in his/her memory a little too late?
sadistmonkey 19
There's a difference between forgetting something happened, and not remembering that something you said is directly relevant to the event that happened. I'm pretty sure the OP didn't literally forget that her dad had a stroke. Just had a foot in mouth (finger?) moment remembering that that joke isn't appropriate for her dad.
aeonsoul 12
And the daughter-of-the-year goes to...!
Sansa_fml 38
Especially when it's about your father.
slooby_fml 25
Are you serious? You sound like a self-centered douche
Jelbeztok 17
what makes op self-centered?
soulebelius 17
Because he forgot his dad had a stroke!!
SystemofaBlink41 27
She could've been a fast typer and remembered the exact time she pressed sent...
lukewhit 4
yeah that makes sense, a guy doesn't have perfect memory so he's a self-centered douche
slooby_fml 25
Forgetting that someone you love had a stroke? That sounds pretty self centered to me. You don't just forget something like that unless you didn't really care all that much about it in the first place
Fedezzer 20
Obviously you don't know how the male mind works.
Fedezzer 20
I couldn't replace my previous post, so here is a second: have you ever instinctively said "what?" in a conversation and then realised what they had said anyway? The FML is a bit like that.
Ali_Br_fml 33
sometimes I really don't know what the person said, and I really mean "what?" and a few seconds I realize what was said...like my ears didn't catch up to my brain & mouth or something, but when I think about it, I hear it properly in my head. on to OP's situation...Just because you momentarily forget doesn't mean you don't care. you're so caught up in the heat of the moment that all else goes on the backburner. Maybe OP doesn't live with their dad, and didn't actually hear about it until he was better. Some parents don't tell their kids that type of stuff. Maybe he downplayed it when he told OP, and shrugged it off as if it was no big deal. If you experience something, it's burned into your memory more than when someone just tells you. If OP wasn't sitting there praying for their father to get better, maybe it wasn't burned deeply enough into their memory to be recalled each time they talk to their dad... I've never seen a person having a stroke though, so I don't know how traumatic it is, or how long one stays in the hospital afterwards... it could have been a mini stroke...
BossPathfinderGM 14
How can you forget such a life-threatening occurance?
BillyJones 4
make it up to him by stroking his back.
olpally 33
GO HELP HIM YA DICK! Jesus. How do you forget about your father having a stroke last month? :/ **** his life.
olpally 33
I hope so.
graceinsheepwear 34
OP is a woman...
olpally 33
Oops. Missed it. FML.
Nobody_Nowhere 12
Well, your life must be interesting OP. interesting enough to forget something like a stroke.
Zeishah 26
you forgot????? well ydi you're inconsiderate and insensitive
funky2525 14
Its ok OP, you didn't mean to.
Laurenluvz 11
Exactly. Mistakes happen. No matter how big it is, it's still kind of reasonable to forget. Maybe it was a bit traumatizing for OP and She wanted to forget it. We really don't know more than the fact that OP forgot about a big issue at the wrong time.