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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Fall
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)
football98_fml 20
watch your back OP, someone might strike you while your not lookin..... and that someone could be your dad
AngrySailor 17
Maybe when you're changing his diapers you won't forget such things?
QueenVicHop 12
There are different degrees of stroke, depending on how quickly you react, or which part if the brain it effects. No two strokes are the same. It wasn't until my father's third stroke that he was paralyzed.
QueenVicHop 12
My father's had 3 strokes over the past 2 years. I've been in this exact same situation, and I was pretty mortified. If OP's experience is anything like mine, it's not that he/she forgot, it's that those jokes have become such a normal thing, it slips out rather easily.
cottoncandymango 17
You're an asshole.
thatnucca 36
Pretty insensitive of you OP... I hope your grandparents talk shit about you in Italian next time you visit...
Eivana 37
How can you forget that he had a stroke? My dad had a stroke nearly two years ago and it is STILL fresh in my memory and I worry about it nearly every day.
BlissfulLiss 18
I'm not sure why he's texting, following a stroke if it happened just last month. Shouldn't he be going through rehabilitation and physiotherapy?
graceinsheepwear 34
There are obviously levels of severity, and presumably this one wasn't too bad and the dad is functioning, hence OP briefly forgetting it had happened. My dad had a stroke; recovered quickly.
BlissfulLiss 18
Oh okay. Thanks for the info, I'm ignorant towards this type of thing.
graceinsheepwear 34
It was on the left side of his brain, and the hair on the left side of his chest went gray. Split right down the middle. So weird.
clumsycarolyn 17
Are you sure you didn't get stroke either? Pretty hard to forget that
graceinsheepwear 34
So I guess it wasn't dramatic enough, like acting drunk at a nonalcoholic party, to be memorable?
isallwaysme 27
i think i was the only one to get the reference.
worldclassrager 41
To him that will not be a joke...
gemstone586 12
Thank you captain obvious... I've been watching your comments and i can't figure out if you're serious or if this is your idea of sarcasm....
pacelily 17
You don't know that. He could have a sense if humor and laugh it off. My family always make jokes about my grandpa having only one leg, he makes jokes about it to.