Birthday and Miscellaneous: Long wait

Long wait

By Candace - 27/01/2010 03:31 - United States

Today, my best friend planned a birthday party for me at the local Mexican restaurant. NO ONE showed up. We'd told the waiter there would be 18 arriving. Two hours later he brought me free ice cream. Even the non-English speaking waiters knew I was a loser. FML

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By jet8725 - 23/02/2009 04:05 - United States

Today, I celebrated my birthday with my friend who has the same birthday by going out to dinner with a bunch of our friends. The waiter brought out a cake for my friend but not for me. No one noticed my exclusion. I sang happy birthday on my birthday. FML

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By STUPID BIRTHDAY - 05/03/2009 07:24 - United States

Today, it's my birthday and I'd arranged a dinner party for 20 of my closest friends. I arrived at the restaurant, fully dressed and everything. When I got there, I thought everyone was ready to surprise me, but instead, nobody showed up. FML

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Left behind

By Anonymous - 01/10/2020 17:02 - United States - Los Angeles

Today, it was my best friend's birthday party. Her boyfriend and I agreed to organize a dinner date to surprise her and celebrate. They celebrated, but forgot me until they arrived at the restaurant and saw the dinner reservation under my name. FML

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Wait!

By jordy1995 - 16/07/2011 04:25 - United States

Today, I found out I can't go to my best friend's birthday party. To cheer me up, my parents decided to take me and my brother to my favorite pizzeria for dinner. When I was ready and went downstairs, I discovered they left already. They forgot me. FML

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By ELLI - 02/10/2017 04:30

Today, all of my friends showed up an hour late for my 18th birthday party because they decided to go get dinner without me. FML

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Plans

By not invited - This FML is from back in 2015 but it's good stuff - United States - Appleton

Today, a close friend told me she had no plans for her birthday. I found out she was lying when I had to serve her and nine other mutual friends dinner at the restaurant I work at. I don't know what's worse, the fact that I wasn't invited or that none of them even remembered that I worked there. FML

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By Callum536 - 22/08/2016 09:51 - United Kingdom - Birmingham

Today, it's my birthday and I'd invited quite a lot of my friends to come round and have some fun. When I got home, I saw a few cars outside. It turned out to be for the neighbours. I waited and waited; none of my friends showed up. FML

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By 27musiclover - 16/08/2009 14:41 - United States

Today, my best friend told me I'm the friend who no one really likes. This was after I had bought her lunch, ice cream, and a ticket to a movie we were going to see that day. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/04/2015 12:28 - United Kingdom - Dundee

Today, it was my 18th birthday and I was told I couldn't get the night off work because a party of 34 had booked into the restaurant. It turned out my family had come in to 'celebrate' by making me wait on them. They were a nightmare, thought it was hilarious to be difficult, and didn't tip. FML

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By Hotsauce887 - 29/03/2009 21:08 - United States

Today, my friend told the cute waiter it was my birthday. He brought out a dessert with a candle and put a huge sombrero on my head. Everyone at the restaurant started singing me happy birthday. I got embarrassed and put my head down. My sombrero caught on fire. FML

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cjammer 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 9:21

Your friends suck. That, in my opinion, is the FML. But, I don't know how you got the impression that "non-english speaking waiters knew" you were a loser. Did they come right out and tell you so? Or is it because they brought you free ice cream? A lot of restaurants give you a free dessert when it's your birthday, so that is probably why they gave you ice cream. You shouldn't think of it as a pity-treat. You need to build new friendships and re-build your self-esteem, because automatically assuming the waiters are thinking the worse kinda says you're not comfortable with yourself.

bc_ramirez08 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 9:18

Awww... I'm sorry. Make new friends! I would have gone (I love Mexican food)!! :D

Comments

bazinga_fml 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 20:54

Poor girl! Maybe you got the wrong day? As for the wait-staff, the language of lonliness is universal. Sorry bout your birthday. I hope today is better,

omgzdude 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 21:07

well, a) you got almost no friends, and b) enjoy the ice cream....

brutal_banger 10

Wednesday 27 January 2010 22:51

loser

KuchkaNumberOne 2

Tuesday 6 March 2012 21:40

Great comment! Did it take you long to come up with that??

i24music 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:12

Happy birthday.....Im sorry about about the people not showing up but at least you have your best friend!!!!!! :D

bsr414 0

Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:59

Why should the fact that he doesn't speak English have anything to do with him being able to see no one showed up? So what if he calls it 'un perdidor'?

l33tm0nk3y 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 0:26

Agreed -- language barriers don't mean a person is completely oblivious to social cues and the like. Those kinds of things are pretty universal. And hey, at least he had some sympathy instead of just laughing at you!

Failfly 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 1:28

Awwww... that's sooo sad... i would of came!

bambidazzlelips 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 1:36

maybe you don't have friends because you're racist

OmgiLove 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 2:56

Total YDI Firstly you implied that "non-English" speaking people cannot understand a thing by your little judgemental comment. Secondly you do NOT put yourself out there if you have no friends. You don't try to commit to friendships.So YDI

MLGS 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 3:23

Everyone is calling this person racist. All they said was that the non-english speaking waiters understood ... hello maybe they really didn't speak english. Sadly, you don't need to speak any language to recognize a loser. But Your "best freind" who planned it... was the failure. Shitty friend to put you in that situation.

fa11en 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 4:47

It reminds me of my 13th birthday party when I invited all these girls from my school to come on over to my house for a huge party. I didn't understand why no was talking to me though about it but blew it off. The day of my birthday party, everyone stood me including my ex-bestfriend who claimed to be in Kentucky at the time (it turned out that she got an invite from a girl in her dance class to come to her house and decided to go.) The only one who did show up was my neighbor who is 3 years younger then me and her little sister. Apparently there was a rumor going around that I killed someone. I didn't learn about it till later and then realized that people were avoiding me for the past two months. Everyone including my parents and neighbor forgot my 16 birthday.