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By sadmother - 01/07/2011 23:12 - Canada

Today, I asked my daughter what time it was. She stared at the clock for several seconds before muttering, "I don't know". She's 14 years old and on the honour roll, and yet she can't tell the time on an analogue clock. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/11/2010 17:35 - Canada

Today, my grandma walked into my room and asked if the thing lying on my nightstand was a computer. I said ''Grandma, that's a clock.'' After staring at me, confused for a few seconds, she then farted, and left my room. FML

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By WatchOut - 16/08/2013 16:04 - Singapore - Singapore

Today, I submitted my big assignment to my teacher at 1:55pm. The deadline was 2pm. She rejected it, because her watch read a few minutes after 2pm, and she maintains that the time on her watch is the "real" time. FML

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By Mothering - This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - Australia

Today, I took my 16 year-old daughter to get a bank account, taking her birth certificate with us as requested. When the teller wrote her name down on a piece of paper, my daughter said, "How do you know my name?" The teller just looked at her and held up her birth certificate. I raised a nitwit. FML

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chipnchips 0

Saturday 2 July 2011 5:51

time to switch to digital clocks

krysxkatastrophe 14

Saturday 2 July 2011 5:55

I know college kids who can't read a regular clock. It scares me that these people are the future of this world.

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ImTheAlpha 30

Monday 5 March 2012 2:05

So? Nobody at my school or the nearby high school can either. None of the teachers expect us to, nor the parents.

Tom O'Halloran 9

Saturday 1 February 2020 3:53

I don't blame her, it sounds like a parenting fail to me.

Hangryko 31

Monday 16 May 2022 2:20

I hope you taught her how by now.

IHaveThePower 16

Friday 26 May 2023 7:13

This is a symptom of a learning disability called dyscalculia. It affects how she reads numbers, processes time, and a bunch of other stuff. Get her tested.