She spent the night with him and told her parents she was at a "friends" house.

And you know this because?

It says that in the sentence. I hate people who can't understand a simple sentence. There's no need for clarification if you would stop reading things full of hash tags and Kardashians.

It's all there in plain text. Learn to read.

But what is the problem at all? Do her parents know she's his gf and that she lied? If not so than why can't OP pretend to be this 'friend'.

#25&26 English is indeed my second language. However I think my proficiency may be adequate. I studied English for over ten years in school and university and hold a degree as foreign language correspondent for English. In addition I also lived and worked in the US for over eight years. And just because your understanding of your own native language is so limited, that you cannot see that both plots are possible, it does not make me stupid.

Thanks for the life story, needs more dragons and sword fights though.

actually it's made pretty clear "in front of her parents who thought she'd stayed at a friend's place" someome with 10 years of english schooling should be able to decipher that

#35 - 3rd place state youth championship with the sabre. - once created a giant burn mark in the garden with my chemistry kit, blamed it on dragons... didn't fly though. :-)

Stop being assholes guys. Just because something is crystal clear to you doesn't mean it will be to everyone else, especially when it comes to language. It's also not that difficult to politely explain what someone isn't understanding. I understood the FML but I do think it could have been written better.

At first I thought that the girlfriend left the op's house to go home, and told her parents she was spending the night at her "friends" which had me thinking she spent the night with someone else (another guy perhaps?) in which case my first thought was "well where did she sleep then." it wasn't until I read it a few times that I realized the girlfriend slept at op's house but lied to her parents about it and then op forgot and mentioned that she was at his house, thus revealing to the parents that she'd spent the night with him. So yes, this FML was worded very weirdly and with the way it's worded it sounds like the girlfriend could've spent the night at someone else's house, although that's not likely.

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sending off job applications doesn't mean you're unemployed, he might have a job where he's not happy at, or feels his skills could be put to better use somewhere else

Ahahahah xD

It took me a few reads, but his girlfriend lied to her parents about staying the night at a friend's house. When he mentioned the job application he accidentally busted the both of them by exposing that his girlfriend was at his house the whole time.

I think he knew, but forgot that the parents didn't.