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By abc - 27/05/2009 10:15 - Pakistan

Today, I took my friends out to an expensive restaurant for my birthday treat. They had arranged for a surprise birthday cake for me which I cut, very happily, while they chanted birthday wishes. When the bill came, I discovered I was supposed to pay for my great 'surprise' cake. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/01/2011 15:33 - United States

Today, I went to dinner with friends for my birthday. During the whole thing they insisted that we get whatever we wanted and celebrate, but when the check came, they all looked at me expectantly. I just bought my friends $150 of food for my birthday present. FML

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By Anonymous - 11/12/2009 16:52 - United States

Today, it's my birthday and my friends and I went to our favorite pub to celebrate. As I'm a little broke at the moment, they all offered to buy me birthday drinks. Which I later learned meant that they would order them for me and bring them to the table, but put everything on my tab. FML

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By howrude - 11/09/2009 11:57 - Canada

Today, my friends took me out to the most expensive restaurant in town to celebrate my promotion, we ordered everything with expensive drinks too. They 'took a smoke break' and left me with the bill. 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 Anonymous - 27/09/2009 05:16 - United States

Today, I thought it would be nice to take my girlfriend out to a nice restaurant for my birthday. She got a little headache after we ordered, so she went outside to get some air. I ate a $100 meal and had Happy Birthday sang to me by the restaurant staff. Alone. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/02/2022 18:01

Today, it's my birthday. My wife took me to my favorite restaurant for dinner. She made me pay for my birthday dinner, along with hers. She also got me a gift card to HER favorite store. FML

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By Anonymous - 20/06/2024 16:00 - Australia

Today, my friends threw me a surprise birthday party. I was genuinely surprised—and also genuinely hungover from celebrating my birthday alone the night before because they'd all told me they were busy. FML

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By Nothingonyou - 08/09/2010 07:35 - France

Today, it was my birthday. But instead of a decent surprise, my friends decided to smash a cake on my face and unhook my dress, while taking a video of it. In a public shopping mall. FML

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By Blade83 - 09/08/2024 12:00 - Australia - Perth

Today, my friends threw me a surprise birthday party. The problem? My birthday is tomorrow. I spent the entire evening pretending I was surprised and happy, all while knowing they got the date wrong. FML

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By unappreciated - 25/06/2009 02:38 - United States

Today, I took my best friend out to dinner for my birthday. She gave me a gift after I paid the tab saying, "my mom thought you would like this - it was expensive." It was a lovely set of origami paper, which was the exact set I brought her as a souvenir from Japan. She was right, it was expensive. FML

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Wednesday 27 May 2009 16:34

That's pretty crappy on the part of your friends... sure they're real friends?

dearViena 0

Wednesday 27 May 2009 16:35

well see... you didnt get it :] THAT was the real surprise! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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Misanthropist 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 2:58

YOU took THEM to an expensive restaurant for YOUR birthday? Forget the rest, that right there is your problem.

cheese1756 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 3:12

Your friends are jerks, they should have at least chipped in

fyl_atm_rofl 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 3:36

They should be paying for your dinner. That's how my friends and I do it.

freudianego 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 3:56

How could your friends arrange a cake before-hand if you were the one that picked the restaurant? If they ordered a cake for you while you were there, then they should at least offer to pay for it. Doesn't matter who's taking who out; its still your birthday.

Angry_Dad 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 4:04

This happened to me. But the thing is, on all my other friends' birthday, I was the one that bought their cakes, planned their surprise parties, had them at my house or payed for their bill at a place we went out to, bought them drinks and the such. BUT! Nobody wanted to pay for MY food, and two of my friends expected me to buy them food on my birthday party at Boston Pizza. FML.

trojan124 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 4:19

You took your friends out to an expensive restaurant for YOUR birthday treat? I'm assuming that means you paid for the food, not expecting the cake. If that's the case, FYL. But if you took them out to an expensive restaurant planning to pay only for yourself (or hoping someone would "treat" you), that's douchey and YDI.

ezbz11 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 4:43

if you guys had read through the post carefully, you would have realized that the person said they took their friends to the restaurant as a birthday treat. that's definitely NOT being selfish, it means the person was gracious enough to treat his or her friends to a dinner for their own birthday.

coffeennicotine 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 5:31

What kind of person pays for their friends to eat birthday dinners with them? Seriously, I wouldn't. It's YOUR birthday THEY should pay for YOU.

FMLfangirl89 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 5:37

you paid for YOUR birthday? and your friends tabs!? FYL! they should pay it for YOU! its YOUR birthday! YDI

Kitty34_fml 0

Thursday 28 May 2009 5:44

I don't understand. Why would YOU take your friends out to an expensive restaurant on YOUR birthday? Shouldn't THEY take YOU out? YDI for making this odd decision in the first place.