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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 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 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 ribbonsundone - 06/01/2010 10:07 - United States

Today, I treated my friends to lunch at a posh restaurant because it's my birthday. While we were walking leisurely around the mall afterwards, their boyfriends showed up. I spent the next few hours walking alone behind them while they were walking hand in hand with their boyfriends. 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 - 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 IgiveUp - 28/05/2021 06:01

Today, I went out to eat with my friends. When the bill came, all three of them had "inconveniently" forgot their wallets at home. I ended up having to pay. It was a $178 check. 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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You forgetting something?

By Anonymous - 22/05/2022 20:00 - United States - North Miami Beach

Today, it was my birthday. My family usually gives me a financial gift, but didn't this time and said nothing about it. I cooked my own birthday dinner without help, then washed everyone's dishes. I got my own cake and ate it alone because they were too busy getting drunk. Nobody bothered to sing Happy Birthday either. 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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Acousticpixie14 6

Saturday 15 January 2011 19:35

I woulda got up and left them there with the check. That's so rude. Get some new friends and don't be such a pushover.

rockyraccoon28 8

Saturday 15 January 2011 19:35

should've said "frick no, I'm not paying."

Comments

tom_es 3

Saturday 15 January 2011 22:26

people treat you like you allow them to.

Sammara 0

Saturday 15 January 2011 22:29

They expected you to pay for all of them?? After they were the ones saying "Order whatever you want; this is a celebration!?" Your friends suck. Get new ones.

sallen0046 4

Saturday 15 January 2011 23:00

I don't understand why you paid for it in the first place. Now I have several friends who's parents give them money specifically for everyone to go out to a birthday dinner, but we always ask before we even get to the restaurant if they want to use the money for the dinner or keep it to buy themselves a gift. This was obviously not the case here. You really should have made sure they were buying you dinner before everyone ordered, but you absolutely should not have payed for everyone.

zowieandzander77 1

Saturday 15 January 2011 23:06

Um it was only 150 for you and all your friends... Where did you go mcdonalds? Or do you only have one friend.

Lawlipop 3

Monday 17 January 2011 4:56

She said "with friends", not "with all my friends" or "everyone I've ever said hi to". I know a few awesome places to have dinner where $150 would get about five people nice dinners and a drink or two.

grimshaw9 3

Saturday 15 January 2011 23:09

coward.. I woulda payed for my meal flipped my "friends" the bird and walked outta there.

RHCP12 0

Saturday 15 January 2011 23:25

I would have excused myself to the bathroom...and never go back to the table....

brighteyes81 0

Saturday 15 January 2011 23:26

epic

carlito1234 0

Saturday 15 January 2011 23:26

Ok I created account here just so I can comment on this topic. You americans are one cheap ass ******* nation! It's your ******* birthday! Where I come from (Croatia btw, we have lower income than you) we treat our friends for our birthday. I have never spent under 100$ for my birthday on paying drinks and food for my friends, and that is a custom for us. Sucks to be an american I guess. And for all the other comments, you are all a bunch of cheap *******, I wouldn't be your friend if you payed me.

grimshaw9 3

Sunday 16 January 2011 0:41

well sorry for being from a different country then you. why would we care how you do it in yours? in our country we are honored on our days of birth with gifts and what not which we do back to others on their birthday.

Zebidee 8

Sunday 16 January 2011 1:02

Customs are different in different places - no need to rant.

rebecca_k 0

Sunday 16 January 2011 1:06

jeewiz no need to rant buddy. and I know from personal experience: Croatia ain't much diff to America or aus customs. duh. that's why this is a fml

Mikki4321 0

Wednesday 26 January 2011 20:11

#71 Thank God, because we rather wouldn't be friends with you either. I wouldn't want friends who expect me to spend over €100 (that's right, European as well) on their food, just because it's my birthday. Nothing cheap about that, it's just common sense, why spend that much on food or whatever, if you can all chip in and have the same meal, without one person having to take a huge amount of money they could've used for the rest of the month.