By countrygirl0118 - 17/12/2009 22:30 - United States

Today, my boyfriend's mother called me. She assumed that I bought him a PS3 for Christmas, and she and the rest of his family have only purchased him games to go with it. The thing is, I already got him an expensive gift. Now, I have to scramble to come up with the money to get this for him instead, and save the coat I bought for his birthday. FML
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countrygirl0118 tells us more.

HI AGAIN I'M THE OP! first off the coat is nonrefundable, and I got him it because we do live in a harsh area and he has to walk to work wearing a million sweatshirts at the moment. second, no he doesn't live with his folks, we live together so in a way it would be for me too but i thought the coat had a more pressing need. third, i had discussed with his sister and his brother in-law that no, i was not getting him a PS3 until his birthday because blistering cold takes precedence over playing games. AND i had said if you really want to get him a game that's fine, but he won't be able to use it til February. THEN his mother called me, and told me about them all buying him games. I said to her on the phone, "I've already bought him a nice coat and was waiting til his birthday for the game system." She then said, "Oh, well I knew that, but we knew you'd probably want to get him the system too since we've all bought him games." One game is okay, but everyone buying him a game makes it look ridiculous and then he'll have all these games and not be able to use them for 2 months. ALSO i don't want to fight with his mother. This is the first Christmas I'm spending with them and on top of it his dad has bone marrow cancer and lymphoma and has chosen to stop his chemotherapy treatments, so this may be the last Christmas they all have as a family. So I'm not going to cause a fight. FINALLY, all you who commented calling me spineless, maybe you should learn to reserve comments like that considering that sometimes you cannot fit all of the story into the text space provided. But I guess your bad behavior must be a product of your upbringing. Very poor manners. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

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JERKKMONKEY 0

dude who does she think she is 'assuming' you got him a ps3. FYL

greatnt249 0

Seems like the simpler solution would have been to, you know, set her straight on the fact that you hadn't bought him a PS3. Either that, or your boyfriend's mom is scheming you to save them from having to buy the PS3 themselves.

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YDI for not setting her straight. That's why you ******* speak up.

'Now, I have to scramble to come up with the money to get this for him instead, and save the coat I bought for his birthday. FML' no you don't, you just have to scramble to come up with the guts to tell his mom to stop being such a bigheaded jerk for assuming that you'd buy him a PS3. unless, of course, you let it slip that you had bought it, in which case it would be your fault entirely, but since there is no indication in the FML of you doing so, i won't say anything more

edeielia 0

I agree with the majority...Screw mom and give him the jacket. Unless you had told everyone that you were getting him the PS3, then make his family (or him, for that matter) buy it themselves. WTF?!

misterman2 3

Why don't you just tell her you didn't get a ps3?

Wow. They should have confirmed it with you, first. You know, since they didn't, you could always leave it for them to sort it out. After all, it's not YOUR fault they made baseless assumptions!

Although I would have liked the PS3 more then the coat, stick with the coat. if the guy already has a game station like xbox or wii then he should be content. If he doesn't then save the coat for later time and ask the family to pitch in on a ps3 fund like a previous comment already said.

Return the coat and try to find a ps3?

nonynony 0

They're either idiots for assuming this or geniuses for planning it and knowing you'd cave.

Return the coat and put the money toward the PS3.

That is exactly what I was thinking. Did you buy it at a swap meet or something?