A woman has been left shocked after she discovered her birth certificate, which had remained untouched for years, had been vandalised by her dad. Her unwitting parent had accidentally used the vital document to write an errand note - and it could end up causing problems for his daughter.
Aspiring teacher Amber took to TikTok to share her disaster story as she explains she had located her certificate so it could be sent off to be certified to allow her to work in a foreign country, the Mirror reports. However, she was left ''speechless'' when she surprisingly found an message on the back of the document in her dad's hand writing, which read: ''Gone 4 walk 2 shop.''
Enraged after learning her certificate had been permanently defaced, Amber captioned her Tik Tok post: "If this is the reason I can’t teach abroad, I’ll be fuming."
She explained: "I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I asked my mum to get my birth certificate for me. I need to send it off to get it certified and apostilled because I'm planning on teaching abroad. So, it's all here and looks good, until you turn it around. Someone in my family has used it to write a note to say gone for walk to shop"
However, upon further investigation, she noticed that it was her dad's handwriting - who divorced from Amber's mum "years ago".
She continued: "This is my dad's handwriting, my dad used my birth certificate to let us know that he'd gone to the shop. I've got to send this off to be certified! Who uses their daughter's birth certificate to write a note like this? I'm just - I'm speechless.
"The thing is my mum and dad divorced years ago, so this has been like this for a really long time. And I've only just discovered it. I really hope that's not going to affect my application."
Users rushed to the comments to discuss the ordeal, and while some were keen to joke about the incident, others shared their hilarious tales of mistakes their dads had done. "At least he came back from the shops," one person joked.
A different user said: "My dad taped pulp fiction on top of the VHS of my birth". A third added: "very on brand for dads tbh''. Meanwhile, a fourth suggested: "You can order yourself a copy of it from the births and deaths registry or something along those lines - can’t remember what it's called."
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