December 26, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You let my dog eat that on purpose.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now you will pay by slash pay there, mister Redder
here and the figment of his imagination brought on by
his gradual slip to insanity. Welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today,
Karen is blaming me for what her dog ate. Now
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he might not survive. I was hosting a big garden
party this weekend. I invited my entire friend group plus
their partners. One of my friends takes her dog everywhere.
I told her no pets were allowed, although it was
a garden party. We were in and out of my home,
and I have four cats. My cats do not like dogs,
and neither do I. Anyway, my friend showed up with
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her dog. I told her that her dog was not
welcome in my home or my garden, and I asked
her to please take her dog home or elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
My friend left. I went inside to sort out some things.
I went into my garden about fifteen minutes later, and
my friend was standing there in my garden talking to
our friends. She doesn't live that close, so I was confused.
I went to ask her how she got back so
quickly and She told me she was just popping in
and that she was going to go home since her
dog isn't welcome. I asked her where her dog was,
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and she shrugged her shoulders and said that he was around.
I went looking and found him at the bottom of
the garden, eating my crops and making a mess. I
was angry and told my friend to get her dog
off my property. A few hours later, she called me,
asking what my dog ate. I had no clue. My
gardener plants and attends everything. I told her I didn't know,
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but I told her that he had made a huge mess,
dug things up, and clearly eaten things. She shouted at
me that her dog is sick and that I need
to find out what the dog ate. I told her
I had no idea, but I'd text the gardener to ask,
but it was really her problem. I did send the text,
but my gardener didn't answer. My friend called again, wanting
to know what her dog ate, but I told her
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I still didn't know. She told me I obviously don't
care of her dog makes it and called me a jerk.
I still don't know what her dog ate, but apparently
he's very sick and he might not make it. I
feel bad, but I told her not to bring the
dog onto my property, so I don't feel responsible, like
she says, I am am I the jerk Eta. After
being unable to reach my gardener, I took pictures of
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everything the dog dug up, which was a lot, and
sent them to my friend. But I have no idea
what he ate and what it dug up. But I
have no idea what he ate, and for all I know,
whatever he ate isn't even pictured because the whole section
is a mess. This wasn't good enough for her. She
wants me to tell her exactly what he ate, and
I just don't know and don't want to spend hours
trying to figure it out when I don't even know
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if it can be figured out. Edit too, my cats
are house cats. They don't go on my garden and
aren't at risk of getting sick from whatever my gardener
is growing. My garden is huge and what's growing changes often,
so no, I don't keep track of what's planted.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Update.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I blocked my ex friend after dozens of nasty calls
and texts, but I got an update from a mutual friend.
The dog is at the dog hospital and he's pretty sick,
but is expected to make a full recovery. I managed
to contact my gardener Eventually. It looks like the dog
ate some potatoes or something. A lot was destroyed, so
even my gardener isn't one hundred percent sure what was eaten,
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but he thinks maybe the pesticides were the problem. All
info from gardener was passed to my ex friend. X
friend has seen this post and is very angry about it.
Everyone say hi to Suzanne, not the jerk. You asked
her nicely not to bring the dog, but yet she did.
You asked her to leave, but yet she didn't. She
wasn't even watching her dog. If her dog doesn't make it,
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it's on her. I love dogs, Yes, I'm one of
those people who likes animals more than other people. People suck.
I do not like Op's friend. She's not a dog person.
A dog person would pay attention to what their dog
was doing, would never take their dog into a situation
where they're not wanted, and would never let their dog
off leash in a large garden where they don't know
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what plants are around and what could be.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Toxic to their dog.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Not the jerk, ope, I know that you'll feel bad
if the dog doesn't make it. It just did what
dogs do. Your friend is the problem. I mostly just
feel sorry for the dog having such an irresponsible parent.
Your yard wasn't dog safe, but you made it pretty
clear the dog was not welcome. Your friend ignored that,
and it's her dog who almost paid the price for it.
(04:20):
Super sad, and you're not the jerk. Your friend is
a super duper megajerk. Though she's saying you don't care
if her dogs makes it, but she ought to look
at herself.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Poor dogg O deserves better.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Am I the jerk for splashing women with water at
the pool? I'm female, thirty one, and swimming is my
hobby and how I keep healthy. My favorite swimming pool
is a local university pool. As a graduate, I have access,
but they also have community hours from when people from
the town can pay and swim. It doesn't do lane swimming,
but typically everyone knows how to stay away from those
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doing laps. I was doing laps at the far end
with the pool wall on my side, so I couldn't
move if I wanted to. I was mid session when
two women my age jumped right in front of me
and just stood there by the wall on the shallow end.
I couldn't stop in time and pushed from the wall
between them, forcing them to move aside. I was being
more careful next lap, but they just kept standing there.
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There was plenty of space on the other side of
the pool where they could stand in chat without bothering anyone,
but they chose to stand right in front of me,
so I continued swimming, pushing from the wall. If they
refused to move, I just turned in water, making sure
to make a big splash. I took a break to
drink some water and one of them started screaming at
me about how I got her hair all way. I
told her it's her fault and I continued swimming. She
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waited for me in the changing rooms and went on
about how I was inconsiderate and I ruined her hair.
I told her to buzz off. She started going off
at me and started screaming, calling me a jerk. I
grabbed my stuff and went to one of the cubicles
to have a shower and change. When I was leaving,
they were talking to the manager. One of them was
crying about their hair. I told my sister and she
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thinks I was the jerk, but I didn't think so before.
Now with my sister or green, I worry that I
might have been am I the jerk. Edit just to
add I was the only person there when they came in.
They had the whole pool to stand. They chose purposefully
to stand in front of me without swimming at all.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Edit two.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The pool is twenty five meters long, and you swim
lengthwise from deep to shallow end and back. They had
the whole shallow end wall free except for the meter
or so I used for kicking off. I didn't take
the whole shallow end. Who would do laps there? Except
for kids?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Edit three.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
While there's no designated lap lanes, lap swimming isn't forbidden.
Typically during open swim, seventy five percent of swimmers do
lap swimming. They weren't older ladies. They were about my age,
early thirties. I didn't leave the pool to grab water.
I had water on the edge along with my other
stuff for drills or my earplugs, et cetera. This is
perfectly normal and acceptable.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
If you go to a pool but don't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Want to get your hair wet, you wear a hair cap,
simple as that you already were there those two. You
had all the pool space, but chose to stand there
and get mad at you for something they could have
avoided in more than one way.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Not the jerk.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh no, my hair got wet, ma'am, this is a
pool o pie. Out of curiosity? Did you ask if
they would mind moving elsewhere so that you wouldn't accidentally
splash them? I mean, not the jerk, and anyone with
a lick of common sense and not insanely entitled would
move on their own. But you didn't mention that you
spoke to the women. Still, it's ridiculous that they're upset
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that they got wet in a pool, especially as you
were there first.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And they clearly saw you doing laps.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
How entitled were those ladies to PLoP themselves in front
of a person doing laps and then get angry that
they got splashed? And tell your sister that you are
very upset that she sided with these ladies who purposefully
blocked your laps when you were there first. Am I
the jerk for leaving my brother's kids and hanging out
with my boyfriend? My brother Derek is twenty seven and
has been married to his wife, Sophie. Not real names
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who's twenty six, for two years, and they have two kids,
a four year old son and a six month old daughter.
They never really had much money, and recently they had
to move back in with my parents. I also lived
with my parents and just finished my first year at
community college. I'm nineteen female. When my siblings moved out,
my parents gave me the master bedroom, but when Derek
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and Sophie moved in, I got moved to a smaller
room and they got the master bedroom. None of it
bothered me because they're going through a hard time. But
Sophie gave me a schedule and said that this is
the kid's daily routine. I asked what she meant, and
she said it's for when she's at work. I told
Sophie that I'm not going to watch her kids, and
I never said I was. My mom told me that
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she meant to talk to me about it, and basically,
because class is over and my parents work full time,
I should watch their kids. If Derek and Sophie asked me,
I would have said no because I work part time
in the evening and I'm really stressed. But they could
have at least asked instead of just assuming I would yesterday,
Sophie thanked me for watching her kids and left before
I could say anything. So I called my bad friend
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and told her that my brother would pay her when
he got home. I spent the entire day with my boyfriend.
I got a call from my brother yelling at me,
saying that I put his kids in danger. My friend
is getting an early childhood education degree, she does babysitting regularly,
and she's great with kids. When I got home, Derek
and Sophie yelled at me, saying that they couldn't afford
a babysitter and that I'm selfish. But I knew that
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if I just watched the kids, they would use me
like that all summer. My dad agrees with me, but
my mom says I could have just watched them. I
would like everyone to know that my friend was paid.
I would never ever let her go unpaid, but my
brother did not have the extra money to spare. My
friend also knew a little before I left the kids
with her, and now she knows everything. My mother's really
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upset with me for going away after my sister's mental breakdown.
My brother made a bunch of investments and he's in
a lot of debt. I told Sophie that she could
put them in daycare, but she didn't want to do
it because it would corrupt them. Also, my friend charged
him thirty five dollars. It would have been more, but
because I'm her friend, she gave them a discount at it.
I did this post in a rush while I was mad.
(10:05):
I'm also new to Reddit. I wanted to get the
lingo right. I was going to fix the grammar, but
now I'm not. Because if that's what you're worried about,
you miss the point. Go get the list of kids'
routines and put the cost on each of them, then
give it back to them. Since you guys assume my
work for you, here's my raids, not the jerk.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You are absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They're trying to push you into free childcare duty all
summer for kids who aren't even yours. I would not agree,
and I would let them know that you will be
out of the house all day every day, so they'd
better come up with a paid babysitter to watch their
kids or put them in actual childcare, and then make
good on your promise and go to the library or
a coffee shop every day for at least a week
or two until they find someone to watch their kids.
(10:48):
Not your responsibility. Woman wasn't expecting she would be having
a writing buddy. This malicious compliance takes place in the
Czech Republic, where many people are often really grumpy. My girlfriend,
who's thirty, and I mail twenty one, were waiting for
a bus ride to go to her hometown for a wedding.
As you'd expect, we had three bags and they were
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packed to the point where zipping the bag required you
to sit on it, especially her bag as she was
one of the bride'smaids. Before we boarded the bus, we
had to wait for the passengers who had paid beforehand
to reserve seats. My girlfriend and I had not prepaid.
We were in somewhat of a line which allowed for
the passengers who reserved seats to pass. The line for
unreserved seat passengers was essentially respected, except by this woman.
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She arrived when the line was somewhat being formed and
decided to stand next to us. As our turn aboard
was coming up. She quickly scooted in front of my
girlfriend and looked forward as if she was completely oblivious
to the fact she had done something that was traditionally
frowned upon. My girlfriend was obviously quite annoyed and started
saying out loud and English. Much of the older generation
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in this country doesn't understanding wash very well. Well, that's
a jerk thing to do. Can you believe this woman?
I was calm as I had counted how many people
had already boarded the bus, and there was still a
good chance we'd find seats together in the unreserved rows,
so I didn't think it called for any type of confrontation. Still,
I had calmly responded, let's be honest, we can't be
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surprised when jerks do jerk things. Looking back, it was unnecessary,
but I also was tired and the bags were heavy,
so I was a bit impatient. We finally sit down,
and my girlfriend chose to sit in the two free
seats behind her. I would have chosen the seats in
front of her and then just slowly reclined my seat
back every few minutes so that she wouldn't have noticed
my little act of revenge, but this ended up being better.
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It's important to note that the row this woman chose
was the last row with an overhead shelf for bags.
The shelf was a little longer in the front, so
every person essentially had space for their bag if they
moved their bags a little towards the front of the bus.
It's also important to mention that the shelf was essentially empty,
and I could have placed another five bags next to
ours if I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
We finally hit the.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Road and the woman is talking on the phone loudly,
I might add, saying how she's going to visit her grandson,
who is so sweet, but that he plays metal music
in his room and she can't stand the sound of it.
After she finishes the call, she takes off her windbreaker
and plans to put it above her seat. She finally
sees that my bag is directly above her seat, and
instead of moving her jacket thirty five centimeters to the
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right on the shelf or setting her jacket on the
empty seat beside her, she decides to confront me in
an entitled tone, excuse me, young man, but I can't
put my jacket anywhere because your fat bag is in
the way. I was bored so decided to act like
this was a tragedy. Oh no, what will we do?
Maybe if we put our heads together, we can find
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a solution. Her face turned from shock to old grandma rage.
She yelled back, well, don't you know that the shelf
space is for the person directly below the seat?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm sorry, I truly didn't know. That was like an
unspoken rule. So the space above your seat is only
for you and the potential passenger next to you, I say, truly,
acting sorry and embarrassed. Yes, yes it is, so please
move it to your spot, she says, acting victorious.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Of course right away.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I quickly get up and take my girlfriend's bag off
the shelf and place it on the seat where I
was sitting next to her. I keep my bag in
the exact same spot and PLoP myself right next to
the old woman with a grin. The look on her
face was absolutely priceless as she was trying to understand
what just happened. I smile at her, take my headphones
out and play some death metal way too loud so
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that she can definitely hear it. I might have hearing loss.
I don't even like death metal, but it was definitely
worth it. Knowing she was annoyed the whole time, My
girlfriend was sad. I didn't sit next to her for
the bus ride, but she ultimately agreed it was the
best way to get back at her ps. This is
my first post on Reddit, so I hope I chose
the right place to put it.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Am I the jerk.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I didn't include a group member's name in a group project.
I had a very difficult final assignment, which happened to
be group work. We didn't get to pick our groups
and it was all random. This assignment was worth twenty
four percent of our grades, and it mattered a lot
when it was announced that it would be group work.
One of my classmates, let's call her Anne, had a
very happy reaction to it, which is fine, but her
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reasoning was that group work assignments make her relieved because
she can always be sure her work is correct at
the end with no worries. This made me mad, since
I've worked with this girl on two other projects that
same semester, and her work was absolutely horrible. She always
finished her portion minutes before submission time, and I always
had to change it a lot because it was often incorrect.
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I even took many of her parts because I simply
couldn't trust her work. So her saying that she's relieved
that this assignment was a group project made me so mad. Unfortunately,
once the teams were announced, I ended up with her
in a group again, I think because our names are
close alphabetically, but I was fine with it since the
other two were smart students. When time came for us
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to start working on this assignment, I noticed that she
always responded to the group chat and I was happy
with her contribution until the day we worked on it came.
I sent a zoom link for all the group members
to join so we could start and finish our assignment
that day. It was short but really complicated assignment, but
this time Anne didn't respond to anything. Despite the fact
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that she agreed the day prior to the timing we picked,
she didn't join any second of the meeting. When we
finished the assignment, which took us around five to six
consecutive hours, we created a cover page and included all
of our names, including Ann's, but after we left the meeting,
I removed Anne's name and waited until everyone in my
group submitted it to completely delete the document. Around the
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same time, Anne messaged the group chat saying she was
feeling a bit sick and went to the hospital. My
other team members told her it's fine and assumed she
still had access to the document, but when she tried
looking for it, she couldn't find it and asked me
to send her a copy, which I did, but it
wasn't related to our assignment at all. Of course she
wouldn't know since she didn't contribute to it. The grades
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were released and Anne failed that course because of that assignment.
My other group members are calling me a jerk for
removing her name secretly and lying about the document, and
that she was sick and had an excuse. But I
don't believe an ounce of it. Edit. As I've said
in the comments, I should have been the bigger person
and made everything work without sabotaging. Actually, people were surprised
with what I did, since it really isn't like me
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and I'm usually a shy people pleaser. Even my friends
that I told this story too said that. But I've
been taking advantage of many times, especially academically, and I
always gave in and I took on all of the
weight myself. I'm really bad at standing up for myself
since I rarely do it, and the way I handled
this situation proves it. Since I rarely do it, I
went hard this time and didn't notice the extent. Until
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I read everyone's judgment on here, I genuinely thought I
wasn't the jerk, but now I'm viewing it in a
completely different way. I hope both Anne and I learned
from this situation and the mistakes that we made, and
I think we were both being jerks here and we
both handled the situation incorrectly. Of course, you are the jerk.
You should have at least checked with the other group members. Instead,
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you played god. You should have discussed this problem with
the instructor when the groups were announced. There may have
been a solution that didn't include underhanded lying submissions. You
have ruined your reputation with everyone that knows who will
want to work with you going forward. You're the jerk
secretly sabotaging a group member.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Nasty.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
The adult approach would have been raising it directly with
that particular group member and then the rest of the team.
It's meant to be teamwork for a reason, so that
each can learn to effectively produce within a team dynamic.
You acted unilaterally. You failed the assignment. Bruh, what's wrong
with you people on Reddit? You really think someone deserves
to get a good grade when they didn't even contribute
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to the project. Something tells me y'all were the same
ones who liked group projects because you thought you didn't
have to do anything. Calm down, now, Karen, you're talking
way too much common sense. Do you know how many
people are gonna get mad at you? I don't care
anymore of Reddit boy. You can't live your life trying
to be liked by people who don't have common sense.
Well yeah, but what if we lose subscribers, then maybe
we'll gain some who have common sense? Subscribe now if
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you're not an idiot?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yaosic? Canalsa?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Am I the jerk for telling my mother in law
that she's not allowed to meet our kids anymore? My
husband and I have two kids, five daughter and son
who's eight. After a very horrible birth with my elder one,
I decided I'm not ready to go through that again,
but we still wanted more kids, so five years ago
we adopted. My mother in law cares for our family,
but she makes her preference for Malcolm more than clear.
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To begin she was absolutely furious hearing that I would
not be having another biological kid, and was instantly disapproving
after hearing we were going to adopt. Her anger turned
into rage. She screamed about how we didn't know the
parentage of the kid and might end up bringing in
someone who would disgrace her lineage. My husband was able
to calm her down, thankfully. When she saw little Julia,
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it seemed like this was all behind us. Yesterday, mother
in law decided.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
To visit us.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
My husband was away on a train, so she was
just helping around. I was absolutely exhausted, so I asked
if I could go down for a nap, and she
was more than green. After a few hours, she woke
me up and informed me that she was about to leave.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All was good.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I was cooking in the kitchen and all of a
sudden I hear a loud bang, proceeded with a crying Julia.
When I rushed into the hall, I see Malcolm towering
over me. You're not real all of this is mine.
He started screaming, which was incredibly confusing, to say the least.
After calming them down, I asked Malcolm what he meant.
He then revealed that Grandma Muriel had told him that
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he was mommy and Daddy's real son.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
This made me incredibly mad.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I asked him what else Grandma had told him, and
he told me all about how she had been telling
him that Julia wasn't really his sister, and how he
should get extra attention for being extra special, how he's
always going to be Grandma's favorite grandson, and so much more.
Blinded with rage, I blocked Muriel on everything after sending
her a text detailing her her actions and how this
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was absolutely unacceptable, and how she had never be seen
her grandkids until they're much older and understand the situation
so they wouldn't be swayed by her words. I probably overreacted,
to be fair, she is quite an old lady. After
he returned, we got into quite the argument, to say
the least. My husband disagreed. He adores his mother and
told me that stopping her from seeing the kids is inhumane.
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She's simply old fashioned and she didn't know her words
would bring this big of an impact or some such.
We will be having a civil discussion about this later. Edit.
I'm sorry I didn't clarify this earlier, but both Julia
and Malcolm know that she's adopted. I've had this conversation
with both the kids, although I've had it separately with
both of them. I think I might have to have
this conversation once again and make sure Julia knows that
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it doesn't matter whether she's adopted or not. You have
a serious problem in your family, and you need to
get into counseling to fix it immediately before he ruins
your daughter's life. And you need to prepare for the
fact that your husband may never really love or partid
het her, and you will have to be the one
who protects her from both of them, not the jerk.
You can either support me in my decision to hold
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your mother accountable for her actions, or I will file
for divorce.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is a hard deal breaker for me.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What your mother did was unforgivable in my eyes, and
I will not allow our kids to be raised to
think they aren't really brother and sister because your ignorant
mother thinks our adopted kid is less than our biological one.
So you need to pack a bag and go stay
somewhere else because I can't even look at you right now.
I am beyond disappointed that you don't see anything wrong
with what your mother said or did, or the fact
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that your son acted like this because of it. Pull
your head out of your backside, or I will do
what I have to do to protect our kids, even
if that means ending this marriage. Not the jerk op,
I think this might just be where this goes. If
my husband doesn't agree to cut her off of our kids,
I'm done. Their mental health, happiness, and relationship with each
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other is more important than a husband who won't see
that he's actively hurting by neglecting them, more so ruining
her perception in front of his son. Thank you for
this comment. Also, it doesn't really matter whether or not
your mother in law understands what kind of impact this
could have on Julia. Her intentions honestly don't mean anything,
because no matter the intention, the outcome will be the
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same for Julia believing that she's a second class citizen.
But hey, good to know that your husband apparently cares
more about his mother's feelings than your daughter's, who is
five and could develop serious problems from this. It honestly
sounds like he expects to just have Julia suck it
up or understand that grandma is old and doesn't mean it.
But why is expecting so much emotional maturity from a
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literal five year old while expecting none from his own mother?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Am I the jerk.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
My husband says I was being ungrateful for his Mother's
Day efforts. I say that there almost.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Was no effort.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
My husband is my kids, who's eleven daughter and fourteen son, stepdad.
He's been with me since they were four and seven.
Mother's Day comes. I get up first, make coffee. Husband
gets up an hour later, and little by little, the
kids get up. By ten am, I've gone to the
gym and we're doing yard work. Fourteen year old took
his headphones off long enough to ask me when I
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was running him to a friend's graduation party. Later, at
one point, about nine, I had mentioned to him the
kids hadn't even acknowledged Mother's Day at all. He went
into eleven year old's room to tell her to make
me a card. Apparently he did get me flowers on
Friday and chocolate covered strawberries and a mini cake. I
would like to point out now that I'm diabetic, and
not only that, he has told me that my lack
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of care for my diabetes, I hadn't been maintaining my
sugar at all, trying to get on track my diet
and my weight have been making him feel completely disrespected
because it's important, his partner cared for herself. By ten am,
I was putting yard waste in a bag and he asked.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Me what was wrong. I told him that no one
had acknowledged the day at all.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
His exact words were, did you seriously need me to
actually say the words?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And it was said in a very angry tone.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Then he had gone on about how my daughter was
drawing a card as we speak now. He tried to
make the day special when he got me flowers and
the stuff I wasn't supposed to eat on Friday. Later,
I sent the fourteen year old to walk to Walgreens
to get a card for his friend's graduation party and
a Mother's Day card for his grandmother. He does not
bother to get me a card. The day before, husband
took eleven year old to the mall for something to
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do during a power outage. Didn't get me a card,
et cetera. Later, I made a comment at dinner with
my mom and brother, look my brother got me a card,
and he was upset and made a quiet reply, you
seriously needed me to get you a card?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
He says.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'm being ungrateful for their earlier efforts. I see it
as zero effort. I have also told him, point blank,
very plainly, that there are four days a year that, yes,
I expect a card Valentine's Day, Anniversary, Mother's Day, and
my Birthday. We also had this exact fight last year.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Am I really being unreasonable and ungrateful?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Am I the jerk? You're ungrateful for what? Getting flowers
two days before Mother's Day? No simple acknowledgment to wish
you a happy mother, not getting you a card when
you previously told him you expected one, Then his passive
aggressive questions.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You seriously need me to Nope, not the jerk.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Your husband is not the jerk. Put exactly the same
amount of effort and thought into Father's Day. Hand him
a dandelion on Friday before because nothing else says thinking
of you like a single dandelion. Give him something to
eat that isn't perfect for his health or his lifestyle.
Mention that he needs to watch what he eats because
it's part of his responsibility as a partner to take
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care of himself and not disrespect you by letting himself
go physically, And then the day of feel free to
ignore the whole thing completely. People like this get mad
because they put zero effort in and then get upset
when they're lazy. Zero effort day gets called out. Neighbor's
kids are demanding to use our pool. Should we just
let them? I thirty seven, mail moved into a small
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neighborhood with my fiance, who's thirty six. The neighborhood is
full of kids around the ages of nine and ten.
We found foud out that my fiance is expecting, and
we both decided on wanting a pool. I had an
above ground pool put in last year, and the neighborhood
kids were very happy. I told them no dogs were
allowed in the pool, as the lining was fragile and
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it could break.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This year, I opened the.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Pool and the kids used it while we were away.
When we got back, I noticed the water level was
low and I tried to refill it. I saw a
good sized tear on the side and got it fixed.
The kids came over the next day with the Labrador
retriever wanting to use the pool, and I told them
that the pool was closed. I came home and saw
a few of the neighbors arguing with my fiance. I
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walked over and everyone starts talking about how I hurt
their kids' feelings by not allowing them to use the pool.
I explained what happened and why I had to close
the pool. A few of them started laughing and demand
that I reopened the pool. My fiance thinks that I
should open the pool and apologize to the families, not
the jerk. Who are the neighbors to demand that you
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opened the pool? And I sure hope you strictly enforced
the no dog rule. I'm also assuming you require at
least one adult to be present at the pool at
all times. Finally preparing to take my entitled mother in
law to court, it's time for some serious payback. My partner,
thirty male, and I twenty five female, started our relationship
five years ago. When we met, I found out he
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shared a mortgage with mother in law because when her
ex left, she couldn't hold the mortgage.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Boyfriend had a good.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Job and decided to step up. We hadn't met yet,
and he was single and living there, so he didn't
think much of it, and that was his mom and
he's a wonderful son in person. I moved in with
him after seven months. I know that's pretty soon, but
there were some unforeseen events that led me to just stay,
and that's when I started to realize there was something
really off about mother in law. To give a visual
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of the house, it's a two story house with three bedrooms,
two bathrooms upstairs and one bedroom and bathroom downstairs. When
I moved in, we lived in his bedroom upstairs. All
down stairs was absolutely filled to the ceiling with junk
and boxes, almost like an episode of Hoarders, completely unlivable.
There's also a laundry room down there, and that's where
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we all did our laundry. We were finally able to
convince mother in law to get her crap out of
the way so we could move downstairs and have a
bit more privacy. There's a door leading into the living
area of the downstairs, and she would use that to
get to the laundry. We spent most of our time
in the living area and got tired of her constantly
coming through it, so I tried to talk and make
a compromise. There were two other ways to get to
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the laundry room. One way is down the outside stairs
and the laundry room door, and the other is through
the garage and through the hall. I went and bought
some curtains to set up on either side of the doors,
so she had her own special hallway she kept coming
through after agreeing to use the other ways. One day,
we replaced the doorknob with a knob with a lock
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that locked from the inside. We had locked up and
left the house for a few hours. When we got back,
we found she had taken him utter knife and forced
open the lock, something that could have easily been avoided.
When we confronted her, she got on the floor and cried,
and my boyfriend went over to comfort her.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's when I.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Realized that she manipulates him. I only asked why she
did that, and she broke down with crocodile tears. Eventually
I convinced a boyfriend to get away and we moved
into an apartment in town.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It was bliss.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I think From there he started to gain a lot
more confidence and stopped talking to mother in.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Law as much.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
This was all four years ago. After we moved out,
mother in law decided to spend a bunch of money
and renovate the downstairs and make the house into a
duplex type situation with her living in the bottom it's
separate now and she's invading no one's space. She charges
a tenant twenty two hundred dollars to live upstairs, which
pays her almost paid off mortgage and all of her bills.
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Boyfriend is still on the title and mortgage of the house.
When he was there, he was paying everything, including her
phone bill. Another thing to add. Mother in law does
not work. So fast forward to now. I'm two months
pregnant with boyfriend's baby. We're starting a family, and boyfriend
has asked to move into the upstairs so we can
have a bigger home to raise our baby in.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
She said no.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
We asked her to take his name off. Nope, she
refuses to let him live in the house. She won't
buy him out. She won't take his name off because
that would mean she can't keep the house. She cannot
keep the house without boyfriend. Her reasoning is that she
wants to save for her retirement and she needs the
four thousand plus dollars a month she makes from the
tenant alimony. She wasn't even married to the guy, disability
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from the government, and other under the table work. While
we are currently grasping its straws, my boyfriend has finally
realized that his mother doesn't give any hoots about him
or his kid, and now we are going to take
her to court. The house is worth almost seven hundred
thousand dollars. We're going to force a sale for half. Basically,
she's proved time and time again that she's a selfish,
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greedy woman who takes advantage of her son. Her other
son does not talk to her or see her, even
on holidays. We understand why.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I'm honestly just still in shock at the fact that
after everything he's done for her, she won't do the same. Also,
she has a lot of money. Edit. I don't in
any way think I'm entitled to any of this money.
I just say we out of habit because we are
just a team with things. I guess court wasn't my idea.
I try to leave any of that stuff up to
him because it isn't my house. I'm just in here
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to share this story. Don't let her handle the sale.
She'll sell it low out of spite or make a
deal for money under the table.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Okay. So let's make this real simple. I've found out
where you work.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Okay, and if you don't subscribe to the channel right
now and tick the bell for all notifications, I'm coming
to your job and I'm going to get you fired,
Okay me,
You let my dog eat that on purpose.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now you will pay by slash pay there, mister Redder
here and the figment of his imagination brought on by
his gradual slip to insanity. Welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today,
Karen is blaming me for what her dog ate. Now
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he might not survive. I was hosting a big garden
party this weekend. I invited my entire friend group plus
their partners. One of my friends takes her dog everywhere.
I told her no pets were allowed, although it was
a garden party. We were in and out of my home,
and I have four cats. My cats do not like dogs,
and neither do I. Anyway, my friend showed up with
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her dog. I told her that her dog was not
welcome in my home or my garden, and I asked
her to please take her dog home or elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
My friend left. I went inside to sort out some things.
I went into my garden about fifteen minutes later, and
my friend was standing there in my garden talking to
our friends. She doesn't live that close, so I was confused.
I went to ask her how she got back so
quickly and She told me she was just popping in
and that she was going to go home since her
dog isn't welcome. I asked her where her dog was,
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and she shrugged her shoulders and said that he was around.
I went looking and found him at the bottom of
the garden, eating my crops and making a mess. I
was angry and told my friend to get her dog
off my property. A few hours later, she called me,
asking what my dog ate. I had no clue. My
gardener plants and attends everything. I told her I didn't know,
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but I told her that he had made a huge mess,
dug things up, and clearly eaten things. She shouted at
me that her dog is sick and that I need
to find out what the dog ate. I told her
I had no idea, but I'd text the gardener to ask,
but it was really her problem. I did send the text,
but my gardener didn't answer. My friend called again, wanting
to know what her dog ate, but I told her
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I still didn't know. She told me I obviously don't
care of her dog makes it and called me a jerk.
I still don't know what her dog ate, but apparently
he's very sick and he might not make it. I
feel bad, but I told her not to bring the
dog onto my property, so I don't feel responsible, like
she says, I am am I the jerk Eta. After
being unable to reach my gardener, I took pictures of
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everything the dog dug up, which was a lot, and
sent them to my friend. But I have no idea
what he ate and what it dug up. But I
have no idea what he ate, and for all I know,
whatever he ate isn't even pictured because the whole section
is a mess. This wasn't good enough for her. She
wants me to tell her exactly what he ate, and
I just don't know and don't want to spend hours
trying to figure it out when I don't even know
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if it can be figured out. Edit too, my cats
are house cats. They don't go on my garden and
aren't at risk of getting sick from whatever my gardener
is growing. My garden is huge and what's growing changes often,
so no, I don't keep track of what's planted.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Update.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I blocked my ex friend after dozens of nasty calls
and texts, but I got an update from a mutual friend.
The dog is at the dog hospital and he's pretty sick,
but is expected to make a full recovery. I managed
to contact my gardener Eventually. It looks like the dog
ate some potatoes or something. A lot was destroyed, so
even my gardener isn't one hundred percent sure what was eaten,
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but he thinks maybe the pesticides were the problem. All
info from gardener was passed to my ex friend. X
friend has seen this post and is very angry about it.
Everyone say hi to Suzanne, not the jerk. You asked
her nicely not to bring the dog, but yet she did.
You asked her to leave, but yet she didn't. She
wasn't even watching her dog. If her dog doesn't make it,
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it's on her. I love dogs, Yes, I'm one of
those people who likes animals more than other people. People suck.
I do not like Op's friend. She's not a dog person.
A dog person would pay attention to what their dog
was doing, would never take their dog into a situation
where they're not wanted, and would never let their dog
off leash in a large garden where they don't know
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what plants are around and what could be.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Toxic to their dog.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Not the jerk, ope, I know that you'll feel bad
if the dog doesn't make it. It just did what
dogs do. Your friend is the problem. I mostly just
feel sorry for the dog having such an irresponsible parent.
Your yard wasn't dog safe, but you made it pretty
clear the dog was not welcome. Your friend ignored that,
and it's her dog who almost paid the price for it.
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Super sad, and you're not the jerk. Your friend is
a super duper megajerk. Though she's saying you don't care
if her dogs makes it, but she ought to look
at herself.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Poor dogg O deserves better.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Am I the jerk for splashing women with water at
the pool? I'm female, thirty one, and swimming is my
hobby and how I keep healthy. My favorite swimming pool
is a local university pool. As a graduate, I have access,
but they also have community hours from when people from
the town can pay and swim. It doesn't do lane swimming,
but typically everyone knows how to stay away from those
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doing laps. I was doing laps at the far end
with the pool wall on my side, so I couldn't
move if I wanted to. I was mid session when
two women my age jumped right in front of me
and just stood there by the wall on the shallow end.
I couldn't stop in time and pushed from the wall
between them, forcing them to move aside. I was being
more careful next lap, but they just kept standing there.
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There was plenty of space on the other side of
the pool where they could stand in chat without bothering anyone,
but they chose to stand right in front of me,
so I continued swimming, pushing from the wall. If they
refused to move, I just turned in water, making sure
to make a big splash. I took a break to
drink some water and one of them started screaming at
me about how I got her hair all way. I
told her it's her fault and I continued swimming. She
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waited for me in the changing rooms and went on
about how I was inconsiderate and I ruined her hair.
I told her to buzz off. She started going off
at me and started screaming, calling me a jerk. I
grabbed my stuff and went to one of the cubicles
to have a shower and change. When I was leaving,
they were talking to the manager. One of them was
crying about their hair. I told my sister and she
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thinks I was the jerk, but I didn't think so before.
Now with my sister or green, I worry that I
might have been am I the jerk. Edit just to
add I was the only person there when they came in.
They had the whole pool to stand. They chose purposefully
to stand in front of me without swimming at all.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Edit two.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The pool is twenty five meters long, and you swim
lengthwise from deep to shallow end and back. They had
the whole shallow end wall free except for the meter
or so I used for kicking off. I didn't take
the whole shallow end. Who would do laps there? Except
for kids?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Edit three.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
While there's no designated lap lanes, lap swimming isn't forbidden.
Typically during open swim, seventy five percent of swimmers do
lap swimming. They weren't older ladies. They were about my age,
early thirties. I didn't leave the pool to grab water.
I had water on the edge along with my other
stuff for drills or my earplugs, et cetera. This is
perfectly normal and acceptable.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
If you go to a pool but don't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Want to get your hair wet, you wear a hair cap,
simple as that you already were there those two. You
had all the pool space, but chose to stand there
and get mad at you for something they could have
avoided in more than one way.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Not the jerk.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh no, my hair got wet, ma'am, this is a
pool o pie. Out of curiosity? Did you ask if
they would mind moving elsewhere so that you wouldn't accidentally
splash them? I mean, not the jerk, and anyone with
a lick of common sense and not insanely entitled would
move on their own. But you didn't mention that you
spoke to the women. Still, it's ridiculous that they're upset
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that they got wet in a pool, especially as you
were there first.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And they clearly saw you doing laps.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
How entitled were those ladies to PLoP themselves in front
of a person doing laps and then get angry that
they got splashed? And tell your sister that you are
very upset that she sided with these ladies who purposefully
blocked your laps when you were there first. Am I
the jerk for leaving my brother's kids and hanging out
with my boyfriend? My brother Derek is twenty seven and
has been married to his wife, Sophie. Not real names
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who's twenty six, for two years, and they have two kids,
a four year old son and a six month old daughter.
They never really had much money, and recently they had
to move back in with my parents. I also lived
with my parents and just finished my first year at
community college. I'm nineteen female. When my siblings moved out,
my parents gave me the master bedroom, but when Derek
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and Sophie moved in, I got moved to a smaller
room and they got the master bedroom. None of it
bothered me because they're going through a hard time. But
Sophie gave me a schedule and said that this is
the kid's daily routine. I asked what she meant, and
she said it's for when she's at work. I told
Sophie that I'm not going to watch her kids, and
I never said I was. My mom told me that
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she meant to talk to me about it, and basically,
because class is over and my parents work full time,
I should watch their kids. If Derek and Sophie asked me,
I would have said no because I work part time
in the evening and I'm really stressed. But they could
have at least asked instead of just assuming I would yesterday,
Sophie thanked me for watching her kids and left before
I could say anything. So I called my bad friend
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and told her that my brother would pay her when
he got home. I spent the entire day with my boyfriend.
I got a call from my brother yelling at me,
saying that I put his kids in danger. My friend
is getting an early childhood education degree, she does babysitting regularly,
and she's great with kids. When I got home, Derek
and Sophie yelled at me, saying that they couldn't afford
a babysitter and that I'm selfish. But I knew that
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if I just watched the kids, they would use me
like that all summer. My dad agrees with me, but
my mom says I could have just watched them. I
would like everyone to know that my friend was paid.
I would never ever let her go unpaid, but my
brother did not have the extra money to spare. My
friend also knew a little before I left the kids
with her, and now she knows everything. My mother's really
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upset with me for going away after my sister's mental breakdown.
My brother made a bunch of investments and he's in
a lot of debt. I told Sophie that she could
put them in daycare, but she didn't want to do
it because it would corrupt them. Also, my friend charged
him thirty five dollars. It would have been more, but
because I'm her friend, she gave them a discount at it.
I did this post in a rush while I was mad.
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I'm also new to Reddit. I wanted to get the
lingo right. I was going to fix the grammar, but
now I'm not. Because if that's what you're worried about,
you miss the point. Go get the list of kids'
routines and put the cost on each of them, then
give it back to them. Since you guys assume my
work for you, here's my raids, not the jerk.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You are absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They're trying to push you into free childcare duty all
summer for kids who aren't even yours. I would not agree,
and I would let them know that you will be
out of the house all day every day, so they'd
better come up with a paid babysitter to watch their
kids or put them in actual childcare, and then make
good on your promise and go to the library or
a coffee shop every day for at least a week
or two until they find someone to watch their kids.
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Not your responsibility. Woman wasn't expecting she would be having
a writing buddy. This malicious compliance takes place in the
Czech Republic, where many people are often really grumpy. My girlfriend,
who's thirty, and I mail twenty one, were waiting for
a bus ride to go to her hometown for a wedding.
As you'd expect, we had three bags and they were
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packed to the point where zipping the bag required you
to sit on it, especially her bag as she was
one of the bride'smaids. Before we boarded the bus, we
had to wait for the passengers who had paid beforehand
to reserve seats. My girlfriend and I had not prepaid.
We were in somewhat of a line which allowed for
the passengers who reserved seats to pass. The line for
unreserved seat passengers was essentially respected, except by this woman.
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She arrived when the line was somewhat being formed and
decided to stand next to us. As our turn aboard
was coming up. She quickly scooted in front of my
girlfriend and looked forward as if she was completely oblivious
to the fact she had done something that was traditionally
frowned upon. My girlfriend was obviously quite annoyed and started
saying out loud and English. Much of the older generation
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in this country doesn't understanding wash very well. Well, that's
a jerk thing to do. Can you believe this woman?
I was calm as I had counted how many people
had already boarded the bus, and there was still a
good chance we'd find seats together in the unreserved rows,
so I didn't think it called for any type of confrontation. Still,
I had calmly responded, let's be honest, we can't be
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surprised when jerks do jerk things. Looking back, it was unnecessary,
but I also was tired and the bags were heavy,
so I was a bit impatient. We finally sit down,
and my girlfriend chose to sit in the two free
seats behind her. I would have chosen the seats in
front of her and then just slowly reclined my seat
back every few minutes so that she wouldn't have noticed
my little act of revenge, but this ended up being better.
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It's important to note that the row this woman chose
was the last row with an overhead shelf for bags.
The shelf was a little longer in the front, so
every person essentially had space for their bag if they
moved their bags a little towards the front of the bus.
It's also important to mention that the shelf was essentially empty,
and I could have placed another five bags next to
ours if I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
We finally hit the.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Road and the woman is talking on the phone loudly,
I might add, saying how she's going to visit her grandson,
who is so sweet, but that he plays metal music
in his room and she can't stand the sound of it.
After she finishes the call, she takes off her windbreaker
and plans to put it above her seat. She finally
sees that my bag is directly above her seat, and
instead of moving her jacket thirty five centimeters to the
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right on the shelf or setting her jacket on the
empty seat beside her, she decides to confront me in
an entitled tone, excuse me, young man, but I can't
put my jacket anywhere because your fat bag is in
the way. I was bored so decided to act like
this was a tragedy. Oh no, what will we do?
Maybe if we put our heads together, we can find
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a solution. Her face turned from shock to old grandma rage.
She yelled back, well, don't you know that the shelf
space is for the person directly below the seat?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm sorry, I truly didn't know. That was like an
unspoken rule. So the space above your seat is only
for you and the potential passenger next to you, I say, truly,
acting sorry and embarrassed. Yes, yes it is, so please
move it to your spot, she says, acting victorious.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Of course right away.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I quickly get up and take my girlfriend's bag off
the shelf and place it on the seat where I
was sitting next to her. I keep my bag in
the exact same spot and PLoP myself right next to
the old woman with a grin. The look on her
face was absolutely priceless as she was trying to understand
what just happened. I smile at her, take my headphones
out and play some death metal way too loud so
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that she can definitely hear it. I might have hearing loss.
I don't even like death metal, but it was definitely
worth it. Knowing she was annoyed the whole time, My
girlfriend was sad. I didn't sit next to her for
the bus ride, but she ultimately agreed it was the
best way to get back at her ps. This is
my first post on Reddit, so I hope I chose
the right place to put it.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Am I the jerk.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I didn't include a group member's name in a group project.
I had a very difficult final assignment, which happened to
be group work. We didn't get to pick our groups
and it was all random. This assignment was worth twenty
four percent of our grades, and it mattered a lot
when it was announced that it would be group work.
One of my classmates, let's call her Anne, had a
very happy reaction to it, which is fine, but her
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reasoning was that group work assignments make her relieved because
she can always be sure her work is correct at
the end with no worries. This made me mad, since
I've worked with this girl on two other projects that
same semester, and her work was absolutely horrible. She always
finished her portion minutes before submission time, and I always
had to change it a lot because it was often incorrect.
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I even took many of her parts because I simply
couldn't trust her work. So her saying that she's relieved
that this assignment was a group project made me so mad. Unfortunately,
once the teams were announced, I ended up with her
in a group again, I think because our names are
close alphabetically, but I was fine with it since the
other two were smart students. When time came for us
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to start working on this assignment, I noticed that she
always responded to the group chat and I was happy
with her contribution until the day we worked on it came.
I sent a zoom link for all the group members
to join so we could start and finish our assignment
that day. It was short but really complicated assignment, but
this time Anne didn't respond to anything. Despite the fact
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that she agreed the day prior to the timing we picked,
she didn't join any second of the meeting. When we
finished the assignment, which took us around five to six
consecutive hours, we created a cover page and included all
of our names, including Ann's, but after we left the meeting,
I removed Anne's name and waited until everyone in my
group submitted it to completely delete the document. Around the
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same time, Anne messaged the group chat saying she was
feeling a bit sick and went to the hospital. My
other team members told her it's fine and assumed she
still had access to the document, but when she tried
looking for it, she couldn't find it and asked me
to send her a copy, which I did, but it
wasn't related to our assignment at all. Of course she
wouldn't know since she didn't contribute to it. The grades
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were released and Anne failed that course because of that assignment.
My other group members are calling me a jerk for
removing her name secretly and lying about the document, and
that she was sick and had an excuse. But I
don't believe an ounce of it. Edit. As I've said
in the comments, I should have been the bigger person
and made everything work without sabotaging. Actually, people were surprised
with what I did, since it really isn't like me
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and I'm usually a shy people pleaser. Even my friends
that I told this story too said that. But I've
been taking advantage of many times, especially academically, and I
always gave in and I took on all of the
weight myself. I'm really bad at standing up for myself
since I rarely do it, and the way I handled
this situation proves it. Since I rarely do it, I
went hard this time and didn't notice the extent. Until
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I read everyone's judgment on here, I genuinely thought I
wasn't the jerk, but now I'm viewing it in a
completely different way. I hope both Anne and I learned
from this situation and the mistakes that we made, and
I think we were both being jerks here and we
both handled the situation incorrectly. Of course, you are the jerk.
You should have at least checked with the other group members. Instead,
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you played god. You should have discussed this problem with
the instructor when the groups were announced. There may have
been a solution that didn't include underhanded lying submissions. You
have ruined your reputation with everyone that knows who will
want to work with you going forward. You're the jerk
secretly sabotaging a group member.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Nasty.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
The adult approach would have been raising it directly with
that particular group member and then the rest of the team.
It's meant to be teamwork for a reason, so that
each can learn to effectively produce within a team dynamic.
You acted unilaterally. You failed the assignment. Bruh, what's wrong
with you people on Reddit? You really think someone deserves
to get a good grade when they didn't even contribute
(18:42):
to the project. Something tells me y'all were the same
ones who liked group projects because you thought you didn't
have to do anything. Calm down, now, Karen, you're talking
way too much common sense. Do you know how many
people are gonna get mad at you? I don't care
anymore of Reddit boy. You can't live your life trying
to be liked by people who don't have common sense.
Well yeah, but what if we lose subscribers, then maybe
we'll gain some who have common sense? Subscribe now if
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you're not an idiot?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yaosic? Canalsa?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Am I the jerk for telling my mother in law
that she's not allowed to meet our kids anymore? My
husband and I have two kids, five daughter and son
who's eight. After a very horrible birth with my elder one,
I decided I'm not ready to go through that again,
but we still wanted more kids, so five years ago
we adopted. My mother in law cares for our family,
but she makes her preference for Malcolm more than clear.
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To begin she was absolutely furious hearing that I would
not be having another biological kid, and was instantly disapproving
after hearing we were going to adopt. Her anger turned
into rage. She screamed about how we didn't know the
parentage of the kid and might end up bringing in
someone who would disgrace her lineage. My husband was able
to calm her down, thankfully. When she saw little Julia,
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it seemed like this was all behind us. Yesterday, mother
in law decided.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
To visit us.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
My husband was away on a train, so she was
just helping around. I was absolutely exhausted, so I asked
if I could go down for a nap, and she
was more than green. After a few hours, she woke
me up and informed me that she was about to leave.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All was good.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I was cooking in the kitchen and all of a
sudden I hear a loud bang, proceeded with a crying Julia.
When I rushed into the hall, I see Malcolm towering
over me. You're not real all of this is mine.
He started screaming, which was incredibly confusing, to say the least.
After calming them down, I asked Malcolm what he meant.
He then revealed that Grandma Muriel had told him that
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he was mommy and Daddy's real son.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
This made me incredibly mad.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I asked him what else Grandma had told him, and
he told me all about how she had been telling
him that Julia wasn't really his sister, and how he
should get extra attention for being extra special, how he's
always going to be Grandma's favorite grandson, and so much more.
Blinded with rage, I blocked Muriel on everything after sending
her a text detailing her her actions and how this
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was absolutely unacceptable, and how she had never be seen
her grandkids until they're much older and understand the situation
so they wouldn't be swayed by her words. I probably overreacted,
to be fair, she is quite an old lady. After
he returned, we got into quite the argument, to say
the least. My husband disagreed. He adores his mother and
told me that stopping her from seeing the kids is inhumane.
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She's simply old fashioned and she didn't know her words
would bring this big of an impact or some such.
We will be having a civil discussion about this later. Edit.
I'm sorry I didn't clarify this earlier, but both Julia
and Malcolm know that she's adopted. I've had this conversation
with both the kids, although I've had it separately with
both of them. I think I might have to have
this conversation once again and make sure Julia knows that
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it doesn't matter whether she's adopted or not. You have
a serious problem in your family, and you need to
get into counseling to fix it immediately before he ruins
your daughter's life. And you need to prepare for the
fact that your husband may never really love or partid
het her, and you will have to be the one
who protects her from both of them, not the jerk.
You can either support me in my decision to hold
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your mother accountable for her actions, or I will file
for divorce.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is a hard deal breaker for me.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What your mother did was unforgivable in my eyes, and
I will not allow our kids to be raised to
think they aren't really brother and sister because your ignorant
mother thinks our adopted kid is less than our biological one.
So you need to pack a bag and go stay
somewhere else because I can't even look at you right now.
I am beyond disappointed that you don't see anything wrong
with what your mother said or did, or the fact
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that your son acted like this because of it. Pull
your head out of your backside, or I will do
what I have to do to protect our kids, even
if that means ending this marriage. Not the jerk op,
I think this might just be where this goes. If
my husband doesn't agree to cut her off of our kids,
I'm done. Their mental health, happiness, and relationship with each
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other is more important than a husband who won't see
that he's actively hurting by neglecting them, more so ruining
her perception in front of his son. Thank you for
this comment. Also, it doesn't really matter whether or not
your mother in law understands what kind of impact this
could have on Julia. Her intentions honestly don't mean anything,
because no matter the intention, the outcome will be the
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same for Julia believing that she's a second class citizen.
But hey, good to know that your husband apparently cares
more about his mother's feelings than your daughter's, who is
five and could develop serious problems from this. It honestly
sounds like he expects to just have Julia suck it
up or understand that grandma is old and doesn't mean it.
But why is expecting so much emotional maturity from a
(23:36):
literal five year old while expecting none from his own mother?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Am I the jerk.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
My husband says I was being ungrateful for his Mother's
Day efforts. I say that there almost.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Was no effort.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
My husband is my kids, who's eleven daughter and fourteen son, stepdad.
He's been with me since they were four and seven.
Mother's Day comes. I get up first, make coffee. Husband
gets up an hour later, and little by little, the
kids get up. By ten am, I've gone to the
gym and we're doing yard work. Fourteen year old took
his headphones off long enough to ask me when I
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was running him to a friend's graduation party. Later, at
one point, about nine, I had mentioned to him the
kids hadn't even acknowledged Mother's Day at all. He went
into eleven year old's room to tell her to make
me a card. Apparently he did get me flowers on
Friday and chocolate covered strawberries and a mini cake. I
would like to point out now that I'm diabetic, and
not only that, he has told me that my lack
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of care for my diabetes, I hadn't been maintaining my
sugar at all, trying to get on track my diet
and my weight have been making him feel completely disrespected
because it's important, his partner cared for herself. By ten am,
I was putting yard waste in a bag and he asked.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Me what was wrong. I told him that no one
had acknowledged the day at all.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
His exact words were, did you seriously need me to
actually say the words?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And it was said in a very angry tone.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Then he had gone on about how my daughter was
drawing a card as we speak now. He tried to
make the day special when he got me flowers and
the stuff I wasn't supposed to eat on Friday. Later,
I sent the fourteen year old to walk to Walgreens
to get a card for his friend's graduation party and
a Mother's Day card for his grandmother. He does not
bother to get me a card. The day before, husband
took eleven year old to the mall for something to
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do during a power outage. Didn't get me a card,
et cetera. Later, I made a comment at dinner with
my mom and brother, look my brother got me a card,
and he was upset and made a quiet reply, you
seriously needed me to get you a card?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
He says.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'm being ungrateful for their earlier efforts. I see it
as zero effort. I have also told him, point blank,
very plainly, that there are four days a year that, yes,
I expect a card Valentine's Day, Anniversary, Mother's Day, and
my Birthday. We also had this exact fight last year.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Am I really being unreasonable and ungrateful?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Am I the jerk? You're ungrateful for what? Getting flowers
two days before Mother's Day? No simple acknowledgment to wish
you a happy mother, not getting you a card when
you previously told him you expected one, Then his passive
aggressive questions.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You seriously need me to Nope, not the jerk.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Your husband is not the jerk. Put exactly the same
amount of effort and thought into Father's Day. Hand him
a dandelion on Friday before because nothing else says thinking
of you like a single dandelion. Give him something to
eat that isn't perfect for his health or his lifestyle.
Mention that he needs to watch what he eats because
it's part of his responsibility as a partner to take
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care of himself and not disrespect you by letting himself
go physically, And then the day of feel free to
ignore the whole thing completely. People like this get mad
because they put zero effort in and then get upset
when they're lazy. Zero effort day gets called out. Neighbor's
kids are demanding to use our pool. Should we just
let them? I thirty seven, mail moved into a small
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neighborhood with my fiance, who's thirty six. The neighborhood is
full of kids around the ages of nine and ten.
We found foud out that my fiance is expecting, and
we both decided on wanting a pool. I had an
above ground pool put in last year, and the neighborhood
kids were very happy. I told them no dogs were
allowed in the pool, as the lining was fragile and
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it could break.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This year, I opened the.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Pool and the kids used it while we were away.
When we got back, I noticed the water level was
low and I tried to refill it. I saw a
good sized tear on the side and got it fixed.
The kids came over the next day with the Labrador
retriever wanting to use the pool, and I told them
that the pool was closed. I came home and saw
a few of the neighbors arguing with my fiance. I
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walked over and everyone starts talking about how I hurt
their kids' feelings by not allowing them to use the pool.
I explained what happened and why I had to close
the pool. A few of them started laughing and demand
that I reopened the pool. My fiance thinks that I
should open the pool and apologize to the families, not
the jerk. Who are the neighbors to demand that you
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opened the pool? And I sure hope you strictly enforced
the no dog rule. I'm also assuming you require at
least one adult to be present at the pool at
all times. Finally preparing to take my entitled mother in
law to court, it's time for some serious payback. My partner,
thirty male, and I twenty five female, started our relationship
five years ago. When we met, I found out he
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shared a mortgage with mother in law because when her
ex left, she couldn't hold the mortgage.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Boyfriend had a good.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Job and decided to step up. We hadn't met yet,
and he was single and living there, so he didn't
think much of it, and that was his mom and
he's a wonderful son in person. I moved in with
him after seven months. I know that's pretty soon, but
there were some unforeseen events that led me to just stay,
and that's when I started to realize there was something
really off about mother in law. To give a visual
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of the house, it's a two story house with three bedrooms,
two bathrooms upstairs and one bedroom and bathroom downstairs. When
I moved in, we lived in his bedroom upstairs. All
down stairs was absolutely filled to the ceiling with junk
and boxes, almost like an episode of Hoarders, completely unlivable.
There's also a laundry room down there, and that's where
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we all did our laundry. We were finally able to
convince mother in law to get her crap out of
the way so we could move downstairs and have a
bit more privacy. There's a door leading into the living
area of the downstairs, and she would use that to
get to the laundry. We spent most of our time
in the living area and got tired of her constantly
coming through it, so I tried to talk and make
a compromise. There were two other ways to get to
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the laundry room. One way is down the outside stairs
and the laundry room door, and the other is through
the garage and through the hall. I went and bought
some curtains to set up on either side of the doors,
so she had her own special hallway she kept coming
through after agreeing to use the other ways. One day,
we replaced the doorknob with a knob with a lock
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that locked from the inside. We had locked up and
left the house for a few hours. When we got back,
we found she had taken him utter knife and forced
open the lock, something that could have easily been avoided.
When we confronted her, she got on the floor and cried,
and my boyfriend went over to comfort her.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's when I.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Realized that she manipulates him. I only asked why she
did that, and she broke down with crocodile tears. Eventually
I convinced a boyfriend to get away and we moved
into an apartment in town.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It was bliss.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I think From there he started to gain a lot
more confidence and stopped talking to mother in.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Law as much.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
This was all four years ago. After we moved out,
mother in law decided to spend a bunch of money
and renovate the downstairs and make the house into a
duplex type situation with her living in the bottom it's
separate now and she's invading no one's space. She charges
a tenant twenty two hundred dollars to live upstairs, which
pays her almost paid off mortgage and all of her bills.
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Boyfriend is still on the title and mortgage of the house.
When he was there, he was paying everything, including her
phone bill. Another thing to add. Mother in law does
not work. So fast forward to now. I'm two months
pregnant with boyfriend's baby. We're starting a family, and boyfriend
has asked to move into the upstairs so we can
have a bigger home to raise our baby in.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
She said no.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
We asked her to take his name off. Nope, she
refuses to let him live in the house. She won't
buy him out. She won't take his name off because
that would mean she can't keep the house. She cannot
keep the house without boyfriend. Her reasoning is that she
wants to save for her retirement and she needs the
four thousand plus dollars a month she makes from the
tenant alimony. She wasn't even married to the guy, disability
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from the government, and other under the table work. While
we are currently grasping its straws, my boyfriend has finally
realized that his mother doesn't give any hoots about him
or his kid, and now we are going to take
her to court. The house is worth almost seven hundred
thousand dollars. We're going to force a sale for half. Basically,
she's proved time and time again that she's a selfish,
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greedy woman who takes advantage of her son. Her other
son does not talk to her or see her, even
on holidays. We understand why.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I'm honestly just still in shock at the fact that
after everything he's done for her, she won't do the same. Also,
she has a lot of money. Edit. I don't in
any way think I'm entitled to any of this money.
I just say we out of habit because we are
just a team with things. I guess court wasn't my idea.
I try to leave any of that stuff up to
him because it isn't my house. I'm just in here
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to share this story. Don't let her handle the sale.
She'll sell it low out of spite or make a
deal for money under the table.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Okay. So let's make this real simple. I've found out
where you work.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Okay, and if you don't subscribe to the channel right
now and tick the bell for all notifications, I'm coming
to your job and I'm going to get you fired,
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