Karen Thinks She's An ACTUAL PRINCESS... GETS TAUGHT A LESSON! - Reddit Stories - Reddit Stories Podcast - Mr. Redder

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister Redder here, welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today.
My wife thinks she's an actual princess. I gave her
a reality check. After that, am I the jerk for
locking my sister and her brats out of my room?
And after that? Sister loves to roast my husband and
he expects me to defend him. Now, for every thumbs up,

(00:22):
this video gets one, Karen does not get to act
like a princess. But I thought I was your queen,
Reddit bull, So please smash that like button and subscribe
and turn on notifications for new stories from Reddit every
single day. My wife thinks she's an actual princess. I
gave her a reality check. For the past several months,

(00:45):
my wife has been acting eerily like a kid. I
understand that she's playing with our daughter, but it comes
across as weird to me to the degree that she
plays the role. Our daughter wanted a mini pizza, and
so she asked me if i'd make her one. I
was then, and my wife said me too, I'm a
princess too. I told her, no, you're an adult, not

(01:07):
a princess. I'll make you one, but you're an adult.
She laughed nervously and said, okay, never mind. Our daughter
heard and said, dad, mom is a princess too. I
just said mm hmm, agreeing, but I didn't want to
have to explain it to her. I did feel bad
because my wife changed out of her princess clothes too,

(01:28):
But I don't know whether this whole ordeal makes me
the jerk. You're the jerk. They're just having fun playing together.
Why don't you call yourself a prince and join in?
I bet your daughter would love that. Also, princesses can
be adults. They don't automatically become queens when they get older.
If you look at a list of current princesses in
the UK, there's one that's eighty six years old. Not

(01:51):
the jerk. Your wife is delusional if she thinks she's
a princess, but it could be mental health related. Does
she have a therapist that she sees regularly? Sometimes adults
can act out imaginary roles as a coping mechanism for
past issues. I definitely see about getting her something that
can help control this sort of thing, but only a
doctor can tell you what she really needs. You're the jerk.

(02:13):
Kids were playing Pirate one day and wanted us to
play too, so we did for an entire evening. We
had a lot of playtime like that impromptu candlelight dinners
when they played dress up burping contests. Yes, gross, but silly.
Some of our best family memories. Kids are experts and
how to have fun. Let them help you remember how
to laugh, not the jerk. All of these people claiming

(02:36):
how important it is that you played dress up with
your kids have no idea what they're talking about. That's
how you create entitled kids who literally think their princes
and princesses. My parents never did any of that crap
with me, and as a result, I'm a normal, functioning
human being who never felt entitled to anything. I have
three kids myself now, and I would never do any
of that stuff with them. If they want to have fun,

(02:58):
we have educational games there can play. My youngest is
particularly fond of Elmo, so just about every day she
plays Elmo's reading in Elmo's Numbers. My oldest to both
try to watch that Coco Melon crap, and my wife
would try to let them. That's when I had to
lay down the law and I straight up told her
that if I caught them watching Coco Melon one more time,

(03:18):
I'd divorce her in a heartbeat and get full custody.
I'm a lawyer who deals with custody cases every day.
She knows she wouldn't stand a chance. Guess what, Since then,
I've never seen them watching that crap again. I'll be
darned if I'm going to let my kids watch this
new trash that's literally designed to rot their brains so
they'll grow into non functioning NPC adults the way the

(03:39):
politicians want them to be. Edit. Oh, you let your
kids watch Coco Melon all day and you think that
makes it okay. Let's see where your kids are at
in life twenty years from now compared to mine, You suckers.
Am I the jerk for locking my sister and her
brats out of my room. To make a long story short,
my sister, who's thirty two and I twenty six female

(04:02):
ended up moving back home at the same time due
to lockdown. I'm work from home, and she lost her
job because she has three kids. She made a big
stink to keep the entire second floor to her and
her kids. I got stuck with the creepy musky basement
because of her only it turned out to be a dream.
I'm very introverted, and nobody wanted to go down to

(04:23):
the creepy, unfinished, spider infested basement, so it worked. I
spent every month since trying to finish the basement. I
finished the floor with epoxy, fixed the water heater on
my own dime, got a split unit for heating and
cooling exterminated. Then I installed some nice track lighting, got
a mini fridge and foosball table. Now it's my own

(04:43):
personal clubhouse until recently, when I noticed someone was stealing
my energy drinks and messing with my game consoles. Nobody confessed,
so I bought a lock and a key for both doors,
gave my dad the only spare it's his house, and
locked up on Thursday so I could go to an
office meeting. That's when we found out it was my
nephew because he left his stuffed toy in there and

(05:06):
apparently whined all day until my dad got home and
led him in. Now my sister is raising heck about
how I shouldn't get so much space to myself since
I don't have kids, that I don't pay enough rent
to justify it that nothing in this arrangement is fair,
and she's demanding that I leave the space open as
a family room. That was not the arrangement though. The
basement is my room and I'm the one who spent

(05:28):
all that time and money fixing it. Nobody wanted to
be there until I was finished with it. Things got heated,
and I called her kid a filthy brat because he is.
He gets mud everywhere, never washes his hands, and he's
broken just about every console she's ever gotten the kids,
And now she wants me kicked out of the house.
Am I the jerk? Quick update? So, after we all

(05:50):
cooled down, I did talk to my father. He said
he has zero interest in letting the kids go down there.
When my sister tried to protest, he pointed out to
her that the place is still not say for kids.
There are still rat traps exposed wood. He pointed out
that she herself kept screaming about their being mold. There isn't,
so he doesn't want any of the kids going in there,

(06:11):
and unless she's willing to pay for an inspector to
check she's not, she has no say. So that shut
her up really quick. Then she got into it with
me for the filthy brat comment, and I was about
to apologize because I was heated. It was messed up.
Only dad hopped in at that moment and chose to
have a serious conversation with her about the youngest not

(06:32):
washing his hands. He apparently ruined several leftovers in the
fridge last week and slimed the butter. I don't know.
I don't want to know which my dad did want
to bring up anyway, because the kid has a problem
and won't bathe. But I stepped out at that point
because it sounded like he was mad. Very few things
make my dad mad. Then having to throw away perfectly

(06:53):
good food. It's one of his triggers. So everything is
shaping in my way for now. Not you had an arrangement.
She got the second floor, you got the basement. The
lock is a great idea and I love it. Don't
engage in the argument. It's not her house, it's your dad's.
So as long as your dad isn't asking for you
to leave, just go gray rock over her complaints, don't fight,

(07:16):
Just ensure you're good with your dad and ignore her.
Maybe consider keeping the door locked when you're there too.
If she's going to raise a fuss. Sister loves to
roast my husband. He expects me to defend him. My husband,
thirty one male, and I thirty female, have been married
for three years. About four months ago, we found out
that I was pregnant with our first baby. We were

(07:37):
overjoyed and told most of our family about it early on.
My husband didn't want to reveal it to our friends yet,
and so I didn't. It was incredibly hard for me,
especially because I couldn't tell JJ, thirty female. JJ and
I have been best friends since we were fourteen. I
love her so much and we tell each other every
single thing, but I decided to respect my husband's wishes

(07:58):
this time. Also moved three hours away from us earlier
this year, so she doesn't visit as much either. Naturally,
over the past month, more and more of our friends
have gotten to know about it, but I couldn't find
the right time to tell JJ, and my husband didn't
insist much either. Yesterday, JJ visited us and I revealed
the pregnancy through a small box that said you're an

(08:19):
ante now with a baby onesie. Now. JJ's a little goofy,
which is what I love the most about her. She
doesn't care what others think and is just a very
entertaining person in general. When she saw the text, she
immediately started screaming and then cried and hugged me. It
was a very emotional moment for both of us. My
husband seemed pretty happy about it too, although he's known

(08:41):
to not adore JJ's amusing behavior. Sometimes she's a huge
jokester and she loves to roast him. After the reveal,
she gave him a big hug, then it pat on
the back and said, darn, Mike, didn't know you could
do that. This was clearly a joke, and everyone in
the room let out a laugh. My husband was not
very haph He responded with, you know, this is why

(09:03):
you were the last one to know about this, in
a very passive, aggressive tone. JJ was taken aimback and confused.
She asked me if that was true, and when I
responded with an explanation, she said she was kind of
hurt but was happy for us. The excitement died down
in the room after that, and everybody left soon after.
I got really mad at my husband for saying that
to JJ, but he says that he's tired of her

(09:25):
cracking jokes. And not taking things seriously. And most of all,
he hates that I never take his side, knowing JJ,
she's really just kidding most of the time, and I
don't think there's anything to be that offended over. My
husband thinks I'm being a jerk here by not defending him.
What do y'all think? Am I the jerk? She's a
huge jokester and loves to roast him, And I'm assuming

(09:47):
your husband has expressed his displeasure at this behavior in
the past. It doesn't matter if JJ likes to roast him.
If he doesn't also like it, and he clearly doesn't,
then it isn't roasting. It's bullying, and like many who
have been bullied continuously, he had finally had enough and
clapped back. Was it mean? Yes, but so was her bullying.
If you don't have the awareness to see how her

(10:08):
bullying affects your husband, that's a you problem, and you
don't get to blame him when he stands up for himself.
You're the jerk, and you need to talk to JJ
about her bullying him after you have a serious look
at how you've helped enable this behavior for years, and
apologize to your husband about it. Everyone sucks here. You
and your friend, not your husband. It sounds like she

(10:30):
likes to roast him and he doesn't like it. That's
not entertaining behavior. This probably isn't the first time he's
reacted to one of her roasts, and it's probably not
the first time he's talked to you about it. He
says he's tired of this. If she doesn't take him seriously,
why wouldn't you step up and say something to her?
You say she doesn't care what others think. She should
care what your husband thinks about what she says to him.

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You should too. Am I the jerk for suing my
girlfriend after she had my nineteen sixty seven Impola taken
to the scrapyard. I'll try to keep this short. I
had a nineteen sixty seven im Paula four door that
I bought in February twenty nineteen. A couple months ago,
I bought my first house that had a two and
a half car garage. I moved the car in and

(11:12):
started tearing it down for a complete restoration. I had
the body in one bay and the chassis in another,
plus the whole garage filled with parts. About two months ago,
my girlfriend came to live with me, and the whole
time she's hated that car. She wants to park in
the garage. But I have two acres of land with
a lot of nice places to park under shady trees
or even in the barn if it has to be inside,

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I tell her, tough luck. It's my house, and it's
not like I can just throw it back together real quick. Anyways,
I was out of town for a couple days on
a business trip for the small local company I worked for.
When I got back, my girlfriend was all smiles, making
me food all the time, doing all the chores. All
of that. I thought maybe she was just happy to
have me home, But then I realized that I didn't

(11:57):
see her car in its usual spot. I am to
where she parked so I could make sure I mow
that area and keep it clean, and she said not
to worry, because she parked in the garage. I asked how,
and she told me to go check it out. Turns
out that while I was gone, she hired some people
to come over and move everything related to that car,
including the drive train, body and chassis and all parts,

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and take it to the local dump and scrap yard.
I was absolutely dumbfounded. I had spent over eleven thousand
dollars on that car, including new parts, services, and the
car itself. I told her that I was going to
be taking her to court for that, and she brushed
me off like I was being dramatic. I told her
that it's done between us and to pack her things
and leave. I admit I was really angry, but I

(12:42):
did end up getting a lawyer, and as I have
all the receipts for all of the money I spend
and I have her on my house security cam footage
letting the guys in and watching them take it all,
I think I can win. Her family and friends are
absolutely blowing me up, saying it's just a stupid old
piece of junk and that she cannot pay back all
that money I spent and that I should just let
it go. But I've been putting all of my time,

(13:04):
effort and money into that car for a year and
a half now, and I'm going to get justice for
what she did. Am I the jerk? Edit? Thank you
so much for the support. I'm glad I have some
people on my side. I got a call from her
mom about twenty minutes ago, and she told me that
I was ruining her daughter's life over a stupid car.
I told her that she ruined her own life. I've

(13:25):
been gathering documentation and I'm about to head down to
the police station and file a report I suggested by
a lot of you here. Once again, thank you all. Update.
Went to the police station last night, was told to
come back in the morning. Just got back and filed
an official report against her for grand larceny and grand
theft auto. I showed them all of the receipts that
I had for the car and the footage of her

(13:47):
letting the guys come and take it, as well as
the title for the vehicle and my name. They said
that they will be in contact with all three parties, me,
ex girlfriend and the Junkyard guys soon and they hopefully
will be able to recover some or all of the car.
Just have to wait now. Huge update. They found my car.
The Junkyard guys apparently were in the middle of hiding

(14:08):
it when the police came to ask them questions. It
was on a forklift and they were going to put
it on top of a pile of cars that was
hidden behind more piles of cars. They said it was theirs,
and that they had the title but obviously didn't have
the title for it, and since they matched the VIN
on the chassis and body to the VIN on my title,
it was obviously mine. I know at least one person
there has been arrested. I think he was on the

(14:30):
camera footage I talked about earlier, but I don't know
if it was the boss or whomever, or even his
specific charge. They also told me that they would be
looking into the specific Junkyard for any other vehicles reported stolen.
They said they haven't been able to get in contact
with my ex just yet, but they're working on it.
I'm just so glad they found my car. Luckily, I
made quite an album of pictures detailing me tearing down

(14:52):
the car, and so I can use that to prove
what parts they had were mine, so I can hopefully
get most or all of it back. Police haven't let
me take make it back home yet, as they say
it's evidence or something, so hopefully I can get it
back eventually. Thank you all so much for the support
and advice. She's gonna be all right. Not the jerk.
Sue her sueer for the cost, plus a few extra

(15:14):
thousand for the time and money. Have her prosecuted for
theft destruction of private property and half the guys that
came to get it prosecuted for receiving stolen goods. Nail
them all to the wall. So you want us to
adhere to the company hierarchy. Sure, so I work as
a mechanic and a sewage treatment plant. It's a very
laid back job. In fact, three out of eight hours

(15:37):
was spent not working. I know that it sounds like
we're a bunch of freeloaders, but it's just because the
tasks we perform are simple and we do our best
to do them asap. Anyway, the hierarchy in our plant
is quite complicated, but the most important thing is that,
as a part of a mechanical department, our only supervisor
on site is our master. At least I think that's
the English translation. Both plant manager and plant master are

(16:00):
not our supervisors. Yet they, as well as other workers,
asked us to carry out some jobs for them, which
we gladly agreed to do, even despite most of them
being out of our range of duty. You know, welding
racks back together, installing a new faucet, etc. Most of
the time we weren't doing anything else anyway, but sometimes
we were preoccupied with our own tasks. Still, the plant

(16:22):
master always told us that his tasks were more important
and to just leave what we were doing for some
other day. Due to this, many of our old tasks
were left for another day, which, because of constant requests,
were left sitting for months. Still, it was always his
jobs that had the priority. Now is the right time
to address the tense situation we had with the plant master.

(16:44):
He's best buddies with the manager, usually blaming all of
the shortcomings of his team on us, stuff like something
not being cleaned, stuff that's not a mechanical failure, stuff
that's simply not important enough, or stuff that's beyond our
competencies and should be taken care of by a specialist company.
He also had this very annoying habit of rummaging through
our tools, taking parts and using our machinery without asking.

(17:07):
It's very annoying, but whatever, it's important to keep good
relationships in work. But then he dropped the bomb. He
had the list of all of our old tasks that
were left unfinished. The list that wasn't that long, by
the way, about eight things, three of which were outside
of our competencies and said that our manager and CEO
will be waiting in the conference room to give us

(17:27):
a lecture and to take away our bonuses. The meeting
went very roughly. It started with the CEO saying you
can see goodbody or bonus this month, then proceeded to
give us a lecture about the importance of our tasks.
Then he kept blabbering about us, threatening our master, plant
master being the only supposed witness, et cetera. When the

(17:48):
CEO was talking about possible solutions, the plant master did
the worst calculation of his life. He proposed adhering to
the company structure and proper workflow. Well, we didn't want
to oppose since wenw what that meant. We talk this
over with our master now. Every time the plant manager
slash master wants us to do something, we reply with

(18:08):
we don't take jobs in the corridors. We have our
jobs to do. Sorry, we can't afford to leave what
we're doing. We have it planned for today or does
our master know about this? We can't do anything without
him ordering it to be done by now. No one
has been to our workshop for four weeks. No extra jobs,
no side jobs, nothing. Only two tasks a day that

(18:30):
usually take thirty minutes each with a team of five,
and it's all by the books. We definitely respect the
company structure and have a proper workflow focusing on our
tasks ps. Most of the backlogs were also due to
stuff breaking down, which is mostly due to a faulty infrastructure.
Most of the pipes are clogged with sedimentation and require
thorough cleaning and rebuilding. But I guess it's cheaper to

(18:53):
simply replace a pump which had to push the same
amount of sewage through pipes that have narrowed by two
times at this point, pumps and yeah, the pipework in
technology is the responsibility of the plant master and plant manager.
Am I the jerk for wanting to keep the money
my grandmother left me and her estate and not give
it to my parents. My grandmother passed, leaving her estate

(19:15):
to her two sons, my dad's brothers and my brother
twenty three male and I. My dad had estranged my
grandmother for the last fifteen years of her life, but
my brother and I maintained a relationship with her. In
her will, she specifically noted that she was giving the
share of her estate that would have otherwise gone to
my father, to my brother and I divided into. My

(19:36):
parents have been extremely adamant that this money is theirs,
that my father should have never been written out of
the will, as the money was his birthright. My mother
has told me that this money is the only thing
that will give my dad his dignity back, so that
he is of equal value to his two brothers, who
received money. My grandmother wronged them, and from their perspective,
she did this to get back at them. I've dealt

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with my uncles and the lawyers of the estate for
the past two years as all of this has unfolded.
I maintained a relationship with my grandmother up until her
last day. I visited her while she was in palliative care.
My father did not. He sent a text message to
her through my cell phone during her last week. My
father and mother have cut me off from the rest
of my extended family, both on my dad's side and

(20:20):
my mom's side, all for reasons I still don't entirely understand,
as I was very young when it happened. They've told
me a bit about why this happened, but it's been
very surface level. They say it was because the family
judged them beyond reasons that were repairrable. When speaking to
my parents about wanting to give them some money but
keep some for my future and to help me pay
off my student loans, they responded by telling me that

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I'm not poor enough for this money. I don't eat
Kraft dinner every night, I have a full time job,
and my level of stress financially is incongruent with my
spending habits. Also that I have trouble seeing things from
a different perspective, because if I understood why my dad
needed this money to retain his dignity, I wouldn't be
fighting this. They also desperately financially need this money. My

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dad is unemployed and my mom only has her pension
for them both. I'm worried my dad will cut me
out if I don't just give him my entire share
of the estate. My brother is scared of losing my
parents that he's just decided to give them the entirety
of his share. I'm trying to stand my ground. I
love my parents. I just want them to have some
accountability for everything that's happened, and that I maintained a

(21:25):
relationship with my grandma and that means something. They're adamant
that money is theirs, and I'm only being given it
because they allowed me to have a relationship with her
and didn't cut me off from her. I feel guilty
that I will not be maintaining my grandmother's wishes, but
I also don't want to lose the only family I
have left. Not the jerk. The idea your mom has

(21:46):
that money equals dignity is totally materialistic, BS, mega nonsense.
Your money is not your identity, and anyone that's unfortunate
enough to think it is they're diluted. Money is not dignity,
money is not character. But that money is yours, legally,
rightfully and morally given by your grandmother. The rest of

(22:06):
this BS is just a family squabble about status. Forget
that if your dad wanted to be included in the inheritance,
he should have thought about how estranging your grandma would
effect that before it was too late. Am I the
jerk for rubbing in my family's face? My great life?
My husband and I got married last weekend. I come

(22:26):
from a very poor background and a huge family from
a tiny town. We're close, even if I've always been
the weird and different one moving away, et cetera. Husband
comes from a huge, more middle class family. One of
my favorite things to do is host and entertain. I
think life can be hard, and making people comfortable or
showing them a great time is a really worthwhile thing.

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It's also fun for me, like a giant crafting project
to plan an event. I love it. My husband does
very well, and I've been lucky to have a great
career and do the same. Our wedding was the only
time likely for all of these people. We both loved
to be in the same place to meet and celebrate together,
so we wanted to make it special and magical. We
were very clear that gifts were not necessary, and I

(23:09):
set aside a fund for my aunt and I to
coordinate covering any expenses for people who wanted to come
but couldn't afford the hotel, outfit et cetera. But quietly,
I know a huge wedding is a waste to many people,
but it isn't to us. We did three days of
events and covered meals and open bars for three hundred people.
We had a short performance, a big welcome party with

(23:30):
a kind of carnival for the kids, gift bags for
everyone and lots of surprises. It was so fun to
watch all the joy and everyone smiling and happy. Everything
was optional. We shamed no one who came to only
one part or couldn't swing it. At brunch the final day,
my aunt pulled me aside and asked me to go
to my cousin's room and console her. She said she

(23:50):
had been sobbing all night and morning because her wedding
and August would be nowhere near this level, and she
thought all our family would hate it and judge her.
My heart broke. Every wedding I've been to with my
family has been low key, maybe in a barn or
a rec center, someone's backyard. No one has ever judged
or looked down on this, nor would I just different
styles and we always have a great time. I left

(24:13):
my guests at brunch and spent the better part of
an hour with my cousin, trying to assure her of
all of the above. I told her a wedding is
a celebration of love, not money, et cetera, and that
we were all very excited. She finally got weirdly calm
and stopped crying, then looked me dead in the eye
and said something like, well, you don't need to worry

(24:34):
about it because you're not invited anymore, then locked herself
in the bathroom. I came back to brunch and most
everyone was gone. I was crying, but didn't want to
make a scene and just got out as fast as possible.
My husband keeps telling me to not take it to heart,
but I hate that something we worked so hard to
make fun and memorable for people ended up making someone

(24:56):
I love feel terrible. And now my aunt her has
started telling people that I just did this to rub
in my family's face, my great, fancy, rich life, etc.
I feel sick. I was so happy and proud, and
now I feel so stupid. Did I really mess this
up that badly? Am I the jerk? First? Congratulations second?

(25:19):
Not the jerk? A quote? No one can make you
feel inferior without your permission. You had an amazing celebration.
Please don't let one person spoil it. You will never
be able to please everyone. You can't cater to everyone's desires.
Do what works for you. Be humble and gracious, and
it sounds like you did this well, so major props
and let the rest follows. At May, I don't have

(25:41):
a ton of evidence to back this up, but part
of me thinks that she slash They were hoping to
guilt you into offering money towards your cousin's wedding, her
mother and her being so distressed about how her event
wasn't going to be as fancy, emphasizing that she was
worried about being judged for her less expensive options feels
like she may have been attempting to manipulate you into

(26:02):
offering cash to make things fair. Then when you didn't
follow the script, she dropped the poor little me act,
got mad and uninvited you. Now to cover it all up,
they're bad mouthing you everywhere because painting you is selfish
and nasty is a great way of covering up what
they were trying to do. You're not the jerk. Either,
your cousin is hilariously over sensitive or they were up

(26:24):
to something. Uninviting you because your event was messer is
such a massive overreaction, not the jerk. This is why
the greatest book ever written on getting rich, the author
talks about how important it is that you disassociate yourself
completely from anything and anyone having to do with poverty.
They will not be happy for you, and at best

(26:44):
they will feign joy for your success. They will be
jealous and expect you to hand over your wealth to them.
They will talk about how you changed because you don't
give them the things they expect from you. I grew
up in the projects and built my own clothing line
into a multimillion dollar enterprise, and I learned early on
that does money change people, Yes, but it's not always
the one who makes the money that changes. It's the

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people around them that you need to watch out for.
My own brother broke into my house and stole over
fifty thousand dollars worth of my jewelry because I wouldn't
pay his mortgage for him that I told him from
the jump he never should have taken on. Now he's
in prison off some other charges he caught, but even
when he's getting out, I ain't gonna have nothing to
do with his dumb self. I grind it hard for

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everything I have, and I'm gonna stay away from broke
individuals until the day I die. Am I the jerk
for firing the babysitter, for being a bad influence. My
wife and I hired a babysitter, Adeline who's eighteen, for
our kids who are eight months, two, four, five, and
seven a few months ago. Adeline is great with our

(27:48):
kids and she's the only babysitter that can handle so
many kids. A couple problems are that she's constantly laid.
It's usually no more than five minutes. She has been
ten and even fifteen minutes late, however, but it's still irritating.
Another thing is after she gets everyone asleep, she spends
the rest of the night on her phone or laptop.

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She never cleans up in the playroom because she claims
it's always messy and she doesn't know where anything goes
and will only clean up what she did with the kids.
For example, Adeline did an art project with my older
three kids and cleaned the counters and the floor after
that art project, but she didn't pick up the toys
that were in the living room or do the dishes.
Another problem is that her outfits. I've asked my wife

(28:31):
to talk to her about it, but she refused, even
though she admitted that she agreed about Adeline's clothes. My
parents are in town and they wanted to take the
kids on a walk. While on the walk, they saw
Adeline on a run wearing an outfit that barely covered anything.
Everyone saw her, and my kids talked about it for days.
My five year old has also been talking about how

(28:53):
pretty she is and that he's going to marry her
when he gets older, which is completely unacceptable. I decided
to fire her because of the reasons I listed above.
When I told my wife, she started screaming at me
because she thinks Adeline is a great babysitter and is
reasonably priced. I told her Adeline is a bad influence
and I don't want her around my kids. But she's

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refusing to speak to me until I call Adeline back
and offer her job back. She even wants me to
offer her a raise if she says no, Am I
the jerk for firing the babysitter for being a bad influence?
I cannot stop laughing so much. You're the jerk. If
you want someone to clean your home, that is a
separate service for which you must appropriately pay. From what

(29:37):
your wife said, you're already underpaying the babysitter, so I'm
sure your wife is fine with her being a few
minutes late. You're already getting a great bargain. I'm sorry
you're such a lazy slob that you don't clean your
own house. I'm thinking it's best for Adeline that she
no longer works for you. You're clearly a creep and
it's not safe for her. There. Stepsister destroyed my books,

(29:58):
gets her trip canceled. I'm sixteen female. My dad married
my stepmom two years ago. She has a daughter who's sixteen,
called Bianca. Bianca and I don't like each other. She
thinks I'm a spoiled brat and that I have a
princess complex because both my parents came from money and
I always get what I want. This is by no

(30:19):
means true at all. While my parents bought me lots
of things, I have a part time job and keep
my grades up to earn everything I ask for. One
of the things I love the most are books, fantasy, romance, crime, mystery.
I love them all. My mom and I share this hobby,
so we're always buying books and reading them together. I
also have a Nintendo switch and a TV in my room,

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aside from my laptop and my phone. Those are my
most prized possessions. My sister is always asking to borrow
my things, clothes, makeup, my switch, or my books. I
let her use the first three because I don't really care,
but when it comes to my books, I don't let
anybody else have them. A few weeks ago, she came
and asked me to take one or two because she

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saw the guy she likes reading The Seven Husbands of
Evelyn Hugo, and I happened to have that book, though
I've still yet to read it. I said no, and
we had a discussion because I was so spoiled to share.
She asked again by dinner and I said no. Then
she asked by breakfast and tried to get my dad
and stepmom in. Both of them agreed with me. I

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sent her a few links of the book on discount,
and I thought that was it. But three days ago,
when I came back from my mom's house, I found
seven of my books, including the ones she wanted, ripped
to pieces, some big chunks of my wallpaper missing, and
a few posters on the floor, all destroyed. It was
no mystery. As soon as I told my dad and stepmom,

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they knew it was her and grounded her. She was
supposed to go to la in June for her birthday,
but her mom said she wasn't going to be paying
for it, and since her dad won't either he's a
dead beat, then she'll pretty much just miss it since
some for the money will be to replace all the
things she destroyed and the rest will be kept as punishment.
She's now losing it on me and calling me every

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name under the sun because I ruined her trip and
the guy has been talking to another girl. You know
you're not the jerk your stepmom sounds awesome, considering she's
making her daughter face consequences for her behavior instead of
enabling it. OPI I was confident I was not the jerk,
but some of my friends said that I went too
far for some books because I can always replace them,

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and that it was not that big of a deal
compared to her trip because that was for her birthday. No,
they're wrong. It doesn't matter what the items were. That's irrelevant.
She destroyed things that didn't belong to her and now
she's facing the consequences. Support our channel by joining as
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