Karen Unleashes Her Wrath After I Neutered Her Cat! - Reddit Stories

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You newtered my cat? How dare your slash hands? Hey there,
mister Redder, here and the intelligent one me. Welcome back
to another episode of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story
will be reading today. Karen lets her cat roam the neighborhood,

(00:21):
so I had him neutered. I run a TNR program
for feral cats, nonprofit. I catch all cats, then I
get them the medical attention that they need, myself out
of my own pocket. I love helping them. A lot
of the cats are not able to be re homed,
so I fix them and release them, get them their shots,
and hope for the best. I'm not a large scale operation. Recently,

(00:41):
I was called to an area overrun with orange cats.
They were everywhere, and I mostly ended up handing it
over to the professionals. I did, however, manage to grab
three very sweet cats. Two were terrified, skinny, looked like
they had seen a few fights, but were overall friendly.
The third one was a little gent He was tough,
well groomed, fish patterned collar, the works. My plan was

(01:04):
to find his parents and drop him off with a
warning to keep him in due to the large amount
of traps being set. Then the little guy sprayed the
inside of my card to the max, so apparently he
wasn't fixed. I couldn't really tell long hair and assumed
he was, so I left my covers off. Big mistake.
I debated taking him home or taking him to get
neutered with the rest. He was an indoor slash outdoor cat,

(01:27):
indicated by his collar tag, and with so many strays,
I'm certain some were carrying his genetics. Ultimately, I took
him with me and got him neutered. No chip, so
I called the number on his tag and informed them
where their cat was and gave them time slots to
pick him up or to have him dropped off. The
owners went ballistic. They were going off on me and
came to collect their cat. Not twenty minutes later. They

(01:49):
called me a cat thief, blamed me for their kid
having nightmares scared over their cat going missing. I tried
to explain that he needed to be fixed if he
was going to be outside, but they didn't want to know.
They said I should have called immediately. Regardless, I spoke
to my rescue friend, who said I was in the wrong.
Even though we know we're technically in the right, we
didn't have the legal ground to do that, and it

(02:10):
wasn't my decision to make. I did apologize, but I
have blocked their numbers. The mom is flaming me on
Facebook and dming people. I know I have a duty
to take care of stray cats. Me knowing an unneutered
male was roaming free and not doing anything about it
was a concern for said stray cats. Things are still
tense between my rescue buddy and I, and I don't

(02:30):
completely disagree. I know I crossed the line, even if
it was for the greater good. People are finding out
and taking sides, so I'm not sure who to really
believe was right here? So am I the jerk? You're
the jerk. You did steal their cat, and you made
a superbly arrogant decision to have him neutered without the
owner's permission. You can judge them all you want for

(02:51):
letting their cat outside, but the first thing you should
have done was to call the cat's owners and ask, hey,
I found your cat. Did you know he was outside?
That's the basic due diligence right here. Howell a vet
decided to neuter the cat means you must have taken
off the caller and obscured the owner's information, or they
would not have done it without your permission. You just
made yourself very actionable. Legally, you don't know if they

(03:13):
were planning to breed the cat and he just happened
to get out OPI. I spoke to my vet. She's
a TNR VET. She neuters and moves on. There was
no address on the caller, so my vet said it
was fine. I don't know if she tried to call
the owners or not, though I personally don't condone the
breeding of cats when we have so many dying literally
for homes. Not three weeks ago, I dropped off at

(03:35):
least thirty kittens and a couple pregnant mamas at a rescue.
Maybe ten will be adopted, the rest will be put down.
It's horrible. I don't really care if they had plans
to breed. Truthfully, well, then you shouldn't care if they
sue you. I guess since you feel you're completely in
the right and justified right, I understand that the cat
overpopulation problem is horrible. I'm a cat owner myself. My

(03:57):
problem is that you stole someone else's pet. Zero justification
for that, And if the vet is that careless, They're
leaving themselves open to be ensued as well. You should
have the burden of calling the owner before deciding to
permanently alter their pet. Everyone sucks here, the owners for
letting an intact pet outside unsupervised to breed, and you

(04:17):
for having a surgical medical procedure done to an animal
that you knew how to owners without the owner's permission.
Regardless of the morality of allowing pets to contribute to
the stray population for which the owner is a jerk,
making medical decisions for someone else's pet makes you a
massive jerk. Everyone sucks. A free roaming cat is a
feral cat. You're not the jerk. Thank you for your service. Well,

(04:41):
who do you think is the jerk? Op or the
cat's owners? Please let us know. I know we're gonna
lose some subscribers for this, but it needs to be said.
If you're stupid enough to let your unneutered cat roam
the neighborhood and have kittens everywhere that are all going
to be strays, you don't even deserve to have a pet.
Don't add me. Am I the jerk for cooking while
my roommate it's girlfriend was here and offering her some.

(05:02):
I twenty one mail and from the South. I grew
up in New Orleans and Texas. My mom runs a
catering business and the majority of clients were either at
home in Louisiana or in Texas. I had this to
say that I grew up cooking and helping my mom
cook for the business. I was frying chicken and catfish
when I could reach the stove, and making gumbo and
buttermilk biscuits at a very young age. I'm currently in

(05:24):
culinary school right now. I've lived in a rented house
on the East Coast with my roommate, twenty two Mail
for a year and a half. He's not a friend
or anything. We just linked up because we both needed
roommates in the area. He's good to live with, and
we watch shows and movies together. We hang out and
go out for drinks sometimes. I always make friends easy
because of being from the South and doing customer service

(05:45):
related things when I was a kid. I know how
to talk and charm and listen to folks, despite being
naturally more of an introverted person. My roommate has been
seeing his girlfriend, who's twenty for six months. I've met
her before, and I've seen her in passing. And his
girlfriend had a two week break from school things. She
still lives at her parents, so she decided to stay
here the whole two weeks. I was just doing things

(06:08):
as I normally would. It got weird at first when
I was about to go mow the lawn and the
roommates stopped me and said he wanted to mow. I
usually always mow. A couple of days later, I was
outside washing my car. I asked both of them if
they wanted to do theirs. She looked like she was
going to agree, but he looked at her angrily, so
they declined. I cook pretty frequently at home as well,

(06:29):
and usually let my roommate have some, so anytime i'd
make some, I would say that they could have some,
and this would get him upset. Weeks prior, when she
was here and we were all talking, she mentioned this
specific kind of cheesecake that she really likes, so I
made it and sent out a group text that everyone
could have some. My roommate got upset. I don't see
anything as overstepping a boundary, as this is how I

(06:51):
treat him and all of our guests. The other day,
he told me how annoying it was to hear his
girlfriend talk about how good your roommate's fresh baked bread is.
I'm not trying to make him look bad or anything.
This is simply how I was raised. If I baked
two loaves of bread, I'm gonna leave it out for
the rest of the house to eat. Edit. The cheesecake
is just common courtesy type thing to me. When his

(07:11):
parents came over, I made pound cake because they like it.
If a guest is coming, you get or make what
they like. Nothing odd about picking up their favorite chips
or making some tea when guests arrive. Just how I
was raised. Edit. Wow, this is blown off. Just want
to say we generally have a good roommate relationship. We're
not best friends, but it's friendly enough. The only change

(07:32):
has been with his girlfriend is here. So no, I'm
not looking for new roommates to be adopted or to
move out. But thanks. Here's some more things that upset him.
I went to the grocery store and asked if anyone
needed anything. I was frying chicken, and I offered the
first and best pieces to them straight out of the oil.
I changed the oil to my own car. I used

(07:52):
a smoker in the backyard to make brisket. I grill
and smoke in the backyard and needed a piece of
wood cut in a certain way to hold something up.
I cut and nailed some wood together in the garage.
Feels like I can't even exist while she's here. Update.
A lot of people wanted an update. I wanted to
see my roommate in the more positive light. I tend
to try to see the best in people, but reading

(08:13):
the replies and his recent actions have really opened my eyes.
I never took him too seriously because he's a pretty
harmless little guy in my perspective. There is a big
difference in how he lashes out at me compared to
his girlfriend. He's gotten big tough with me in text form,
but only mildly upset when I see him in person.
I have taken a step back and looked at anything
I could have done to provoke him, not excusing his behavior.

(08:36):
And while I don't believe I'm in the wrong for
being hospitable and a hosting guest, if a seventy five
year old man were staying with us, I would treat
him the same as I've treated his girlfriend. I do
realize that he's not from the South. I was told
by others in school that women outside the South don't
enjoy being called ma'am. However, I've never seen a lady
get angry if I did call her ma'am. Up Here,

(08:57):
I call women of all ages dear or dark, and
I could see how that could be seen as flirtatious,
even though it's just part of how I speak. Now
that he knows I've seen him in his true form,
he doesn't even try to act the way he did before.
I sent his girlfriend's screenshots of the texts he said
and told her the things that he said. I'm not
sure if she's leaving or staying, but I've let her
know and told her to let me know if she

(09:19):
needs any help. I don't plan on moving any time soon,
as I enjoy having room for a grill and a
smoker and a garage. He told me he's looking for
new places to live and will potentially go back to
his parents. I make enough working at a restaurant to
afford the rent alone. I would like more going into savings,
but I'm not worried financially for the time being. I'm
flattered and overwhelmed by all the positive replies. About a

(09:41):
hundred of you told me to thank my mom, so
I sure will. I grew up working in hospitality with
my mom and siblings. My dad is the one that
instilled respect in me. He never felt emasculated, even when
my mom's business ended up making more than he does.
They just save their money from their jobs and go
on vacation a lot. Final edit, I tend to see
the good in the best in people, so I wasn't

(10:02):
seeing him as being very insecure and was trying to
look at this in a more positive light. But he
just texted me and said that I greet his girlfriend
in too kind of a way, and it's annoying that
I say be safe when she leaves the house. I
say this to him and everyone when they tell me
that they're going somewhere. He sent me a long text
detailing it's bad that I look her in the eyes
when she's talking to me. Maybe it's time for a

(10:24):
new roommate, not the jerk you are raising a bar
He doesn't want raised by getting things done. He wants
to pretend he's a better partner than he is. He
also doesn't want you to highlight things he isn't interested
in doing. In a way, you are unintentionally showing that
he isn't the best partner material around. Keep doing as
you are. He's being ridiculous. So he's okay with you

(10:46):
feeding him, but has a problem when you offer to
feed his girlfriend, who just happens to be in the house.
It's not like you only cook when she's there. Why
is he afraid you're gonna steal her with food? Is
he afraid he's only hanging out with him because you
feed her? Ask roommate what the problem is and then
stop doing what he doesn't like. If that means not
feeding her, then stop feeding him too. You sound like

(11:07):
a great roommate. You mow and offer to wash their cars?
Who does that? You're like Southern hospitality supersized? Would I
be the jerk to expect my husband to accommodate a
post pregnancy confinement? So I thirty female, am giving birth soon,
and we have this thing where I'm from, which is
basically post pregnancy recovery. What we do is stay in

(11:28):
bed and try to recover the physical and mental toll
pregnancy did on our body. So I've moved to my
husband's country, and it's not a widely done thing here apparently,
and I've already taken two months off of work. I've
talked to my husband about this, but he thinks it's
very unnecessary, especially since I need someone to take care
of me and the baby during the period. So here's
why I think it's feasible. One, we make really good money,

(11:51):
so it's not going to make a big dentt in
our financial account. Two, I can just have my parents
take care of me. Three, my company has really good employee, Benis,
so even if I take that extra month off, it
will still be under parental leave. Four my state has
parental leave for guys too, so my husband can also
stay home to spend more time with our daughter and me.

(12:11):
But my husband was really against it, and I do
want to acknowledge it might be very troublesome to extend
my parents' visa. So would I be the jerk if
I bring up the topic again. He's white and American
with Irish descent, if that matters. Edit. I tried talking
about it before, but it was shut down, and I
thought it was fine and I could go without one,
but my pregnancy wasn't smooth after six month mark, and

(12:33):
instead of natural birth, we are now going sea section,
and a lot of stuff happened, especially within the last
few weeks, so now I'm pretty adamant about getting this
one extra month of rest. To clarify, when I say confinement,
I don't mean actually just staying in the bed. Of course,
I can actually move around, and yoga is probably going
to be in my routine, but confinement is in I
avoid going out, I avoid doing strenuous activity, and to

(12:56):
rest more. And yes, per my doctor's recommendations, she wants
me to rest for at least a month. Hi husband
here would like to say this has opened up my
viewpoint was fed with a very skewed version of childbirth.
We will be keeping discussions private from here. Thank you
for the inputs. Update. I'm doing the confinement. My parents

(13:16):
will come over, but will be living in hotels until
the third week after my delivery. Since my husband will
be overseas. I appreciate all of your comments and concerns.
My parents will be meeting their grandkiddos. Also for clarification,
my parents aren't here yet. I meant to extend visa
as in the usual visa only allows thirty days. We
are trying to extend it to those short terms stay visa,

(13:38):
not the jerk. When your husband actually delivers, then he'll
have a say. Unfortunately, he's not delivering on being a
supportive spouse to his pregnant wife. Not the jerk. America
is the most backwards when it comes to maternal care,
and your husband is a product of that culture. What
they and everywhere should do is more like what you're

(13:58):
used to from home. We've grown an entire human then
pushed it out at great pain and potentially lifetime difficulties.
You deserve to rest as much as you feel you need.
That time should be just you and the baby getting
to know each other and your new routines. Do what
you need to do. Mama, you ever earned it? Am
I the jerk for eating a prepped meal in my
car before going into a restaurant with my girlfriend. Because

(14:20):
of my strict diet. Over the last couple of years,
I've lost nearly eighty pounds through extreme dedication to dieting
and exercise. It's been a life changing journey for me.
The journey started when my doctors warned me about my
poor cardiovascular health because of my unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle.
With thirty right around the corner, I couldn't keep being
the man I was before. It was a significant wake

(14:42):
up call. I tried immediately just focusing on going hard
in the gym, but I tried lifting weights without eating
properly and pretty much fried my cns during deadlifts, causing
me to pass out at the gym. It really scared me.
Since then, I've taken my health incredibly seriously. I prep
all of my meals and their cou to meet my
nutritional needs for the day and keep a caloric deficit

(15:03):
to have me on track for losing weight. I've avoided
going out to eat at all costs, as it feels
like a slippery slope back into my old habits. For me,
restaurants are like relapsing. One bite of a cheese steak
egg roll and I'm buying oreoles on the way home
and falling off the wagon. My girlfriend has been supportive
of my health journey, but hasn't joined me. She still

(15:23):
cooks and eats as she did before, which is a
lot of food covered in fats and sugars with a
lot of calories. I appreciate her cooking, but I can
eat most of the meals that she makes. It's been
a bit of a strain on our relationship, but we've
managed so boom. The conflict arose on our anniversary last month.
She wanted to go out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate,

(15:44):
and I wanted to make the night special as well,
and I agreed to go. I even made sure I
had calories left over to have drinks with her. However,
I didn't want to break my diet and decided to
bring a prepped meal to eat in the car before
we went in. She discovered what I was doing and
got really upset. She called me a jerk for not
putting aside my diet for one night, saying I cared

(16:04):
more about my food intake than about our special day.
She said that I was being selfish and that I
should have been more considerate of her feeling since it's
our anniversary. I feel conflicted. On one hand, I understand
where she's coming from and I didn't mean to upset her.
On the other hand, I've worked really hard to improve
my health and I'm scared of falling back into my
old habits. Am I the jerk for sticking to my diet?

(16:25):
Even on our anniversary. Edit. I'm five four and two
hundred and ninety seven pounds currently. Sorry, but you're the jerk.
This is your responsibility to address. Man, you have an
extremely unhealthy relationship with food you need to work on,
probably with a professional. I get this started for the
right reasons, but you have wildly overcorrected, and it seems

(16:46):
like you're pretty firmly in disordered territory. Your significant other
has been supportive and literally wanted one dinner out with
you for your anniversary. You shouldn't be in a relationship
if you can't do this for her. It's the bare
minimum stuff. Your mental health is important, so take care
of it. I hope you do, because what you are
describing is not sustainable or normal and it won't end well. Edit.

(17:08):
Please stop flooding this post with your ignorant straw Man
arguments that this is equivalent to asking an alcoholic or
an addict to indulge in their vice. It is simply
not comparable. You're not blowing anybody's mind, and you're not
coming across as some intelligent maverick. Food is necessary to live.
Food is not good or evil for alcoholics and addicts.
The only true solution to healing is abstinence. This is

(17:30):
not the case with food you need to eat, and
OPI's obsession with control over his diet is simply not sustainable.
It's not normal or okay to not be able to
eat at a restaurant for one singular meal. Kudos to
him for making the change, but he's gone too far
when it has affected his life to this degree. He
needs legitimate help if he can't relinquish control of his
food intake enough to enjoy a single meal for a

(17:51):
special occasion at a restaurant which could be healthy, without
fear of spiraling into a binge eating hole where he
loses all sense of self and eats himself into oblivion.
He promised a significant oother a date night at a restaurant,
and he shocked her with a brown bag meal in
front of the restaurant so he could watch her eat
and drink a cocktail. This is not okay behavior as
a partner, which is why he is the jerk. If

(18:14):
he can't handle that, he should be single. Stop with
the ridiculous comparisons to her asking him to drink as
an alcoholic. You are so wildly off base. It's embarrassing.
Believe it or not, an eating disorder is harmful, even
if you're overweight. Nobody thinks you're some shredded Greek god
for thinking otherwise. You're the jerk to yourself. More than anything.

(18:34):
You have an extremely unhealthy relationship with food. You think
your diet is helping you, but it sounds more like
you have a problem. One nice meal in years of
taking care of yourself will not disrupt your diet. If
it would, then you are very unhealthy mentally. Do you
go to a therapist or a dietician? I hear you,
but you're the jerk. I lost sixty pounds myself this

(18:55):
year and plan on more, so I do understand your
dedication and the strict calorie counting. However, special days are
special for a reason. Let's say the entire meal with
a drink came to thirty five hundred calories. You and
I both know that's equivalent to one pound of body fat.
Those calories might set you back and take two weeks
to get back on track, but it's worth it to
avoid this. Sorry, but you're the jerk here? Well, who

(19:17):
do you think is the jerk? OPI or his girlfriend?
Please let us know, oh p set a goal and
now he's staying dedicated to that goal to accomplish it.
He's not letting anything knock him off of his path,
and he's continuing to succeed. I'm not surprised in the
least that the people on vetted are knocking him for that.
Am I the jerk for sending our son away after
he revealed to his sister's friends that she has dentures.

(19:39):
My husband and I have a fourteen year old daughter
and a sixteen year old son. When our daughter was eight,
she developed a very rare mouth infection that just absolutely
devastated her teeth and gums. She ended up losing all
of her teeth in both sets and had to have
some corrective work done just so she could have regular dentures. Obviously,
this was a horrible time for her, and she's still
in therapy to help well cope to this day. Our

(20:01):
daughter is understandably very self conscious about this. None of
her friends knew about them. In fact, nobody besides her
doctor and dentists know outside of the family. She doesn't
want people to know. She's very worried about people finding out,
and won't even take her teeth out in front of us.
She's worried someone will see her. And her brother had
a good relationship until he did what he did last week.

(20:22):
He somehow recorded her taking out her teeth without her noticing,
and then showed all of her friends when they were over.
Not only have they all turned on her, but half
the school is teasing her NonStop. She even had to
change her phone number because dozens of kids were texting
her the most vile things imaginable. I've never been more
ashamed of one of my kids until that moment. I
don't know where we went wrong raising him, but apparently

(20:44):
he thought it would be funny. After I kicked out
her friends who were mocking her and helped her through
a panic attack, I called my father to pick him
up and told him to pack a bag and get out.
He's been staying with my parents two towns over. They
didn't know what happened until two days ago. That came
up because driving him to school was becoming a hassle,
and they wanted to know what was up. When I explained,

(21:05):
they were disgusted but still wanted to know when they
could bring him home. I asked them if they'd take
care of registering him for school in their town, and
they agreed, but were shocked. My husband and I talked
and we just cannot have him here. His sister hates him.
We're so ashamed. We can't even think of calling him.
It sounds awful, but I don't think our relationship can
recover from this, and maybe this is what he needs.

(21:26):
No friends, no family aside from his grandparents. Happiness, start
over might just set him straight. My parents are willing
to keep him until he's eighteen, but I think we're
too emotionally charged to be making this decision now. What
he did was vile and he deserves a harsh punishment
for what he did. However, I don't think the punishment
issued fits the crime. You can't just throw your son away,

(21:48):
and you can come back from this. It will take
a lot of therapy for all of you, but it
can happen. I honestly don't know how to judge this post.
Though everyone sucks here. I love that you have your
daughter's back and apply serious consequences for your son. What
I don't love is that you didn't mention how he
reacted to the aftermath of what he has done and
the consequences I also think it's an overreaction to permanently

(22:10):
disown your son and cut him out from your life.
He's still your son. Yes, terrible mistake, but still a
minor and still your son. You should be working with
him and not just being like this. So yes, let
him live with his grandparents, but work on a way
to rebuild your own, not your daughter's, relationship with them.
Call let him do volunteer work something. Am I the

(22:32):
jerk for telling my sister she's inconsiderate for only providing
vegan options at our wedding? I thirty female, and my sister,
who's thirty two, have an okay relationship. It's not the best,
but it's not the worst. She met a guy named
Riley who's thirty three, and they hit it off so
well that he proposed to her three months after they
started dating. Our parents thought it was too soon, but

(22:53):
they left them alone because they're grown and can make
their own decisions. Anyway, my sister and Riley have decided
to go vegan cool. I don't really care. Only issue
I have is that they tried to incorporate it into
nearly every conversation we have. They have somewhat boring personalities,
so I guess they needed something to make their personality about.
But it's okay. I was invited to their wedding and

(23:15):
not gonna lie. I had to think about it for
a bit because I'm not too big on social gatherings,
but it was my sister, so I decided to go
at the wedding. I had a fairly good time, wasn't
too bad, got to talk to some new people and
get out of my comfort zone a bit. The fun
came to a complete stop when it was time to eat,
though all the food was vegan, things like bread tofu salad.

(23:38):
I don't even know man. I wasn't the only one confused,
but the guests still dug in. I wasn't a fan, though.
I confronted my sister in Riley and asked what was
up with all the vegan food. They said they wanted
to present a different lifestyle to the guests and joked
about steering them away from meat. I was pretty disgusted,
not gonna lie. That sounded rude. I snapped back and

(24:00):
said if I did the same thing to you guys,
but with meat, how would you react? Stop being so
inconsiderate and learn to cater to your guests. She told me,
if I had a problem with it, then the door
is to your left and you don't need to look back.
I laughed and said there was no way she was
kicking me out over calling them out. She shrugged, then
walked away. Riley called me entitled and said I ruined

(24:22):
what was supposed to be a special day. I sighed
and left. That same night, I got a phone call
from my dad that my sister was in tears. He
told me I should have acted my age and focused
on my sister and her new husband, not the food.
My mom also texted me that my behavior was shameful
and that I wasn't raised to be judgmental of people's
life choices. I immediately felt bad. I kept thinking about it.

(24:44):
I couldn't sleep at night because I kept replaying the
confrontation in my head. I was just sick of all
this vegan crab being forced on me, and I was angry.
Am I the jerk at it? Wow? I don't eat
meat every single day. I was just hungry and in
the mood for some and when I saw the food
and it was all vegan and it looked like crap,
I nope, doubt yeah, I could have reacted better, but

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I'm tired of them always talking about being vegan and
telling me I should try it out. You're the jerk.
Are you sure you're thirty? This post reads like a
young teenager wrote it. Your behavior also is more akin
to a young teen than a fully grown adult. It's
their wedding. They can serve whatever food they please at
their wedding. You were also very dismissive of the whole

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thing before you even got there, acting like some kind
of martyr because you deigned to attend your sister's wedding.
You couldn't just suck up your crappy attitude for one day.
You're the jerk. Vegans and vegetarians cannot eat meat. You
made a false equivalency. You serving me this food I
don't like is the same as if I served you
food you can't eat. Am I the jerk for telling

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my parents I won't get a part time job. I'm
sixteen male. My parents recently have been telling me to
start making my own money to pay for unneeded stuff,
expensive clothes, and nights out with friends, which fair enough.
They told me to get a traditional part time job
working at a store or a restaurant or babysitting or whatever.
I decided those sounded time consuming and boring, so I

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decided to utilize my good taste in clothes to make
money in a more hands off way. I used money
I have already remnants of birthday money, mostly to go
to a thrift store and buy clothes I knew would
be in trend right now, and then sell them either
online or to people I know, then withdraw some of
the money for personal spending and put most back towards
buying more stuff. This is optimal because now, as of

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a month after starting, I'm making pretty good money for
very little work. One to two hours every weekend at
the thrift store, then another one to two hours to
pose for photos modeling the clothes and post them online.
And even that little amount of work is something I
find fun, so all in all, seems better than working
longer hours at something i'd find boring for similar pay.
My parents are angry because I took what was supposed

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to be a teachable moment about hard work and just
ruined it by finding a way to make money that's
not hard work at all. They demand in order for
me to learn about hard work, I quit this and
get an actual part time job. I see no logical
reason too. As I said, what I have going is
quicker and much more enjoyable than a part time job
for similar amounts of money earned. To put it simply,

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why would I work more hours doing something I like
less just for the same amount of money. Sounds irrational, right.
They think I'm the jerk and being lazy here. I
agree that there's a certain amount of laziness involved. But
if my system works, it works. Am I the jerk?
I don't think anyone is the jerk here. As a parent,
I can see why they would want you to get
a more traditional job. Usually, side gigs like this aren't

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great in the long run, and it's hard to stay
on top of an ever turning trend market. A regular
part time job for a team generally teaches responsibility, how
to interact with people, time management, punctuality, etc. I think
it's great that you found a way to make money
doing something you like. Your teen years are supposed to
be the time where you learn who you are, have fun,
make memories, et cetera. My parents wanted me to focus

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on this and school rather than working. If I wanted
money for something, that wasn't a necessity, for example, dance tickets.
I'd earn it by doing chores around the house, babysitting,
et cetera. It's not irrational a little lazy. Yes, you
are doing work and learning responsibility, so I would just
try to let it go for now. Everyone sucks here.
Your parents told you that you needed to earn your

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own money, so you did. They don't get to tell
you you're doing it wrong simply because you didn't do
it the same way that they would. But I'd also
implore you to do some reading about what up selling
thrifted items is doing to the second hand industry. You're
essentially taking trendy items out of the hands of people
who otherwise couldn't afford them, and the influx of people
like you is driving up prices at thrift stores and

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pricing out the people who truly need them. So, unfortunately,
your money making scheme is lazy and comes with some
real world consequences. You're the jerk. Thrift stores are there
to provide cheap clothes for people, whether for them to
find a more sustainable way to shop, or for those
who need it because they don't have much money. You're
taking advantage of that to sell clothes that were donated.

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Those clothes are meant to be cheap, not resold, so
you can make money without effort. I've worked at thrift
stores since the two thousands. I don't think you're aware
of who actually shops there. Yes, there are people who
haven't got a lot of money and have no other
affordable choices, but they're the minority of thrift shoppers. No
one is missing out. Not only has shopping at thrift
stores become very trendy for the past several decades, we

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get a mega ton of clothes constantly. It's where you
can find amazing stuff, from vintage fashion to affordable leather jackets.
We get so many clothes that the stuff that doesn't
sell within the month gets thrown into a giant bail
maker and the bales are sent off to other countries.
It breaks my heart because really cool and cute clothes
get thrown in and the bailer is often brutal and
will ruin them. But what can we do? More mountains

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of clothes are on the way. Thrift stores aren't exclusively
for the poor or exist as a charity alone. They
are resets. They have too much cool stuff every month
to sell it all everyone, please come and get it
before I start weeping by the bailor again, Karen stops
me mid workout and demands to use the squat rack.
This is becoming more and more common at the surrounding gyms,

(30:15):
which is really annoying and a reason I've changed gems
more than once this year alone. Working out as a
pillar of my everyday life, and it has been for
the past ten years, and I'm at the gym every
day of the week. Now, I don't go to the
gym to talk to people, make friends, or make funny videos.
I go to train and go home. However, now with
the new video trends, many folks want to record their

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exercises to post on social media. This is their business
and not mine. They can do whatever they want, but
I also don't think I need to stop doing my
own workout to accommodate them. Last night, I was doing
squats on the Smith machine. I work out with headphones,
and I didn't notice that someone was trying to get
my attention. I suddenly felt a tap on my shoulder
mid squad and only then I noticed a woman with

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a very annoyed expression. She barely allowed me to finish
the movement to start talking, which was muffled due to headphones.
Long story short, she was annoyed because I was training
on the Smith machine and she wanted to record herself
doing regular squats. However, she said the best spot was
in front of that Smith machine. There's more than one,
and she didn't want me on the frame, so she

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wanted me to stop my series for her to record. Now,
usually if someone comes to me with a good attitude
and asks if it's okay for me to stop for
a series or two for them to record or even
move machines, I would absolutely not mind and comply. This
lady did nothing of the sort, being extremely arrogant and honestly,
extremely annoying. So I was petty and I told her

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to record once I was done, and I proceeded to
do every single exercise I could on the same Smith
machine squats, Smith, hip, thrust Smith. It was petty, and
I know I shouldn't have done it, but I felt
very vindicated seeing her annoying expression. That being said, a
few people said I was for doing that, as there
were other machines I could have used. Honestly, they might

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be right. But hey, I thought i'd ask the internet.
Was I too much of a jerk here? Not the
jerk first off, who interrupts someone mid squad. A lot
of gyms have a no recording policy where I live.
In my last gym, these people just got reported to
the fitness manager, not the jerk. For all those people
trying to film themselves in a public place, get over yourselves.

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We don't care about your three hundred and twenty seven followers,
seen your gains. Stop disrupting public space with your ego. Well,
what would you have done in this situation? Would you
have gone ahead and moved for her or not? Please
let us know. I would have started coughing all over her.
It's one of the quickest ways to get people to
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