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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 will be reading today.
Karen uses me for food and housing. I've had enough.
After that, am I the jerk for blowing up on
my husband over chicken alfredo? And after that significant other
expects me to support them even though they were in
the wrong. Now, for every thumbs up, this video gits one,

(00:23):
Karen does not get to use someone for food. Kind
of hard to use someone for food when they can't
even make toast without burning it. Reddit boy, so please
smash that like button and subscribe and turn on notifications
for new stories from Reddit every single day. Karen uses
me for food and housing. I've had enough. When I
was in high school, I was friends with a popular girl, Madison.

(00:45):
I am not a nice guy, and we were honestly friends.
She was out of my league and I never had
any thoughts about a relationship with her. We remain friends
when I went away to university, and I was happy
for her when she got married. I work for a
tech company now not one of the fang companies, but
they still provide some really cool stuff for their employees.
Our cafeteria is free and open twenty four hours a day.

(01:08):
We can eat all of our meals there if we
want to. They have a nutritionist that make sure the
meals are tasty and healthy. I take advantage of the
food on a fairly regular basis, but I still keep
food at my apartment to make myself meals. I learned
from my dad, and I keep fruit loops, which the
cafeteria does not stock. Five weeks ago, Madison left her
husband and asked if she could stay with me while

(01:30):
she figured things out. I agreed, since I have a
spare room and we're friends. I thought it was a
more temporary thing. She has a job, and I think
she has access to a joint account with her husband.
I thought she would be here for a couple of weeks,
then go to her folks or settle her problems with
her husband. Instead, she hasn't left my house other than
to work. She ate all of my food in the

(01:52):
fridge and the pantry. I went grocery shopping once so far,
but she ate everything again and didn't even offer to
replace it. I asked her when she was going to
be moving on, but she says she doesn't know. I
asked her for some money for groceries, and she said
she hasn't been paid. It's been five weeks. I don't
think anyone holds back wages that long. So last week,

(02:13):
instead of going to Whole Foods, I just started eating
all of my meals, either at work or at a
restaurant on the way home. She asked me when I
was going shopping, but I said I was too busy
with work. She offered to go shopping for us if
I gave her the money. I said I was too
busy to cook food at home. She's saying that I'm
a jerk for trying to use food to control her

(02:33):
or too cheap to help her out. She thinks I'm
trying to be with her. I'm already not charging her rent.
She's still beautiful, but I'm seeing a side of her
that I've never seen before, not the jerk. I know
this is not an advice, sub, but you need to
get her out of your house. This has the potential
to go sideways really badly. Maybe I'm just a pessimist,

(02:54):
but it sounds like she thinks you are a better
meal ticket, both figuratively and literally than her husband. I
hope I'm wrong. I don't see why you aren't communicating
this with her. I have no romantic interest in you.
I'm not going to support you financially other than providing
a temporary place to stay. It's time for you to
find another place to stay. You have until this day
to move out for the food thing, not the jerk.

(03:18):
Let me get this straight. So you're not a nice guy,
yet you allow this beautiful, popular girl who left her
husband to live in your house, eat all your food,
exert control over you, and you're not getting anything in
return beyond friendship. Ever heard of an orbiter? These are
the guys who basically bow down to beautiful girls even
though they know they'll never have a chance with them.

(03:40):
Quit being an orbiter, bro. This is what happens when
young men grow up with a lack of self confidence.
Next thing you know, some hot friend is using you
for all kinds of stuff and you keep handing it
over because you think they're your friend. The reason the
hotties keep orbiters around is because they know they can
use you, whether for resources or is any emotional sponge

(04:00):
when dudes like me break their hearts. I've had so
many exes that I dumped who end up using their
orbiters as a distraction from heartbreak. Next thing you know,
she finds another guy who looks like me over six
foot jim rat, blonde hair, blue eyes. Then she ghosts
the orbiter until she needs them again. The funny thing
is they will never admit that this is what they do.

(04:22):
But my sister has always been honest with me though,
and she has straight up told me that her and
all of her friends laugh about this stuff all the
time because they all know it's true. Hey, redded boy,
how's it feel to be my orbiter? Kind Of like
getting a bill in the mail that you weren't expecting.
Am I the jerk for blowing up on my husband
over chicken? Elfrido? I thirty eight female. AM married to

(04:44):
my husband forty two male, and we've been together since
our early twenties and we have three kids who are
all under the age of ten. He's a mechanic and
works anywhere from sixty to eighty hours a week while
I work as a hostess three days a week at
a restaurant. While the kids are at school. I do
the majority of the house work and childcare, and I
don't mind, as I understand he has a hard job
and he works a lot. We get the kids on

(05:06):
the bus every morning because he leaves for work about
ten minutes afterward. All I ask of him is to
do his laundry, as his clothes are covered in oil
and grime and need to go in by themselves and
pick up after himself because the kids destroy the house enough.
A couple times a week he'll help with dinner and
clean up at the end of the day as well.
Over the last two months, he's completely stopped helping. He

(05:28):
dumps his clothes on the laundry room floor, His half
of the bedroom is a mess. He leaves cans and
wrappers all over the living room, and he's even stopped
getting the kids up, which has upset them as they
love their mornings. With that, He's also been coming home
hours later than usual. I've been letting it slide as
he seems very stressed out. But a few days ago
he snapped at me for letting his clothes go unwashed.

(05:50):
I reminded him that he always did his own laundry
and he hadn't asked me to do it. I'd been
doing it, I just hadn't gotten to it yet. He
just grumbled and went to go watch TV. Night I
made chicken Alfredo. We have it about once a week
because the kids love it, and no one's ever complained. Well,
he complained and moaned through the whole dinner, said that
since I'm not taking care of the house, I should

(06:11):
at least put a good meal on the table, that
I've just been letting the whole family go to heck,
and I should be ashamed of myself for treating him
and his kids like that. He called me a bad
wife and a mother in front of our kids. I
told the kids to go to their rooms, and I snapped.
I screamed at him about how much I do for
the household, that if it wasn't for me, the place
would be trashed, and he has no right to treat

(06:32):
me like this over chicken Alfredo. We went back and
forth for a while before he left, and I have
no idea where he went, and he isn't answering my
calls or texts. I feel bad now, as I shouldn't
have reacted like that, especially because I know he's just
stressed from work. But it all just kind of built
up and came out at once. I just want to
know if I was wrong for freaking out on him.
Like that update. I called my husband for the hundredth

(06:55):
time because he still hadn't come home and the kids
wanted to know where he was, and answered, I didn't
recognize her voice and he doesn't have a sister. I
asked her to put me on the phone with my husband,
and she asked who I was. I said I was
his wife, and she laughed into the phone and told
me he was busy. We went back and forth, with
her laughing at me the whole time, before telling me

(07:16):
she'll send him home soon and hanging up. It's now
the next morning and he's still not home. I really
didn't think he was cheating. I had really hoped this
was just a rough patch, but it looks like most
of you were right. I'm heartbroken and a little in
shock and not really sure what to do right now.
My brother said I should come stay with him, and
I might, or maybe just bring the kids so they
don't have to see us fight. I might update again,

(07:39):
I might not, but I'm sure you all know where
this is heading anyway. Not the jerk ope, I sincerely
hope I'm mistaken, but your husband may be having an
affair and setting you up to be the bad wife
and mother to justify his behavior. That's what happened to me. OP,
I'm sorry, something is awry and it's not you counseling now,

(08:01):
but keep a watch on your money and protect your kids.
Sounds like your husband is checking out, not the jerk.
Significant other expects me to support them even though they
were wrong. So I was talking to a few coworkers
the other day about how my partner, we'll call them Taylor,
can be sometimes difficult with service workers. For background, my
coworkers and I are all customer service workers. Anyways, So

(08:25):
Taylor and I went out for dinner a few days
ago to a restaurant where regulars at We go so
often that the staff knows our orders, which booth we prefer,
and which wait staff we prefer. That being said, we
get a discount and special promotional letters from the restaurant
often well. Prior to going, Taylor brought along and expired
five dollars coupon. I'd told them that the restaurant will

(08:46):
probably not honor it and not to get upset. They replied, Oh,
they'll accept it. Once the bill came. Taylor presented the
coupon and the waiter informed us that the coupon had
expired a week ago. Taylor became furious and pulled a
kid aron and said, we come here so often. I
don't understand why you're being so difficult. I won't to
speak to a manager. Oh great. So the manager came

(09:10):
over and explained that while she couldn't accept the coupon
because we're regulars, that she'd be happy to remove the
drink charge, which would have been ten dollars off. But no,
Taylor was adamant that the five dollars coupon be honored
and that they didn't want the drinks removed because we
aren't a charity case. At this point, they were so
loud that a lot of people were staring at us.

(09:30):
After Taylor said that, I lost it. I said, hey, okay, Taylor, stop,
I'll pay for the meal at full price. You're being
so ridiculous it's embarrassing. And the look Taylor gave me
was a mix of hurt and betrayal. They got up
and stormed out of the restaurant, and I apologized to
the manager and paid for the bill. The ride back home,

(09:50):
I just told them, listen, I'm sorry for embarrassing you,
but how you acted really wasn't okay. They're just doing
their jobs and you shouldn't give them a hard time
because you didn't read the fine print. Taylor didn't say
anything during the car ride back home, and that night
I decided to sleep in the spare room since they
asked for some time to think. Since then, things have
been back to normal and Taylor seems like their happy

(10:12):
self again. Anyways, when I told this to my coworkers,
they all looked shocked. Wait, you didn't have your partners back.
I told them no, because, frankly, I'm tired of this
behavior and I won't tolerate it anymore. My coworkers started
laughing and said that even if their partners were in
the wrong and the moment, they would have supported them
to avoid embarrassing them in public, which is basically what

(10:34):
I did. They said, instead of being a jerk to
my partner, I should have supported them at the restaurant
and later I should have told them that they were
in the wrong. So am I the jerk for not
supporting my partner even though they were in the wrong.
Not the jerk, but your partner is had you supported
them that you would have been a giant jerk too.

(10:54):
Not the jerk. Being horrible as service workers is actually
a deal breaker for me personally. They're human beans and
should be treated as such. Throwing a huge fit so
loud that you disturb by other customers is embarrassing and
over five dollars, iw I'd have the ick so bad? Sorry, Op,
Why would you have her back when she was acting

(11:14):
like a total jerk? And a place where y'all are
treated very well, no less, not the jerk? Prepare to
lose any discounts and perks when you go with her? Though?
Am I the jerk for insisting my sister in law
to visit us more when she is a busy resident
doctor and she says that she can't. My sister in law,
married to my brother, is a resident physician who works
sixty to eighty hour weeks and frequently works one or

(11:37):
both days of the weekend. Her residency is a seven
hour drive from where me, my husband, and our daughter,
who's one and a half years old live. My brother
and I were always very close growing up, and even
lived in the same apartment and later the same city.
We were never more than twenty to thirty minutes away
from each other. I got married and had my baby,
and he moved seven hours away to be with his

(11:57):
fiance now wife pretty soon after I had my baby.
It was devastating for me as I had always pictured
us being close and him being really involved as an uncle.
Sister in law works six am to five thirty pm,
six to seven days a week, but does have some
golden weekends where she has Saturday and Sunday off. She
usually has one per month, and then she has three

(12:19):
weeks of vacation, never over Christmas or New Year's holidays.
During those one weekend a month that she has completely off,
her and my brother either stay at home because she
needs to relax, or will drive two hours to see
her family. During the three weeks of vacation, which she
is only able to take one week at a time,
they went on a one week long trip to Hawaii,

(12:39):
a one week long trip to Cankun with her family,
and then one week where they just visited her family
two hours away. They haven't made the trip to visit
us more than one to two times a year, as
they say the drive is too hard with the limited
time off she has, and she's usually too tired to
come anyways, but not too tired for Hawaii or can Coon.
They always ask my parents and us to visit them

(13:00):
during holidays. She works, so at least we can be
together and she will join every day after five, But
it's hard for us to travel with a baby. My
parents have to split time visiting there and visiting us,
and we need them for childcare. I've been asking my
brother and sister in law to visit us more, even
though I know her schedule is busy, and my brother
got frustrated with me when I asked him to visit alone.

(13:22):
He said she needs him because the heavy workload has
been really mentally straining on her and quoted how resident
physicians have a really high depression rate and basically called
me a jerk. I feel it's unfair we have to
visit all the time, considering we have a one year
old and also both work full time, and feel they
should balance better to visit us rather than just vacation.
Am I the jerk for insisting? You're the jerk? You

(13:45):
don't have to travel to them if it's too hard
for you. But you come across as really judgmental and
lacking in compassion for how they choose to spend their
limited free time, asking them to travel seven hours each
way for a visit on the rare weekend she has
off is unreasonable. That would be fourteen hours of driving
for probably not even twenty four hours of time together,
including sleep hours. You say they do make the trip

(14:07):
about twice a year, and that seems reasonable given these circumstances.
You're the jerk. Going to Hawaii and staying at a
hotel is a relaxing vacation. Going to stay with family
who has a kid is not. Medical residency is grueling.
She can't balance better. You have the right to wish
you spent more time with your brother. You do not

(14:27):
have the right to expect it, though, nor to tell
other people how to spend their vacation time. I cried
every single day the last semester of my doctorate, and
I'm an art historian. I write about pictures. She's trying
to save lives eighty hours a week. You're the jerk?
Am I the jerk for refusing to go on vacation
with my boyfriend because he invited his friend without telling

(14:50):
me so. In a couple of weeks, my boyfriend and
I have planned to go to France for a couple
of days as a romantic getaway his own words, not mine,
just to spend some quality time together because we've both
been so busy with work. I was excited about the
trip and to spend some quality time with my boyfriend.
But then he drops the bombshell on me. He invited
one of his friends because apparently he's always wanted to

(15:12):
see friends, so my boyfriend thought he would be kind
and asked his friend to come along. So this was
a big shock to me, and I told my boyfriend
about my concerns. He told me that his friend has
already paid for his flight ticket, and he said that
he was planning on either changing our hotel room to
a room with two beds, or his friend would sleep
on the sofa. He did all of this without even

(15:32):
telling me a thing. I told my boyfriend that, quite frankly,
I don't want his friend to come and it was
supposed to be a romantic getaway. But he said that
his friend won't bother us and he'll do his own thing.
But I don't know. I just don't feel comfortable with it.
We argued for a bit more, with him saying that
he paid for most of the trip, so he feels
entitled to be able to bring his friend along. In

(15:53):
the end, I just got so fed up, and I
may be a bit dramatic, but I felt betrayed, so
I just told him I wouldn't be coming if his
friend was. He said, I was being ridiculous and I
should go since it's been paid for anyway, And I
was being overly dramatic, but this is how I feel.
He said, I was being manipulative and cruel for making
him choose between me and his friend. Am I the jerk?

(16:15):
Not the jerk? He can enjoy a romantic getaway with
his friend. It sounds like that's what he wants anyway.
He doesn't respect you. Keep that in mind going forward.
Am I the jerk? For extorting my relatives by threatening
to go to the police. Around four years ago, a
relative of mine, Billy, who was sixteen back then, took
a collector's car of mine without my knowledge for a

(16:37):
joy ride and he totaled it. After paying the court
fine and reparations for property destruction, Billy's parents did not
have the money to pay me back for the car.
The car was not truly replaceable, and on the collector's
market it would have easily gone for seven digits. Even
if you counted it as just a used car, it
would have been high five digits in the aftermarket. I

(16:57):
had insurance, but to collect I would have had I
had to file a police report. Billy's parents begged me
not to, as it would go on his record and
ruin his prospects for college. I agreed on the condition
that Billy or his parents start paying me back once
Billy reaches his majority twenty in our country. We agreed
on a price in the six digit range, but a
lot closer to the used car value than the collector's value.

(17:20):
It was about the price I paid for the car. Originally,
we drafted an agreement that both of Billy's parents, Billy himself,
and their legal witnesses all signed and sealed six months
ago Billy turned twenty. I waited a month for them
to reach out, but nothing. At month three, I sent
a polite request for payments to start as agreed, ignored.

(17:41):
Sent more messages at months four and five. No response.
I messaged them saying if they did not start making
good on what is owed, I would file a police report.
Statute of limitations for grand theft auto was thirty years
in this country, so there's no waiting this out. They
finally requested to talk. They tried to say that so
much time had gone by that they had forgotten about it,

(18:03):
and how we were family and I didn't need the money,
so could I just let it go. I wouldn't agree.
I'm not expecting significant monthly payments, but I do expect
to see effort to make things right. They then tried
to say how Billy had grad school aspirations overseas and
his younger sister was starting college this year and they
need the money. College doesn't cost nearly as much in

(18:23):
this country. I asked them when they could see themselves pain.
They only want to start payments after their daughter is
finished school, I refused. Billy can get a part time
job and start paying. Things will be tight for them,
but it's unlikely they won't be able to afford their
daughter's tuition. It's possible that it would affect Billy's grad
school plans, if these plans are real, which I'm not

(18:44):
sure I believe. Since then, they've been bad mouthing me
to that side of the family, saying that I'm extorted
money from them by threatening Billy's future. I've been getting
a stream of text from relatives who want to talk
with me. I don't see why I should act like
a good relative when this is the way that they are.
Am I the jerk? Not the jerk filed the police report?

(19:05):
Billy and his parents have no intention of ever paying
you what they owe you. Filed the police report and
collect the insurance. Billy is the one who messed off,
No reason you should pay for him. Am I the jerk?
For wearing an Iron Maiden T shirt to my first
meeting with my girlfriend's parents. I, twenty eight male, have
been dating my girlfriend, twenty three female for a few months.

(19:26):
Things have gone well. We get along well so far,
and I really care about her and I hope things
work out with us anyway. She recently invited me to
come over and have dinner with her parents at their home.
She still lives with them for now. We're getting more
serious and they wanted to meet me. If it's relevant,
Her parents are Indian immigrants to the US, and I
am white, so I thought it was a completely casual meeting,

(19:48):
and I wore an Iron Maiden T shirt. I do
happen to like the band, but that's not even why
I wore it. That's just how I dress, and that
shirt just happened to be clean. That day, I went
and met her parents and thought we had had a
good meeting. However, my girlfriend is not happy with me.
She feels as if me dressing in a T shirt
rather than a nicer button up shirt was bad enough,

(20:09):
but that wearing a shirt with skulls on it was,
in her words, just obnoxious. I honestly just dressed for
the meeting the way I usually do, and I didn't
even think about it. I think that if she had
certain standards, then she should have communicated them to me beforehand.
But she thinks that what I did was obviously stupid
and inappropriate and that I should have known better. Is
she right or is she being too critical? You're the

(20:33):
jerk because you're an adult. Meeting someone's parents generally isn't
an overly casual thing unless they specify that their parents
are casual as well. Surely you own a nicer shirt
than an Iron Maiden T shirt. Being an adult in all,
you're the jerk. Try to put a bit more thought
into your attire when meeting people for the first time,
especially a girlfriend's parents. She didn't need to communicate her standards.

(20:56):
You need to address your standards. Don't blame her for
your lack of them. It's all on you. I'm amazed
at the people acting like meeting the parents is a
one way street here, and that he's expected to be
one hundred percent deferential. If there was an expectation, it
should have been communicated to him, and in the absence
of that, it's perfectly valid for an adult to dress

(21:16):
however they feel comfortable. They're all adults. They don't get
to dictate how other adults dress, nor do they get
to dictate who she dates and if they do well.
I'd like to get that out in the open as
soon as possible. Personally, you did nothing wrong, Opie, and
the people insinuating that what you did was childish are
the ones, ironically being most childish. Adults don't whine about

(21:37):
what other adults they know are wearing. Better to set
the expectation that you don't dress up in formal wear
in casual settings, not the jerk. People judging you because
of your perfectly fine clothes are very shallow, not the jerk.
Can you even imagine if the boyfriend was mad at
the girlfriend for what she wore to meet his parents.

(21:58):
Another fine example of redd hipposocracy going crazy on the
guy because you're a dude. Am I the jerk for
trashing the gift my girlfriend got me? So Me, twenty
eight male, and my girlfriend, thirty female, have been together
for eight years and we've been living together for four years.
Girlfriend has always been the artsy type and always has
some personal project going on, but she has the tendency

(22:20):
to get lost in her own world. We celebrated my
birthday last weekend and she ended up getting me a
pencil sharpener. I don't use pencils, and the sharpener in
question didn't even fit your typical number two. It was
purely for colored pencils. I also don't color. When she
asked me if I liked it, I just quietly walked
outside our home and tossed it in the trash. She

(22:40):
was understandably upset and called me a jerk for doing that,
claiming that I could have at least tried it. Here's
the thing, She's been doing things like this ever since
we started living together. She's been gifting me things that
she likes and ultimately ends up using. For example, last year,
she got me a packet of Sailor moonstickers. I don't
even watch Sailor, and she ended up using them all.

(23:02):
She also gifted me in jewelry box one time. I
don't wear jewelry, so guess who's been using it all
this time? First world problems at its finest. So it's
been a few days and she's still upset with me
and has even got both of our parents to go
off on me for trashing the gift. She even admitted
she knew I would hate it and was planning on
using it after I calmed down in a few days,

(23:23):
a detail that she did share with others. But I'm
still getting name called. Am I really the jerk? At it?
Nearly every comment says we need to talk about this.
The thing is we have more than once. She admitted
she does this because she wants something, but decides to
gift it to me to say I tried. I asked
if I gave her a wish list, would that help,

(23:45):
and she said that she wouldn't even look at it. She,
on the other hand, does have a wish list which
I do get her stuff from, and some of that
stuff is actually expensive. Not the jerk, Seriously, she's buying
you gifts for herself. She makes a habit of this.
Have you turned it around on her yet? For the
next gift you give her, get her something you really

(24:05):
want and she won't want. When she gets upset about that,
explain that you thought that was how your relationship worked,
since she buys things she wants when you get a gift.
Sister in law and niece destroyed my plants, so I
banned them from my house. Years ago, I really got
into house plants and started to collect them. Over the years,
I've had up to seventy, but whittled my collection down

(24:28):
to about thirty five, just the ones I really love.
My niece Jenny, who's fourteen, has developed an interest in
plans and will come over and we will talk about them,
and she helps with propagation and repotting. I had to
go out of town for two weeks to take care
of some work stuff, so I asked sister in law
and Genny if they could plant sit for me. I
told Genny I would pay, but also give her a

(24:50):
few cuttings as a trade off. They agreed, and when
they came over, I gave a tour and explained the
care needed and also showed off a few prized plants.
Sister and la law asked how much a few of
them ran me and I did share. This didn't seem
weird because the family knows, and I've gotten some plants
as gifts. Well. I returned from my trip and was horrified.

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They watered and gave the right amount of light, but
they also decided to give a lot of my plants haircuts.
Big ones. My prized Sibu blue mother plant was destroyed
the climbing one too. My Mangela had been done the same.
My golden that I trained up the stairwell, my string
of pearls, hearts and ruby necklace all destroyed, my silver stripe.

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The worst was that my pink Princess Philo had been
reduced to two leaves, and my elbow is down to three.
I don't even think they got nudes necessarily. These plants
are expensive and prized. I basically broke down, and when
they came to meet me to give me back my key,
I screamed and screamed at them. Jenny started crying, saying
I said I would give her cuttings, so she thought

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it was okay. I screamed at her to go home
and get me what she stole for me and bring
it back now, because she knew I didn't mean she
could destroy my plans. Sister in law got between us
and said what's done is done. I said, no way,
you're returning everything, Jenny said, Mom already sold most of
them on marketplace. I lost it and just screamed and

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screamed at them until Jenny was crying and her mom
got in my face and told me I was having
a tantrum over plans. I told her to get out
of my house and don't ever come anywhere near me
or my home again. I called my brother, sister in
law's husband, and he was shocked and said that they
told him. I said it was all okay. He brought
me the stuff she hadn't sold yet and apologized. I

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told him I never ever want either of them in
the same room as me again. They're horrible, awful, irredeemable people,
and I hope they both get karmaf for what they've done.
He told me he gets that I'm upset, but I'm
taking it too far, and that family means not holding grudges.
I told him to leave and I cried for the
rest of the day. I'm posting because I need to

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know if my edict is over the top and if
I'm overreacting. So am I the jerk for telling them
that they are no longer welcome in my home and
not even wanting them in the same room. Not the jerk.
This wasn't a misunderstanding. Your sister in law knew exactly
what she was doing and making a profit of it.
I'm surprised your brother didn't realize something was a miss Opie.

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He said that he noticed they were carrying a lot
back home after coming over, but my niece said Auntie
said it was okay, over and over. I just wanted
a drill, not a police report, all right, So a
little backstory. This happened about four months ago. I had
just finished an eleven hour shift and needed to stop
at home depot to get a new drill. I just

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wanted to run in, buy it, run out, and get home.
Of course, it wasn't that easy. I had just gotten
to the drills and was looking over the options in
my price range when I hear it, excuse me, where
are the wax toilet rings? There are a few other
people in the area, so I ignore it, assuming there's
an employee nearby. It's important to add as I work

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in traffic control and just got off the job site.
I'm wearing high visibility pants, a high visibility vest, shirt
that says company named Traffic Control on the back, a
radio with a shoulder mic, and I have a Traffic
Control Technician certification card displayed on my vest. The employees
here wear orange aprons and normal clothes. Hello, do you
want to do your job or just starton? They're looking

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at tools. At this point I glanced around to see
what was going on. I assumed some customer was berating
an employee, which happens a lot at this location. Unfortunately,
I was surprised, however, to see some thirty year old
guy in a white buttoned down shirt and tie looking
at me like I'm stupid. Can I help you? I said,
still not sure of the situation, but that seemed to

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tick him off. Us you can you tell me where
the darn wax rings are? He shouted. At this point
it clicked in my head what was going on? I'm sorry, sir,
I started saying, I don't I don't want to hear
anything but an aisle number, he yelled, interrupting me and
drawing the attention of a few other shoppers. Honestly, how

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did you get this job being so stupid? I tried again,
I don't work. He cuts me off again. Oh my god,
why is this so hard? Where are the wax rings? Now?
I don't know why, but I got an idea in
my head that I thought would be amusing and at
the very least might get him away from me. I
pointed behind him at a random aisle where wax rings

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almost certainly warn't in and said, it's right there. Finally,
how stupid can you be? He yelled, huffing and storming off.
I thought that was the end of it. I figured
he had realized they're not in that aisle and then
find an actual employee to ask. Nope, he came right
back and started yelling that I don't even know how
to do my job, and that his best friend is

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the district manager and he'll have my job. During his yelling,
I noticed a few shoppers staring at us. I just
raised my hand, pointing to the same ile as before,
and said, they're right there. Look can't you see them?
How stupid can you be? I retorted, taking glee and
throwing the last part back at him, but he wasn't amused.
He smacked my hand down and shoved me, yelling something

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about stupid punk teenagers. That was a bad idea. I'm
not a skilled fighter or super strong or anything, but
I know when I can take someone. This guy clearly didn't.
I bopped him once in the nose, and he fell back,
falling on the ground hard. Someone called the police. This
guy just to talk to me, he yelled, as the
crowd nearby grew larger and larger. I was worried. Obviously

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it was in self defense, but I kept thinking that
I should have shoved him back and not bopped him.
I was worried that if he had fallen so hard
that he had been hurt, I could get in trouble.
A manager came over and asked what was going on.
He started screaming that this employee you talked to me
when I tried to ask for simple directions. Look what
he did. By this point, you can see that he's

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really hurt. Who did the manager said, puzzled in concerned,
looking around at the actual employees who were still on
their way to the commotion. Oh my god, are you
all this stupid hem? He screamed, pointing at me. Um,
he doesn't work here, sir, the manager said. The manager
got on the radio for more employees, ignoring the man's

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insistence that I do, and tells me to follow him.
He takes me to the security office and has me
wait for the police. Luckily, multiple customers and the cameras
saw my side of the story, and since the police
went to the injured person first to render aid, they
also interviewed witnesses over there before coming to me. When
they came in, I gave my sight of the story.

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The police say it contradicts his version of events and
that it matches the witness statements. They said the guy
was yelling that he wanted me arrested and locked up.
That's when the manager pulled up the footage which showed
him hit my hand and shoved me, and I only
bopped him after that and one time, also in my favor,
I was facing him with the drill shelf behind me
when he showed me, so I was somewhat cornered. They

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then asked if I wanted to press charges, and since
he wanted to get me arrested, I decided yeah, lock
him off. They arrested him and a few months later
I found out he pled guilty and avoided jail time,
but now he has an assault charge on his record.
I honestly wouldn't have pressed charges if it wasn't for
the fact that he wanted to press charges against me.
I hope he learned his lesson and doesn't treat anyone

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that way again, even if they're a home depot employee.
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