October 3, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister rhdder here, welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today.
Update my friend's catfished me in the worst way possible.
After that naval officer didn't want to live with enlisted
gets fired? And after that am I the jerk for
pulling my daughter from a field trip because her teacher
made her state with a kid she doesn't like. Now,
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for every thumbs up, this video gets one, Karen gets catfished.
You mean like you did when we first started talking.
Still can't believe to use a picture of Brad Pitt.
So please smash that light button and subscribe and turn
on notifications for new stories from Reddit every single day.
Update my friend's catfished me in the worst way possible. Recently,
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my friends and I went to a restaurant for dinner,
where I noticed that there was a cute waiter that
was serving us. I told my friends, not thinking much
of it. Throughout the whole dinner, they proceeded to embarrass
me about it, sometimes even around the waiter, even asking
if I could take a selfie with them. At the
end of the dinner, while waiting for a friend to
use the restroom, I noticed a friend of mine talking
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to the waiter one on one. I panicked, worried that
they'd embarrass me again, but worse, I left. The bill
was already paid for, and I waited outside for them.
They all came out, smiling and laughing, saying they told
the waiter that I thought he was cute, and they
got his number. I felt beyond embarrassed. Now. They put
his number in my phone and I said, oh well,
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and sent him a text. I wasn't expecting much to
come out of this, so I was shocked to see
him reply. We continued to talk throughout the night, even
after my friends and I parted ways, So the next
morning I was happy the waiter and I were having
a good conversation. The same morning, later at lunch, my
friend confessed that it wasn't the waiter that I was texting,
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it was my friend. My friend group was in on
it and even made a group chat to laugh at
me behind my back, leaking the messages and such. I
was so mortified. They told me in front of most
of our friend group. As I went to dinner with
only four of them, I angrily left, sending a message
to our discord server saying forget you, guys, and went
off on them. They thought I was upset at being catfished,
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and while I am somewhat upset, I was mainly upset
for being turned into a joke and laughed at behind
my back by people who I thought were my friends.
Two of them are my best friends. Some of them
have said that I'm overreacting, and some say that I'm
making it a bigger problem than it needs to be.
My family says I should drop them, but I don't
know what to do. Some people say I'm right for
being upset and I'm not overreacting. Am I the jerk?
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Not the jerk? Those people are not your friends. Drop
them like a bad habit and move on. Friends don't
make fun of you or go out of their way
to make you feel uncomfortable. You deserve better friends. I'm
sorry that they were so awful to you. Jokes are
only funny if everybody's laughing. Well, what do you think
is OP overreacting or not? Please let us know when
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something legit hurts you. It's not a joke. I drop
the those people as app naval officer didn't want to
live with enlisted gets fired. So this happened about one
and a half years ago, but I recently heard the
news on how far my revenge went. I was a
Navy enlisted service member and I was stationed in Yokosuka,
Japan for a few years before I got transferred back Stateside.
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I worked in the main hospital that cared for service
members and their beneficiaries. It's a small hospital, so everyone
knows everyone. Shortly after I left, I caught wind of
a new physician officer working in the radiology department. My
friends would say he's horrible to work with, but that's
nothing new. However, someone saw him print a letter and
he left it on his desk and took a picture
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of it and send it to me, his requesting to
move from enlisted housing to officer at it found out
it's not a private letter. He did actually send it
to housing, and most of housing is ran by enlisted members.
For context, military housing is available for those who are married,
have a family, or are qualified based on their rank
and depending on the military base itself. Typically, officer housing
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is much nicer than the enlisted, and Yokosuka housing is
basically all the same all around because it's overseas, but
most of the housing are apartments, and each apartment complex
is called a tower. Example Fuji Tower. There are nine
towers and two are for officers, since enlisted members outnumber
officers by allie. Now, one thing about the military stuff
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happens when getting stationed. It is the active duty members
responsibility to either apply for housing on or off base
before arriving, depending on what's allowed. If there is limited
space and you don't apply for housing on time, then
you get put wherever there is space. So our new
officer got placed in an enlisted tower. Mind you, enlisted
members have families of their own, and other officers have
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been placed in enlisted housing before without an issue. Here
are some quotes in his letter, and yes this guy
has a PhD. I have many valid objections to living
in a building of almost all enlisted and even many
lower enlisted. Being an officer, there is a lot of crime,
violent actions, and drinking that happens in enlisted housing. There
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are also assaults and other creeps. I have a good
looking family, a wife and two daughters. There are prime
targets to be victims for these enlisted deviant activities. My
family should be safe in housing that is with officers
officers are much more respectable, and these types of deviant
activities are incredibly rare compared to the deviant activities of
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enlisted being commonplace. Other officer families will not want to
visit us because our family lives on enlisted housing. My
children need to make friends with other officer children. My
wife needs to make friends with other officers wives. I
need to make friends with other officers. Forcing an officer
to live in a large apartment building with almost all
enlisted is unethical. You get the idea. So this guy
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basically looks down on all enlisted service members, assuming every
single one of us are some sort of criminals. The
kicker he was an enlisted army member before going to
office ours and civilian terms. Think of a manager that
discriminates and calls all of his subordinates criminals, violent, et cetera,
based on your job position, forgetting that some have a
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family and you know, maybe aren't any of those things.
And he not only has the authority to ruin your
work life, he can ruin your personal life, deny days off,
make you stay late, write you up if he doesn't
like you, and not letting you get promoted. Safe to
say everyone was upset and I have nothing to lose.
I was separating soon and figured out have some fun
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before I got out. I created a burner Facebook account
and posted the letter and the officer's pitcher on a
popular military enlisted group page. Within two days, it spread
like wildfire. But I wasn't done yet. The military has
something called challenge coins, think of trading cards, but custom
coins that come in many shapes and sizes. I designed
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one with his face and a big gesture in the back.
On top of that, I designed stickers to show how
proud US Deviants are. Other coin designs came from other
people as well, but so far I think mine was
more popular. I sold over seventy coins to the initial
person who originally sent me the pitcher at a huge
discounted price so that she can sell them for a
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profit herself. So the officer's face is everywhere because most
people will keep their coins displayed on their desk. No
matter where the officer went at work, he would see
his face on someone's desk, and since it didn't have
his name on the coin, can't officially say it's him.
I sold more stateside and even got some sent to Europe.
I made about three thousand dollars overall, which was nice.
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The story got the officer sent up to Captain's mast,
which is like Navy court. He tried to say his
wife was the one that wrote the letter, but no
one is buying it because her writing style is way worse.
She even tried to take the fall, but no one
believed her. They both ended up deleting all social media.
Due to this, he got served three UCMJ articles, which
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basically are his offenses, but there's more. When you're in
the military, you have a deadline on how long you
can be a certain rank. If you don't pick up,
then you're kicked out. And because he's new and God
served you see him jay articles, he won't be up
for promotion and therefore was involuntarily separated. Also, the officer
program he went through pays for his PhD. When the
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military pays for your PhD, you have to serve ten
years to pay them back. If you don't complete ten years,
you have to pay the military back with money instead
of time. So he lost his job and now he
has to pay back the military for his PhD. And
since it takes a while for the paperwork to have
him and his family sent back stateside. You can bed
he's socially suffered because no one worked with them. Am
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I the jerk for pulling my daughter from a field
trip because her teacher made her stay with a kid
she doesn't like. My daughter, Brynn, who's nine, is going
on a trip to a nearby water park with her
class next week. She loves water and has been talking
about it for months, so I was a bit thrown
off when she came home crying a few days ago
and told me she didn't want to go. I asked
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her why, and she wouldn't tell tell me because she
thought that I think she's a bad person. When I
finally coaxed it out of her, she said that her teacher,
Miss N, has forced her to be the buddy of
her classmate Ben for the entirety of the trip. She
was to ride the bus with Ben to and from
the trip, eat lunch with him, and go on all
the rides with him, instead of spending time with her friends.
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She then said nobody likes Ben because he whinds whenever
they have to do work, and picks his nose and
wipes buggers everywhere. I was horrified, not only because Miss
N had made Brynn do such a thing, but also
because she had made her believe she was a bad
person for not wanting to. Unfortunately, this wasn't my first
experience with miss Nn, as she frequently used my soft spoken,
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intelligent older daughter as a behavior buffer for the naughty
kids until I threatened a reporter to the superintendent. It's
clear to me that miss Inn is still too comfortable
with enforcing archaic rolls on her kids and forcing the
girls to do unpaid emotional labor for the sake of
the boys. I immediately sent miss In an email condemning
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her actions. She sent me back an email with a
bunch of bs that basically ended with if Brinn goes
on the trip, she has to be Ben's buddy. Fine.
I informed her Brinn would not be attending. Then I
immediately booked VIP tickets the same day her class was going,
so she could still go to the park and see
her friends. What happened next, I wasn't expecting. Brinn is
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quite popular, so I've gotten to know a lot of
the moms in her class. When I let them know
what miss Nn did, some of them were so horrified
that they also pulled their kids out of the trip.
In total, eight kids out of a class of twenty
are either not going or going with us. Today, I
got an email from miss N saying that because almost
half of the class isn't going, they either have to
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raise the cost for the other students or not go
at all. She practically begged me to let Bryn go
and tell all the other parents to let their kids go,
promising she wouldn't make Brnn do anything she didn't want to.
I told her she should have thought that before she
tried to make my daughter do her job. My husband
said I was being a bit petty and that miss
N clearly feels bad about what she did and I
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should just let brand go as I've already gotten my way.
He asked me if I really wanted to deprive kids
of what they've been waiting for all year. The thing is,
if this wasn't miss N's first offense, I probably would
have agreed. But she has a pattern of this type
of behavior and hopefully this will put a stop to it. Plus,
if she has to explain this to her superiors, I
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have receipts. Is my husband right or am I justified? Update?
Brynn was the only student assigned a buddy. The rest
of the students were free to do what they wanted.
Am I alone in suspecting that the teacher isn't so
much feeling bad about what she did, but faintly terrified
of either having to explain to her superiors why the
trip is suddenly in jeopardy or the backlash from other
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parents when it comes out why the trip that she
organized has fallen. Apart not to mention that if you've
booked VIP tickets, I'm going to guess that if you
did cam and tell your plans to suit her, you'd
end up paying twice over, once for the school tickets
and again for the VIP tickets you've already bought. Not
the jerk, I'd stick with a simple sorry, I've already
committed to and pay for my own arrangements for that date. Now.
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Brinn was the only student to sign day buddy. The
rest of the students were free to do what they wanted.
I mean, just this is the only reason you need
to not be the jerk. I can't believe anyone would
think that this is in any way acceptable. Teacher is
a piece of work, not the jerk. Stand your ground,
do not let her be used by the teacher. ETA.
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I would still write to the superintendent and anyone else
who might be able to prevent other kids from being
used this way. My husband lets our kids run wild
when his parents visit, and I've had enough. We live
three blocks away from my parents and they see our
kids almost every day. My husband's parents live a couple
of states away and only see the kids a few
times a year. It's easy when we go see them
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since we only visit when the kids are out of school,
but when they come see us, it's at random intervals
throughout the year. Not a problem. Really, they're excellent grandparents
with one small exception. They think our rules go out
the window when they visit. It's mean that we don't
make the kids their favorite food every day. Why can't
the kids watch TV with them before they do their
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chores and homework? Why do the kids have to be
in bed so early? It drives me crazy that I'm
the bad guy because my husband won't put his foot down,
so I have to do it. They came last week
on Monday. As soon as dinner was over. They wanted
the kids to pay attention to them. They wanted to
take the kids to see Avatar on a school night.
My husband allowed it lash straw. I told him that
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he knew that throwing the kids off their schedule did
me over, so I gave him the choice of either
enforcing our rules or I would He said he would
take care of it. Second night, there was a hockey
game on. He wanted to watch it with our son,
who loves hockey. I reminded my husband that our son
had chores to do and home work. He said it
was just a hockey game. I told the kids to
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get their stuff. I took them their clothes and their
homework to my parents' house. My mom and dad will
watch them and then take them to school in the morning.
I went back home and they were waiting for me.
I'm being controlling by denying them time with the grandkids.
I'm not the only person allowed to make decisions regarding
the kids. They came all this way to see them,
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and I'm being a jerk by keeping them on a schedule. Fine,
they're visiting for a couple of weeks. Wednesday, after I
picked up the kids from school and dropped them off
at home with my in laws. Then I went out
for the first time in ages. I told my husband
I would be out late and didn't want to wake anyone,
so I would be at my parents' house. Did the
same thing Thursday through today. My husband has been calling
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and texting and coming over to tell me that I
need to come home because the house is a disaster
because his parents won't do anything. They're on vacation and
they're there to see the kids, not to clean up.
The kids are having a fun time with no room rules,
and he has been contacted by the school because no
homework was turned in on Thursday or Friday. I didn't
even answer those texts. I said I would be back
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after his parents left or he enforced the rules. He
said I was taking it too far and that it
was affecting his work. Honestly, tough crap. Edit my son
just texted me about his gym clothes for today. I
guess he never put them on the hamper and they
didn't get washed. Now I'm wondering what else my husband
didn't get done. Edit. Two kids are nine and eleven.
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In law's visit four or five times a year for
at least a week. Not the jerk, and I seriously
applaud you. So many women take this kind of crap
and never have the guts to stand up for themselves.
Playing nice sucks. Husband and parents will most likely call
you difficult. They're upset the house is a mess. They
can clean it themselves. You're not the maid, and you
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were not put on this earth to ensure everyone has
a lovely time. But you you are the one who
has to take care of the aftermath. If your husband
and his parents can't understand that kids need routines and boundaries,
you're in for a heck of a ride. Hopefully you've
made it well known that you won't stand for that
type of crap. Op. The kids have chores, but they
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aren't doing them, and they're spending a lot of money
on delivery. Since I'm not there to cook and getting
the kids to prep I'm wondering how much food I'm
going to have to toss when I get home. I
feel you you're going to have to pick up the
pieces after all of this. They might not learn their lesson,
and you still have extra work to do. There's three adults,
can't one of them put together a meal. They're just
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being lazy and expecting you to do everything for them.
You are not the hired help. They should treat you
as such. I'd be fuming. Not the jerk. He wants
to let his parents have their way in your house.
That is not okay. You guys probably have a good
reason for the way you handle things. If he can't
understand that, then just stay with your folks whenever his visit.
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Although I do wonder what you mean by they are
excellent grandparents, they sound like entitled jerk boomers, but must
be younger op. They honestly love the kids and provide
them with some awesome experiences and gifts that are out
of our budget right now. They're putting money into their
education funds and a fund to help them get started
in life afterwards. They do a lot for us. I
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just hate that they throw off our schedules when they visit. Fine,
they are okay grandparents, but they sound like bad parents
and insufferable in laws. I would disagree with the okay
grandparents part. They're throwing the kids off their schedule actively
saying don't do homeworker chores, spend time with us instead.
That is not being a good grandparent. You telling your
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husband honestly tough crap is right, Not the jerk personally,
I relax the rules around stuff like snacks and TV
when grandparents are here, but I have the last word,
and I would be furious to be overruled. Shrugging off
the homework is unacceptable. Don't go home. Let your husband
learn how to be a pay You're the jerk. Parents
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who keep their kids on strict schedules all the time
are unnecessarily cruel. Like, Okay, having structure and all that
is fine, But when you won't let your kids just
enjoy some time with their grandparents a few times a year,
you seriously sound like a stickler. Don't be surprised when
hubby leaves you for a woman who knows how to
have fun. When I met my husband, he was still
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married to his ex at the time, who, just like you,
never wanted to have any fun and took everything way
too seriously. She always tried to boss him and their
son around. The more he told me about it at
work he was my boss at the time, the more
I reassured him that he deserved so much better than that,
because he did well. Now he has me and I
would never treat him the way she did when his
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parents come over. I made sure to be a good
host and we let our sons stay up late because
before we know it, his grandparents will be in heaven.
Maybe talk to your doctor about chill pills or something
at it. I've been called much worse names than home
Wrecker'll save your breath. The reason wealthy older men are
leaving their wives for younger women like myself is not
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just because they simply find us attractive, but more importantly,
it's because of how we make them feel respected and appreciated,
as opposed to their longtime wives who do nothing but
nag and disrespect them. If these older men just thought
we were hot, then sure they'd cheat with us. But
putting a ten thousand dollars ring on my finger was
the result of how I treated him like the king
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that he is, something his ex wife forgot how to
do over the years. The lady of the house insists.
About thirty or so years ago, I dropped out of
high school. My first job was as a truck jockey
for a bloke who owned his own removal truck and
had a delivery contract with a local chain of furniture stores.
The work was hard and days were usually pretty long.
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I have an old pace lip somewhere for an eighty
four hour week. But I was young, fit and healthy,
and the work saved me from needing a gym membership.
Plus the cash was really good for a sixteen year old.
One long, reasonably warm Saturday, we're heading to our last
delivery before going home. It was close to six pm
and we could still have a forty five to sixty
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minute drive home after, so the boss was in no
mood for messing around. The delivery was in Melbourne's wealthiest suburb,
lots of big houses and old money. Anyway, we rock
up at this place and the boss heaves a sigh
of relief. Massive double entry doors at the front. We
were delivering a three seater sofa bed. Things were heavy
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with the metal fold out bed inside, so anything that
made the delivery that little bit easier was seen as
a positive. As usual, the boss hops into the back
of the truck and starts unwrapping the load to get
it onto the tailgate while I go knock on the
door clipboard in hand, I ring the bell old fashioned,
turned the brass handle thing, and a butler opens the door.
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I see just over his shoulder a massive entry hall
with a big wide staircase leading up to the second story.
Awesome him, yeos me, we're here to deliver a sofa
bed for I check the clipboard, miss rich lady Heim
gesturing around to the right side of the house. Delivery
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entrances around the side. Me oh, okay. I trot around
to the side door, thinking it would be a straight
up delivery into a room near that door. I wait,
and he eventually opens the door per our sop. I
asked him to show me where the furniture is going
so I could map the route for the boss. Hey
gestures too, I'm genuinely not kidding. A spiral staircase. Hem
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up those stirs me up those stairs him, yeas me,
But I noticed there's a lot more room at the
front door, plus the bigger staircase there. Can we deliver
via that route instead? Him? The lady of the house
was just thought to be delivered via the rear staircase. Me. Really,
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there's no way we're getting that sofa bed up there
without hurting ourselves or the furniture or the house. Why
can't we deliver via the front Him? The lady of
the house simply will not permit it. Me, okay, I'll
go let my boss know By the time I get
back to the truck, the boss has the sofa sitting
on the tailgate ready for us to carry it in. Boss.
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Ready me, not quite. You're not gonna believe it, but
they want us to deliver via side entrance and up
a spiral staircase. Him the heck they do? Me yep,
old maid in this suit and ty said so, how
many times did you ask him? Me? Unsure why? Uh?
Couple wasn't sure I heard him right the first time,
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but he said, the customer won't allow it. Nah, bs
wait here. The boss strides up to the front door
and rings the bell, perhaps a little aggressively, butler opens it.
Words are exchanged. The boss gets pretty heated and demands
to see the customer. Missus, rich lady, missus, rich lady.
What's all this nonsense? Boss? Your fellow here said, we
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can't deliver through these doors and up that staircase behind you.
The other way is too narrow. We'll bust our backs
trying to get it up there. That's not my concern.
My concern is for the furniture to be delivered via
the side entrance. Boss. Nah, we're not doing that. Just
let us go this way. And we'll be out of
your hair in no time. I insist that you deliver
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the furniture in accordance with the terms of the contract.
Cute malicious compliance. The boss straightens up, squares his shoulders. Okay, sure,
no worries. We'll get it done as you said, in
accordance with the delivery contract. He walks back to me,
massive grin on his face and tells me to grab
the highlighter fluorescent marker from the cab. I go grab
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it and hand it to him. He highlights something on
the delivery docket on the clipboard, tosses it on to
the sofa, and gestures at me to grab my end.
I'm wondering what's about to go down, but I know
my boss well enough to know we aren't about to
carry this thing through a side door and up a
spiral staircase. As we get near the front doors, the
Boss tells me we're putting the sofa bed down. He
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grabs the clipboard and politely asks rich Lady to sign
for delivery. Rich Lady, I'm not signing anything yet. You
haven't delivered it where I want it, boss, Ah, but
we have now. Please read the section I've highlighted rich
lady reads it. Oh, well, that changes things through the
front doors would be fine, boss. Sorry, please read the
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second highlighted section. She reads that part, but I've changed
my mind, Boss. Sorry. As you can see, it says
that deliveries must be made the safest way possible without
risking injury to us, and if we still disagree after
three attempts at making delivery, the customer takes responsibility for
completing the delivery from the front of the premises. We
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asked you four times, so as you requested, I'm delivering
per the terms of the delivery contract that you signed.
She goes red. But now, am I supposed to get
this upstairs? Boss, I'm afraid that's no longer my problem. Ma'am.
Please sign the delivery doc so we can get out
of your hair. I took that as MI cue a
buzz off, pack up the wraps and straps and prep
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the truck for departure. We managed to hold in our
laughter until the end of the driveway. Am I the
jerk for not letting an elderly woman have my son's
seat on the bus? All right? So my son, who's seventeen,
has weekly therapy appointments that I take him to. Unfortunately,
my husband let our daughter borrow his car and then
had an emergency at work, so he had to use
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my car, so my son and I had to take
the bus. It was an ideal, but I'd rather the
bus than miss an appointment. While it isn't my place
to share why he goes to therapy, I will say
that he will often forget to eat. I usually make
sure he's fed, but due to the mess in the morning,
it slipped my mind. The bus wasn't too crowded, but
all the seats were taken. My son wasn't doing too well,
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and I could tell he was feeling dizzy from hunger
plus the bus, so the second someone got off their seat,
I set him down. I then tried to find a
chocolate bar I had in my bag. While this is happening,
I noticed an elderly woman and her adult daughter standing
beside us. I didn't pay much attention until the daughter
tapped me on the shoulder. She asked if my son
could move so that her elderly mother could have a seat.
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I felt really bad, I really did, but my son
was not doing great and standing would make it harder.
I had found the chocolate and he was eating it slowly.
But if he stood up right then I can assure
you that he would have feigned. I apologized to her
and explained that my son wasn't feeling well. She rolled
her eyes at me and said that she saw him
standing earlier and that he's a young, healthy teenager and
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he'll be fine. I apologized once again and told her
that he wasn't feeling well and that if he was,
then he himself would have offered her a seat. The
daughter told me to look at her mother, and I admit,
the poor woman looked really tired, but I couldn't. My
son had started to lean against me, so I told
the woman one last time that I was sorry and
to ask someone else. I then heard them both whispering
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and calling me an entitled jerk, And when we got
off the bus, a woman that got off with us
said that a teenager can handle standing more than an
elderly woman can, and that she hopes someone treats me
like that when I'm her age. My son was so
out of it, I don't think he even noticed or cared.
But I can't get this off of my mind. Am
I the jerk? Not the jerk. You handled it the
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same way I would have, politely explaining that your son
wasn't feeling well and needed to sit down. I'm sure
there were many other people they could have asked, and
many other people that could have offered, so I'm not
sure why they felt the need to pick on you
and your son not the jerk. Having an invisible illness
is difficult for just this very reason. I too get
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these crashes on occasion, and there's no choice to it.
If I don't sit down and get something in me
a gatorade, if nothing else, I will pass out. I've
been this way all my life, thin and chunky, and yes,
have been to billions of doctors over it slight exaggeration.
Ninety nine percent of the time I manage it well,
but sometimes forget to eat or think it's been a
lot less time since last eating than it has been.
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Am I the jerk for telling a go to move
his crying baby out of a quiet enclosure at the zoo?
I nineteen male visited the zoo today with my family
and we were checking out the Koalas, who I was
especially excited to see. You may not know this, but
Koalas apparently need over eighteen hours of sleep a day
to function or else they can get quite unhealthy quite quickly,
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and so any exhibit of them at the zoo will
often come with an expectation that you maintain a certain
level of silence while observing them. This zoo today was
no exception. You are made to go through two gates,
both of which have signage saying please be quiet, keep
the noise down, silence please, et cetera, and then the
doors to the Koala house itself has another sign please
keep noise levels to a minimum. With all those reminders,
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I figured people would get the memo. But as soon
as we entered the enclosure, which was a small room
indoors with a glass window looking into the Koala pen,
I spotted a couple in their early thirties with two
kids and a baby. I somewhat apprehensively tried to observe
the koalas they were so cute, and my little sins
was happy to see them. But then, like clockwork, the
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baby starts crying hardly. The baby's fault. It's a baby,
they cry. So I gave the dad of the family
the benefit of the doubt, thinking he'd either take the
baby out or calm her down. A few moments past,
the baby gets more annoyed and cries louder. The koalas
scurry away, hiding in their cubby holes, and others wake
up from their sleeping. I give the dad the look.
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I feel like everyone knows the look. We've either had
someone give it to us or given it to someone else.
I'm not sure i'd ever been at this end of it,
but I definitely received some looks. At times. Baby continues
to cry, I, being a socially awkward autistic teenager, grapple
with the idea that the dad might have missed my
giving him the look. So I do the classic. I
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shake my head and I give a little sigh. No change.
I throw another look his way, this time a little
more firm, But I feel like I overdid it. My
eyes are a little too intense, perhaps because suddenly the
dad is saying, and the voice of someone who's just
got an election. Sure, well, all right, mate, it's just
a baby, to which I reply with a gesture towards
the sign silence. Please. But it's a baby. He says, well,
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don't bring a baby in here. I reply, in a whisper.
My parents jump on me, thinking I'm out of line,
and the couple and their kids give me the meanest
of looks and leave the enclosure, leaving me feeling very tense.
What do we think? I feel like this is a
very common struggle in a public place where there aren't
always members of staff to enforce the rules. We want
to pick our battles, of course, but this family bringing
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their baby in spoiled my little sister's magical moment of
seeing a koala for the first time. Surely they should
have seen the signs and thought probably best not to
bring little Charlie in, or if they really wanted to
see the koalas the dad could have stayed outside with
the baby and the mum and the kids could have
gone in. Am I the jerk? Not the jerk? They
obviously were able to read the signs and they just
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thought that it didn't apply to them. I think you
did a great job. It was mostly nonverbal and dude
finally got the hint. But still try to make excuses.
It's a baby, Well, yes, but baby doesn't know when
and where is proper to be noisy Because it's a baby, therefore,
be a parent and also be mindful of other creatures,
humans or not. So you did have to let him
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know that the signs are there for a reason, and
you even whisper yelled, which showed that you were trying
to keep quiet out of respect. Librarians don't put up
with that in their domain. Koala shouldn't have to either,
but they can't speak, so they need an advocate. You
are a great Koala advocate. Great job, op, and you
can tell your parents. I said so. I'm a mom
of two, grandmother of three, and my kids would never
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have kept a crying baby in a quiet place because
I taught them manners. And I also took my crying
babies out of church, a wedding, and a theater, not
an infant. A five year old who insisted he was
old enough to go to the movies even though he
was really sensitive to noise. I told him he wouldn't
like it, and he was feeling really left out because
his friends went to the movies. So yeah, too loud,
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not a scary movie, but the noise was too much
and he got scared, so he cried and we left.
Because I knew that I was responsible for my little
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Update my friend's catfished me in the worst way possible.
After that naval officer didn't want to live with enlisted
gets fired? And after that am I the jerk for
pulling my daughter from a field trip because her teacher
made her state with a kid she doesn't like. Now,
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for every thumbs up, this video gets one, Karen gets catfished.
You mean like you did when we first started talking.
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Update my friend's catfished me in the worst way possible. Recently,
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my friends and I went to a restaurant for dinner,
where I noticed that there was a cute waiter that
was serving us. I told my friends, not thinking much
of it. Throughout the whole dinner, they proceeded to embarrass
me about it, sometimes even around the waiter, even asking
if I could take a selfie with them. At the
end of the dinner, while waiting for a friend to
use the restroom, I noticed a friend of mine talking
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to the waiter one on one. I panicked, worried that
they'd embarrass me again, but worse, I left. The bill
was already paid for, and I waited outside for them.
They all came out, smiling and laughing, saying they told
the waiter that I thought he was cute, and they
got his number. I felt beyond embarrassed. Now. They put
his number in my phone and I said, oh well,
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and sent him a text. I wasn't expecting much to
come out of this, so I was shocked to see
him reply. We continued to talk throughout the night, even
after my friends and I parted ways, So the next
morning I was happy the waiter and I were having
a good conversation. The same morning, later at lunch, my
friend confessed that it wasn't the waiter that I was texting,
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it was my friend. My friend group was in on
it and even made a group chat to laugh at
me behind my back, leaking the messages and such. I
was so mortified. They told me in front of most
of our friend group. As I went to dinner with
only four of them, I angrily left, sending a message
to our discord server saying forget you, guys, and went
off on them. They thought I was upset at being catfished,
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and while I am somewhat upset, I was mainly upset
for being turned into a joke and laughed at behind
my back by people who I thought were my friends.
Two of them are my best friends. Some of them
have said that I'm overreacting, and some say that I'm
making it a bigger problem than it needs to be.
My family says I should drop them, but I don't
know what to do. Some people say I'm right for
being upset and I'm not overreacting. Am I the jerk?
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Not the jerk? Those people are not your friends. Drop
them like a bad habit and move on. Friends don't
make fun of you or go out of their way
to make you feel uncomfortable. You deserve better friends. I'm
sorry that they were so awful to you. Jokes are
only funny if everybody's laughing. Well, what do you think
is OP overreacting or not? Please let us know when
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something legit hurts you. It's not a joke. I drop
the those people as app naval officer didn't want to
live with enlisted gets fired. So this happened about one
and a half years ago, but I recently heard the
news on how far my revenge went. I was a
Navy enlisted service member and I was stationed in Yokosuka,
Japan for a few years before I got transferred back Stateside.
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I worked in the main hospital that cared for service
members and their beneficiaries. It's a small hospital, so everyone
knows everyone. Shortly after I left, I caught wind of
a new physician officer working in the radiology department. My
friends would say he's horrible to work with, but that's
nothing new. However, someone saw him print a letter and
he left it on his desk and took a picture
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of it and send it to me, his requesting to
move from enlisted housing to officer at it found out
it's not a private letter. He did actually send it
to housing, and most of housing is ran by enlisted members.
For context, military housing is available for those who are married,
have a family, or are qualified based on their rank
and depending on the military base itself. Typically, officer housing
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is much nicer than the enlisted, and Yokosuka housing is
basically all the same all around because it's overseas, but
most of the housing are apartments, and each apartment complex
is called a tower. Example Fuji Tower. There are nine
towers and two are for officers, since enlisted members outnumber
officers by allie. Now, one thing about the military stuff
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happens when getting stationed. It is the active duty members
responsibility to either apply for housing on or off base
before arriving, depending on what's allowed. If there is limited
space and you don't apply for housing on time, then
you get put wherever there is space. So our new
officer got placed in an enlisted tower. Mind you, enlisted
members have families of their own, and other officers have
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been placed in enlisted housing before without an issue. Here
are some quotes in his letter, and yes this guy
has a PhD. I have many valid objections to living
in a building of almost all enlisted and even many
lower enlisted. Being an officer, there is a lot of crime,
violent actions, and drinking that happens in enlisted housing. There
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are also assaults and other creeps. I have a good
looking family, a wife and two daughters. There are prime
targets to be victims for these enlisted deviant activities. My
family should be safe in housing that is with officers
officers are much more respectable, and these types of deviant
activities are incredibly rare compared to the deviant activities of
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enlisted being commonplace. Other officer families will not want to
visit us because our family lives on enlisted housing. My
children need to make friends with other officer children. My
wife needs to make friends with other officers wives. I
need to make friends with other officers. Forcing an officer
to live in a large apartment building with almost all
enlisted is unethical. You get the idea. So this guy
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basically looks down on all enlisted service members, assuming every
single one of us are some sort of criminals. The
kicker he was an enlisted army member before going to
office ours and civilian terms. Think of a manager that
discriminates and calls all of his subordinates criminals, violent, et cetera,
based on your job position, forgetting that some have a
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family and you know, maybe aren't any of those things.
And he not only has the authority to ruin your
work life, he can ruin your personal life, deny days off,
make you stay late, write you up if he doesn't
like you, and not letting you get promoted. Safe to
say everyone was upset and I have nothing to lose.
I was separating soon and figured out have some fun
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before I got out. I created a burner Facebook account
and posted the letter and the officer's pitcher on a
popular military enlisted group page. Within two days, it spread
like wildfire. But I wasn't done yet. The military has
something called challenge coins, think of trading cards, but custom
coins that come in many shapes and sizes. I designed
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one with his face and a big gesture in the back.
On top of that, I designed stickers to show how
proud US Deviants are. Other coin designs came from other
people as well, but so far I think mine was
more popular. I sold over seventy coins to the initial
person who originally sent me the pitcher at a huge
discounted price so that she can sell them for a
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profit herself. So the officer's face is everywhere because most
people will keep their coins displayed on their desk. No
matter where the officer went at work, he would see
his face on someone's desk, and since it didn't have
his name on the coin, can't officially say it's him.
I sold more stateside and even got some sent to Europe.
I made about three thousand dollars overall, which was nice.
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The story got the officer sent up to Captain's mast,
which is like Navy court. He tried to say his
wife was the one that wrote the letter, but no
one is buying it because her writing style is way worse.
She even tried to take the fall, but no one
believed her. They both ended up deleting all social media.
Due to this, he got served three UCMJ articles, which
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basically are his offenses, but there's more. When you're in
the military, you have a deadline on how long you
can be a certain rank. If you don't pick up,
then you're kicked out. And because he's new and God
served you see him jay articles, he won't be up
for promotion and therefore was involuntarily separated. Also, the officer
program he went through pays for his PhD. When the
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military pays for your PhD, you have to serve ten
years to pay them back. If you don't complete ten years,
you have to pay the military back with money instead
of time. So he lost his job and now he
has to pay back the military for his PhD. And
since it takes a while for the paperwork to have
him and his family sent back stateside. You can bed
he's socially suffered because no one worked with them. Am
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I the jerk for pulling my daughter from a field
trip because her teacher made her stay with a kid
she doesn't like. My daughter, Brynn, who's nine, is going
on a trip to a nearby water park with her
class next week. She loves water and has been talking
about it for months, so I was a bit thrown
off when she came home crying a few days ago
and told me she didn't want to go. I asked
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her why, and she wouldn't tell tell me because she
thought that I think she's a bad person. When I
finally coaxed it out of her, she said that her teacher,
Miss N, has forced her to be the buddy of
her classmate Ben for the entirety of the trip. She
was to ride the bus with Ben to and from
the trip, eat lunch with him, and go on all
the rides with him, instead of spending time with her friends.
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She then said nobody likes Ben because he whinds whenever
they have to do work, and picks his nose and
wipes buggers everywhere. I was horrified, not only because Miss
N had made Brynn do such a thing, but also
because she had made her believe she was a bad
person for not wanting to. Unfortunately, this wasn't my first
experience with miss Nn, as she frequently used my soft spoken,
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intelligent older daughter as a behavior buffer for the naughty
kids until I threatened a reporter to the superintendent. It's
clear to me that miss Inn is still too comfortable
with enforcing archaic rolls on her kids and forcing the
girls to do unpaid emotional labor for the sake of
the boys. I immediately sent miss In an email condemning
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her actions. She sent me back an email with a
bunch of bs that basically ended with if Brinn goes
on the trip, she has to be Ben's buddy. Fine.
I informed her Brinn would not be attending. Then I
immediately booked VIP tickets the same day her class was going,
so she could still go to the park and see
her friends. What happened next, I wasn't expecting. Brinn is
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quite popular, so I've gotten to know a lot of
the moms in her class. When I let them know
what miss Nn did, some of them were so horrified
that they also pulled their kids out of the trip.
In total, eight kids out of a class of twenty
are either not going or going with us. Today, I
got an email from miss N saying that because almost
half of the class isn't going, they either have to
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raise the cost for the other students or not go
at all. She practically begged me to let Bryn go
and tell all the other parents to let their kids go,
promising she wouldn't make Brnn do anything she didn't want to.
I told her she should have thought that before she
tried to make my daughter do her job. My husband
said I was being a bit petty and that miss
N clearly feels bad about what she did and I
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should just let brand go as I've already gotten my way.
He asked me if I really wanted to deprive kids
of what they've been waiting for all year. The thing is,
if this wasn't miss N's first offense, I probably would
have agreed. But she has a pattern of this type
of behavior and hopefully this will put a stop to it. Plus,
if she has to explain this to her superiors, I
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have receipts. Is my husband right or am I justified? Update?
Brynn was the only student assigned a buddy. The rest
of the students were free to do what they wanted.
Am I alone in suspecting that the teacher isn't so
much feeling bad about what she did, but faintly terrified
of either having to explain to her superiors why the
trip is suddenly in jeopardy or the backlash from other
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parents when it comes out why the trip that she
organized has fallen. Apart not to mention that if you've
booked VIP tickets, I'm going to guess that if you
did cam and tell your plans to suit her, you'd
end up paying twice over, once for the school tickets
and again for the VIP tickets you've already bought. Not
the jerk, I'd stick with a simple sorry, I've already
committed to and pay for my own arrangements for that date. Now.
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Brinn was the only student to sign day buddy. The
rest of the students were free to do what they wanted.
I mean, just this is the only reason you need
to not be the jerk. I can't believe anyone would
think that this is in any way acceptable. Teacher is
a piece of work, not the jerk. Stand your ground,
do not let her be used by the teacher. ETA.
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I would still write to the superintendent and anyone else
who might be able to prevent other kids from being
used this way. My husband lets our kids run wild
when his parents visit, and I've had enough. We live
three blocks away from my parents and they see our
kids almost every day. My husband's parents live a couple
of states away and only see the kids a few
times a year. It's easy when we go see them
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since we only visit when the kids are out of school,
but when they come see us, it's at random intervals
throughout the year. Not a problem. Really, they're excellent grandparents
with one small exception. They think our rules go out
the window when they visit. It's mean that we don't
make the kids their favorite food every day. Why can't
the kids watch TV with them before they do their
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chores and homework? Why do the kids have to be
in bed so early? It drives me crazy that I'm
the bad guy because my husband won't put his foot down,
so I have to do it. They came last week
on Monday. As soon as dinner was over. They wanted
the kids to pay attention to them. They wanted to
take the kids to see Avatar on a school night.
My husband allowed it lash straw. I told him that
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he knew that throwing the kids off their schedule did
me over, so I gave him the choice of either
enforcing our rules or I would He said he would
take care of it. Second night, there was a hockey
game on. He wanted to watch it with our son,
who loves hockey. I reminded my husband that our son
had chores to do and home work. He said it
was just a hockey game. I told the kids to
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get their stuff. I took them their clothes and their
homework to my parents' house. My mom and dad will
watch them and then take them to school in the morning.
I went back home and they were waiting for me.
I'm being controlling by denying them time with the grandkids.
I'm not the only person allowed to make decisions regarding
the kids. They came all this way to see them,
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and I'm being a jerk by keeping them on a schedule. Fine,
they're visiting for a couple of weeks. Wednesday, after I
picked up the kids from school and dropped them off
at home with my in laws. Then I went out
for the first time in ages. I told my husband
I would be out late and didn't want to wake anyone,
so I would be at my parents' house. Did the
same thing Thursday through today. My husband has been calling
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and texting and coming over to tell me that I
need to come home because the house is a disaster
because his parents won't do anything. They're on vacation and
they're there to see the kids, not to clean up.
The kids are having a fun time with no room rules,
and he has been contacted by the school because no
homework was turned in on Thursday or Friday. I didn't
even answer those texts. I said I would be back
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after his parents left or he enforced the rules. He
said I was taking it too far and that it
was affecting his work. Honestly, tough crap. Edit my son
just texted me about his gym clothes for today. I
guess he never put them on the hamper and they
didn't get washed. Now I'm wondering what else my husband
didn't get done. Edit. Two kids are nine and eleven.
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In law's visit four or five times a year for
at least a week. Not the jerk, and I seriously
applaud you. So many women take this kind of crap
and never have the guts to stand up for themselves.
Playing nice sucks. Husband and parents will most likely call
you difficult. They're upset the house is a mess. They
can clean it themselves. You're not the maid, and you
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were not put on this earth to ensure everyone has
a lovely time. But you you are the one who
has to take care of the aftermath. If your husband
and his parents can't understand that kids need routines and boundaries,
you're in for a heck of a ride. Hopefully you've
made it well known that you won't stand for that
type of crap. Op. The kids have chores, but they
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aren't doing them, and they're spending a lot of money
on delivery. Since I'm not there to cook and getting
the kids to prep I'm wondering how much food I'm
going to have to toss when I get home. I
feel you you're going to have to pick up the
pieces after all of this. They might not learn their lesson,
and you still have extra work to do. There's three adults,
can't one of them put together a meal. They're just
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being lazy and expecting you to do everything for them.
You are not the hired help. They should treat you
as such. I'd be fuming. Not the jerk. He wants
to let his parents have their way in your house.
That is not okay. You guys probably have a good
reason for the way you handle things. If he can't
understand that, then just stay with your folks whenever his visit.
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Although I do wonder what you mean by they are
excellent grandparents, they sound like entitled jerk boomers, but must
be younger op. They honestly love the kids and provide
them with some awesome experiences and gifts that are out
of our budget right now. They're putting money into their
education funds and a fund to help them get started
in life afterwards. They do a lot for us. I
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just hate that they throw off our schedules when they visit. Fine,
they are okay grandparents, but they sound like bad parents
and insufferable in laws. I would disagree with the okay
grandparents part. They're throwing the kids off their schedule actively
saying don't do homeworker chores, spend time with us instead.
That is not being a good grandparent. You telling your
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husband honestly tough crap is right, Not the jerk personally,
I relax the rules around stuff like snacks and TV
when grandparents are here, but I have the last word,
and I would be furious to be overruled. Shrugging off
the homework is unacceptable. Don't go home. Let your husband
learn how to be a pay You're the jerk. Parents
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who keep their kids on strict schedules all the time
are unnecessarily cruel. Like, Okay, having structure and all that
is fine, But when you won't let your kids just
enjoy some time with their grandparents a few times a year,
you seriously sound like a stickler. Don't be surprised when
hubby leaves you for a woman who knows how to
have fun. When I met my husband, he was still
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married to his ex at the time, who, just like you,
never wanted to have any fun and took everything way
too seriously. She always tried to boss him and their
son around. The more he told me about it at
work he was my boss at the time, the more
I reassured him that he deserved so much better than that,
because he did well. Now he has me and I
would never treat him the way she did when his
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parents come over. I made sure to be a good
host and we let our sons stay up late because
before we know it, his grandparents will be in heaven.
Maybe talk to your doctor about chill pills or something
at it. I've been called much worse names than home
Wrecker'll save your breath. The reason wealthy older men are
leaving their wives for younger women like myself is not
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just because they simply find us attractive, but more importantly,
it's because of how we make them feel respected and appreciated,
as opposed to their longtime wives who do nothing but
nag and disrespect them. If these older men just thought
we were hot, then sure they'd cheat with us. But
putting a ten thousand dollars ring on my finger was
the result of how I treated him like the king
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that he is, something his ex wife forgot how to
do over the years. The lady of the house insists.
About thirty or so years ago, I dropped out of
high school. My first job was as a truck jockey
for a bloke who owned his own removal truck and
had a delivery contract with a local chain of furniture stores.
The work was hard and days were usually pretty long.
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I have an old pace lip somewhere for an eighty
four hour week. But I was young, fit and healthy,
and the work saved me from needing a gym membership.
Plus the cash was really good for a sixteen year old.
One long, reasonably warm Saturday, we're heading to our last
delivery before going home. It was close to six pm
and we could still have a forty five to sixty
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minute drive home after, so the boss was in no
mood for messing around. The delivery was in Melbourne's wealthiest suburb,
lots of big houses and old money. Anyway, we rock
up at this place and the boss heaves a sigh
of relief. Massive double entry doors at the front. We
were delivering a three seater sofa bed. Things were heavy
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with the metal fold out bed inside, so anything that
made the delivery that little bit easier was seen as
a positive. As usual, the boss hops into the back
of the truck and starts unwrapping the load to get
it onto the tailgate while I go knock on the
door clipboard in hand, I ring the bell old fashioned,
turned the brass handle thing, and a butler opens the door.
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I see just over his shoulder a massive entry hall
with a big wide staircase leading up to the second story.
Awesome him, yeos me, we're here to deliver a sofa
bed for I check the clipboard, miss rich lady Heim
gesturing around to the right side of the house. Delivery
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entrances around the side. Me oh, okay. I trot around
to the side door, thinking it would be a straight
up delivery into a room near that door. I wait,
and he eventually opens the door per our sop. I
asked him to show me where the furniture is going
so I could map the route for the boss. Hey
gestures too, I'm genuinely not kidding. A spiral staircase. Hem
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up those stirs me up those stairs him, yeas me,
But I noticed there's a lot more room at the
front door, plus the bigger staircase there. Can we deliver
via that route instead? Him? The lady of the house
was just thought to be delivered via the rear staircase. Me. Really,
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there's no way we're getting that sofa bed up there
without hurting ourselves or the furniture or the house. Why
can't we deliver via the front Him? The lady of
the house simply will not permit it. Me, okay, I'll
go let my boss know By the time I get
back to the truck, the boss has the sofa sitting
on the tailgate ready for us to carry it in. Boss.
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Ready me, not quite. You're not gonna believe it, but
they want us to deliver via side entrance and up
a spiral staircase. Him the heck they do? Me yep,
old maid in this suit and ty said so, how
many times did you ask him? Me? Unsure why? Uh?
Couple wasn't sure I heard him right the first time,
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but he said, the customer won't allow it. Nah, bs
wait here. The boss strides up to the front door
and rings the bell, perhaps a little aggressively, butler opens it.
Words are exchanged. The boss gets pretty heated and demands
to see the customer. Missus, rich lady, missus, rich lady.
What's all this nonsense? Boss? Your fellow here said, we
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can't deliver through these doors and up that staircase behind you.
The other way is too narrow. We'll bust our backs
trying to get it up there. That's not my concern.
My concern is for the furniture to be delivered via
the side entrance. Boss. Nah, we're not doing that. Just
let us go this way. And we'll be out of
your hair in no time. I insist that you deliver
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the furniture in accordance with the terms of the contract.
Cute malicious compliance. The boss straightens up, squares his shoulders. Okay, sure,
no worries. We'll get it done as you said, in
accordance with the delivery contract. He walks back to me,
massive grin on his face and tells me to grab
the highlighter fluorescent marker from the cab. I go grab
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it and hand it to him. He highlights something on
the delivery docket on the clipboard, tosses it on to
the sofa, and gestures at me to grab my end.
I'm wondering what's about to go down, but I know
my boss well enough to know we aren't about to
carry this thing through a side door and up a
spiral staircase. As we get near the front doors, the
Boss tells me we're putting the sofa bed down. He
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grabs the clipboard and politely asks rich Lady to sign
for delivery. Rich Lady, I'm not signing anything yet. You
haven't delivered it where I want it, boss, Ah, but
we have now. Please read the section I've highlighted rich
lady reads it. Oh, well, that changes things through the
front doors would be fine, boss. Sorry, please read the
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second highlighted section. She reads that part, but I've changed
my mind, Boss. Sorry. As you can see, it says
that deliveries must be made the safest way possible without
risking injury to us, and if we still disagree after
three attempts at making delivery, the customer takes responsibility for
completing the delivery from the front of the premises. We
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asked you four times, so as you requested, I'm delivering
per the terms of the delivery contract that you signed.
She goes red. But now, am I supposed to get
this upstairs? Boss, I'm afraid that's no longer my problem. Ma'am.
Please sign the delivery doc so we can get out
of your hair. I took that as MI cue a
buzz off, pack up the wraps and straps and prep
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the truck for departure. We managed to hold in our
laughter until the end of the driveway. Am I the
jerk for not letting an elderly woman have my son's
seat on the bus? All right? So my son, who's seventeen,
has weekly therapy appointments that I take him to. Unfortunately,
my husband let our daughter borrow his car and then
had an emergency at work, so he had to use
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my car, so my son and I had to take
the bus. It was an ideal, but I'd rather the
bus than miss an appointment. While it isn't my place
to share why he goes to therapy, I will say
that he will often forget to eat. I usually make
sure he's fed, but due to the mess in the morning,
it slipped my mind. The bus wasn't too crowded, but
all the seats were taken. My son wasn't doing too well,
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and I could tell he was feeling dizzy from hunger
plus the bus, so the second someone got off their seat,
I set him down. I then tried to find a
chocolate bar I had in my bag. While this is happening,
I noticed an elderly woman and her adult daughter standing
beside us. I didn't pay much attention until the daughter
tapped me on the shoulder. She asked if my son
could move so that her elderly mother could have a seat.
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I felt really bad, I really did, but my son
was not doing great and standing would make it harder.
I had found the chocolate and he was eating it slowly.
But if he stood up right then I can assure
you that he would have feigned. I apologized to her
and explained that my son wasn't feeling well. She rolled
her eyes at me and said that she saw him
standing earlier and that he's a young, healthy teenager and
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he'll be fine. I apologized once again and told her
that he wasn't feeling well and that if he was,
then he himself would have offered her a seat. The
daughter told me to look at her mother, and I admit,
the poor woman looked really tired, but I couldn't. My
son had started to lean against me, so I told
the woman one last time that I was sorry and
to ask someone else. I then heard them both whispering
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and calling me an entitled jerk, And when we got
off the bus, a woman that got off with us
said that a teenager can handle standing more than an
elderly woman can, and that she hopes someone treats me
like that when I'm her age. My son was so
out of it, I don't think he even noticed or cared.
But I can't get this off of my mind. Am
I the jerk? Not the jerk. You handled it the
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same way I would have, politely explaining that your son
wasn't feeling well and needed to sit down. I'm sure
there were many other people they could have asked, and
many other people that could have offered, so I'm not
sure why they felt the need to pick on you
and your son not the jerk. Having an invisible illness
is difficult for just this very reason. I too get
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these crashes on occasion, and there's no choice to it.
If I don't sit down and get something in me
a gatorade, if nothing else, I will pass out. I've
been this way all my life, thin and chunky, and yes,
have been to billions of doctors over it slight exaggeration.
Ninety nine percent of the time I manage it well,
but sometimes forget to eat or think it's been a
lot less time since last eating than it has been.
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Am I the jerk for telling a go to move
his crying baby out of a quiet enclosure at the zoo?
I nineteen male visited the zoo today with my family
and we were checking out the Koalas, who I was
especially excited to see. You may not know this, but
Koalas apparently need over eighteen hours of sleep a day
to function or else they can get quite unhealthy quite quickly,
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and so any exhibit of them at the zoo will
often come with an expectation that you maintain a certain
level of silence while observing them. This zoo today was
no exception. You are made to go through two gates,
both of which have signage saying please be quiet, keep
the noise down, silence please, et cetera, and then the
doors to the Koala house itself has another sign please
keep noise levels to a minimum. With all those reminders,
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I figured people would get the memo. But as soon
as we entered the enclosure, which was a small room
indoors with a glass window looking into the Koala pen,
I spotted a couple in their early thirties with two
kids and a baby. I somewhat apprehensively tried to observe
the koalas they were so cute, and my little sins
was happy to see them. But then, like clockwork, the
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baby starts crying hardly. The baby's fault. It's a baby,
they cry. So I gave the dad of the family
the benefit of the doubt, thinking he'd either take the
baby out or calm her down. A few moments past,
the baby gets more annoyed and cries louder. The koalas
scurry away, hiding in their cubby holes, and others wake
up from their sleeping. I give the dad the look.
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I feel like everyone knows the look. We've either had
someone give it to us or given it to someone else.
I'm not sure i'd ever been at this end of it,
but I definitely received some looks. At times. Baby continues
to cry, I, being a socially awkward autistic teenager, grapple
with the idea that the dad might have missed my
giving him the look. So I do the classic. I
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shake my head and I give a little sigh. No change.
I throw another look his way, this time a little
more firm, But I feel like I overdid it. My
eyes are a little too intense, perhaps because suddenly the
dad is saying, and the voice of someone who's just
got an election. Sure, well, all right, mate, it's just
a baby, to which I reply with a gesture towards
the sign silence. Please. But it's a baby. He says, well,
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don't bring a baby in here. I reply, in a whisper.
My parents jump on me, thinking I'm out of line,
and the couple and their kids give me the meanest
of looks and leave the enclosure, leaving me feeling very tense.
What do we think? I feel like this is a
very common struggle in a public place where there aren't
always members of staff to enforce the rules. We want
to pick our battles, of course, but this family bringing
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their baby in spoiled my little sister's magical moment of
seeing a koala for the first time. Surely they should
have seen the signs and thought probably best not to
bring little Charlie in, or if they really wanted to
see the koalas the dad could have stayed outside with
the baby and the mum and the kids could have
gone in. Am I the jerk? Not the jerk? They
obviously were able to read the signs and they just
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thought that it didn't apply to them. I think you
did a great job. It was mostly nonverbal and dude
finally got the hint. But still try to make excuses.
It's a baby, Well, yes, but baby doesn't know when
and where is proper to be noisy Because it's a baby, therefore,
be a parent and also be mindful of other creatures,
humans or not. So you did have to let him
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know that the signs are there for a reason, and
you even whisper yelled, which showed that you were trying
to keep quiet out of respect. Librarians don't put up
with that in their domain. Koala shouldn't have to either,
but they can't speak, so they need an advocate. You
are a great Koala advocate. Great job, op, and you
can tell your parents. I said so. I'm a mom
of two, grandmother of three, and my kids would never
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have kept a crying baby in a quiet place because
I taught them manners. And I also took my crying
babies out of church, a wedding, and a theater, not
an infant. A five year old who insisted he was
old enough to go to the movies even though he
was really sensitive to noise. I told him he wouldn't
like it, and he was feeling really left out because
his friends went to the movies. So yeah, too loud,
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not a scary movie, but the noise was too much
and he got scared, so he cried and we left.
Because I knew that I was responsible for my little
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