Random People Ask Internet If They're Right Or Wrong (20 items)

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  (#17) Making A Dad Joke

  From /u/DadJokeAITA:

  Note. My step-daughter, Madeline, was about a year old when I married her mother, Jessica. Madeline’s father died before she was born.

  Madeline is currently 15, and she’s rebelling for almost everything. She did something bad, so while picking her up, I set a punishment up for her. Then she said “You’re not my dad. I don’t have to follow you”. Honestly, I got a bit hurt from that. But I understand that she didn’t mean it, and that she’d probably change. I just replied “I’m still your legal guardian for the next 3 years, and as long as your in my house, you have to follow my rules.”

  That happened about 2 days ago. So our family was going grocery shopping, when Madeline said “I’m hungry. I need food.” I decide to be extremely cheeky and say “Hi Hungry, I’m not your dad.” My son just started to laugh uncontrollably. My daughter was just quiet with embarrassment. And my wife was berating me “Not to stoop down to her level.”

  I honestly thought it was a funny dad joke. And my son agrees. So am I the a**hole?
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  (#18) Allowing Two Teenagers To Be Spit On By A Llama

  From /u/oscholey1990:

  I work at a petting zoo here, and this weekend we had two teenager (around 16, boyfriend and girlfriend) who were antagonizing a llama.

  I told them "you might want to cut that out! Llamas spit in self-defense." But they kind of laughed my warning off.

  Now, I knew that llama spit was a whole lot worse than they probably thought it was. But I decided not to tell them about that. I figured if they persisted, I'd trust the llama to teach them a lesson.

  The llama was being patient. At one point it gave them a "warning spit" (just saliva) and they went "eww" and laughed about it and brushed it off, and then kept going at it.

  Finally, the llama had enough...and unleashed its green, defensive spit that llamas are known for. It got the girl square in the face. She dropped to her knees and started retching, and eventually threw up. Her boyfriend was gagging and ran away, towards the building that I was in.

  To make things worse for them, I didn't even let them come in to wash up in the petting zoo's only bathroom! It was a slow day, so I just locked the doors. I told them I didn't want that smell inside, and made them leave the farm without washing up.

  The girl's parents called me the next day and yelled at me saying that was too harsh. Maybe it was...I knew that if you don't wash out llama spit right away the smell sinks into your skin and becomes extremely hard to remove, but I wanted the lesson to sink in as well. 

  Am I the a**hole?
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  (#6) Refusing To Pay At A Fine Dining Restaurant

  From /u/GimmeBigSteak:

  So my girlfriend (she's 27 and I'm 28) wants to go to this fancy new restaurant in the city that she’s heard good things about. We get there and it seems like one of those hipster places but whatever, I’m hungry.

  I look at the menu and this place is crazy expensive - like every dish is more than $15-$20 and half the ingredients I’ve never heard of. I order the bison steak ($26) and my girlfriend orders some weird pasta, noki [sic] I think ($18). Very important, these were listed as ENTREES on the menu. Mind you with drinks plus tip this is going to come out to over $60 which is already ridiculous for dinner for two people.

  So anyway we order as we are starving. My steak arrives and I am shocked, it’s like 6 small pieces of sliced steak with some weird sauce on the side and a small handful of salad. I joke to the waiter “where’s the rest of my steak?” and he explains they serve smaller portions at this restaurant because they focus on getting the highest quality ingredients. I don’t care if this bison was blessed by the pope himself it’s absurd to charge that much for such a small bit of steak, it’s highway robbery. When I go to restaurants I expect an entree to fill me up and be enough for leftovers.

  I’m complaining to my girlfriend and she’s getting annoyed with me. Similar situation with her pasta it was like maybe 12 pieces of noki [sic] dressed up with some frou frou bullsh*t. Granted the food was pretty good but I can not get over how tiny these portions are. I’m a big guy and I like to eat, what can I say.

  When the waiter comes back I inform him we will not be paying for our meal, and that they are falsely advertising entrees that barely qualify as a light snack. My girlfriend is begging me to stop but that’s where we’re different, I don’t let businesses push me around and rip me off.

  A manager comes and apologizes but asks us to leave. I don’t end up paying as they realized I called them out on their bullsh*t. My girlfriend is silent the entire time on the way back. I'm still hungry so I drive through McDonald’s and get a burger, and when I did that she asked to be dropped off at her place. It’s now the next day and I’m starting to think I didn’t handle the situation as well as I could have (I could have probably just asked for a discount). My girlfriend hasn’t responded to my texts so now I’m starting to think I’m an a**hole.

  Am I the a**hole?
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  (#12) Staging A Kidnapping For My Girlfriend's Birthday

  From /u/escaperoomdisaster:

  Some Background is my fiancé, Becca is an escape room fanatic. We have taken vacations centered around escape rooms, she loves them that much. She is very good at them and so when my friend started an Escape Room business, he actually hired Becca to consult for him and his business is a hit.

  So he recently started this "Escape Van" service which is basically like a rolling party van/escape room. He asked me if Becca would like to try it out. I had one better since her birthday was yesterday, why don't we surprise her. He was totally on board. This is where things got a little dicey.

  So we went to see John Wick and when we walked out Beggy (my friend) and I agreed that his van would be outside "throw" us in and let us sample the escape puzzle on the way to his business. So this is exactly what happened, only one of his employees got a little rough with me so I sort of yelped as he was tossing me in the van. Becca lost it. Even though the guide started in his spiel "you are now captives of the XXX Co. Escape van, to get out you will need to solve five consecutive puzzles..." I mean you get the idea. Well Becca didn't hear any of it, she was just sobbing and when we started rolling it was even worse. We hit stop sign in the movie theater parking lot and Becca literally shoved the guy out of the way, opened the door to the van and took the f*ck off into the Dave and Busters next to the movie theater. She even dropped her phone in the street on the way out and stopped to pick it up an screamed at me "run you f*cking idiot!" So Dave and Busters security called 911 and within 2 minutes there were cop cars everywhere. It took us maybe five minutes to sort everything out and the cops basically screamed at me and Beggy (who was driving the van) that this was the stupidest thing he's ever heard of and he's lucky that its Saturday and they wont have time to deal with us.

  Becca is so furious with me. She hasn't spoken to me other than to say she was sleeping on the couch. She has given me the cold shoulder all morning. She has never been this mad and wont speak to me even if I ask her to please tell me whats wrong.

  To me, I had a good idea but the execution really sucked. Was I the a**hole here?
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  (#10) Asking A Neighbor To Cook For Me

  From /u/AwayPerformer:

  I'm a 31-year old-single guy who lives alone in an apartment complex. I've lived there for 6 years. My neighbor across the hall, a woman around my age or a little younger (I actually don't know her first name but I'll call her Katie) lives across the hall from me diagonally and has for about 2 years. We exchange hellos but aren't friendly, which is how it is with most of my neighbors.

  So I don't know how to cook, and due to losing one of my part time gigs, I don't have as much money for takeout anymore. I'm getting really sick of eating cheap fast food or box mac and cheese. I'm gaining weight and I never feel great.

  This is where Katie comes in. I can always smell her cooking in the hall and it always smells amazing (I know it isn't the other person at our end of our hall cause it's a single old man). I've even complimented it a few times. So I got the idea that I'd offer to give her some money each week to cook a little extra and bring it over to me (or I can pick it up from her!) at night. She's cooking anyway and then I'd have varied presumably delicious food.

  I asked her the next time I saw her and she looked surprised and said she couldn't because she was too busy (which didn't make sense cause she cooks almost every day but okay). The next time I saw her a few days later, I asked her if she was sure and upped the amount I was offering, and she said she was sure and that it was rude to ask me, and that she isn't a housekeeper for hire and I should get a housekeeper if that's what I want. She also called me 'a stranger' even though we have talked in the halls before.

  Overall she made me feel like a big jerk and really embarrassed for even asking her, and a little mad because she was acting like I was being creepy (I wasn't, trust me, she isn't my type). I think asking her to split cooking wasn't completely outlandish, since she cooks every day anyway and it wouldn't be hard to make a little more.

  So, am I the a**hole?
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  (#11) For Giving My Son The Cold Shoulder

  From /u/1988M:

  I’m 40M, my wife is 39F, son in 15.

  Yesterday when it was dinner time I called him to come downstairs few times. He didn’t answer me so I assumed that he didn’t hear me. I went upstairs and knocked on his door, he said he’d come downstairs in few minutes. After 15 minutes he still didn’t come downstairs so I walked in his room. I knocked first. He was obviously crying. I asked him what was wrong but he didn’t answer me so I didn’t push him more.

  I went downstairs and told my wife about it. She went upstairs to talk to him and stayed there for half an hour. She came back and brought him food upstairs. When I asked her what was wrong she said that it wasn’t anything important and told me to drop it. I got kind of upset because I want to know what was wrong and I’m his parent as well.

  I haven’t been fully ignoring them but I’ve been acting kinda distant since yesterday. My wife got mad at said that I was acting extremely immature.

  Am I the a**hole?

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