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Some people think the world owes them something.

Women who have served rude men in customer service will get a kick out of how this worker got back at this total jerk. See how she dealt with his nonsense.

Jerk gets exactly what he asked for.

Last night I worked a 14 top. They were all terrible people, jerkiest people I have ever come in contact with.

One guy sits down and orders a beer.

Little does he know he is no match for her.

He says, “Every time you come to the table I want you to have a beer for me.”

I thought he was probably just joking, so I leave and come back and he says, “Where is my beer? Did you really forget what I told you like 2 minutes ago? Wow.”

So I said, “OH! I am so sorry it won’t happen again.”

So, for the next 2 hours, EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I approached the table, I left a beer.

It tickled me to see his humiliation growing.

After about 45 minutes the beer began to pile up.

A friend of the jerk’s tried to take one that I put down, but I grabbed it and said, “Sorry sir, this is your friends beer. I would be happy to get one for you if you like.”

He ended up buying 25 beers at 8 dollars a pop with a 20% mandatory auto-grat on the table. He maybe drank 4.

I have never felt so good in my life. It doesn’t pay to be an arrogant, folks!

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Here is what people are talking about.

Some people really are like this.

True! Maybe a country with lax laws. I’d be worried he’d drive home.

Must feel great!

I’m Canadian so I hear most people thanking the bus driver. I do, too!

I hope she did, too!

Server faces condescending customer with a ridiculous demand, so she honors it with style.

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This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a video like this…

And it won’t be the last!

Because, admittedly, this is pretty darn confusing.

A woman named Kennedy took to TikTok and showed folks how her planned flight to Chicago turned out to be a completely different experience than the one she was prepared for.

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Kennedy booked a flight from South Bend, Indiana to Chicago…

Or so she thought…

So you can understand why she was surprised that she ended up on a bus instead of a plane for her trip.

The signs in the bus said, “Welcome aboard.”

What exactly was going on here…?

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This all seemed pretty confusing, and you can see why Kennedy chose to document this experience on TikTok.

The bus finally left the airport…

And then continued on down the highway…but there would be no flight this day.

In the caption, Kennedy wrote, “When you buy a flight from American Airlines but they board you on to a bus on the tarmac. So you think they’re driving you to the plane, but they just start driving to the destination.”

This is so odd!

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Check out the video.

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when you buy a flight from American Airlines but they board you on to a bus on the tarmac so you think they’re driving you to the plane but they just start driving to the destination #traveltok #americanairlines

♬ original sound – emomarcus96

Kennedy posted a follow-up video and shed some more light on this interesting situation.

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Replying to @SouthernTwisted for the record! #traveltok #magicschoolbus #planeride #americanairlines

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Now let’s see how viewers reacted.

This person made a funny comment.

Another viewer has been there.

And this individual chimed in.

You can see why someone would be annoyed by this…

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There are few things more relationship-ending than trying to enjoy a tense horror scene while a tiny dog launches itself across your face like it’s competing in the Puppy Olympics.

For this pregnant woman, what should’ve been simple quality time with her boyfriend had slowly turned into a recurring annoyance. Every time they sat down to watch their favorite horror series together, his high-energy chihuahua somehow became the main character. Tug-of-war on the bed, loud growling, nails digging into skin, stepping on remotes, blocking the screen—it was less “cozy TV night” and more “survive the chaos.”

Normally, she says she can tolerate the dog’s antics. But pregnancy, overstimulation, and the dog repeatedly peeing and pooping on her clothes had already pushed her patience to the limit. So when her boyfriend once again started roughhousing with the dog during the show instead of just watching with her, she snapped and accused him of ruining their quality time together.

AITA for being upset that my boyfriend is playing tug of war while we are watching a show together?

This dog is about 7 yr old and is a chihuahua so I don’t mind playing on the bed with the animals. But my issue is that it was during a show.

This show has 45 to an 1 maybe even 2 hour long episodes so we might as well be watching a movie.

And its a horror show, and ive been loving the show we’re on episode 6 or 7 and have been watching an episode each week or 2 weeks but it always ends in me turning off the show because he can never know boundaries on bringing the dog into the mix.

Dogs and TV shows just don’t mix.

If she was a quiet tug of war gal maybe no problem, but she throws herself all around the bed to tug the toy and remote gets pressed, volume gets turned off or she gets her nails dug into my skin as im the next best thing to a stool or chair.

I’m pregnant and im pretty sure I just have an aversion to her because she is high energy, very attention seeking and pissing and pooing on my clothes.

So im overstimulated.

Fair.

Today was just my breaking point, we ate while watching finished eating, still had the show on and actively watching. Then she wanted to play after being told to lay down.

Pretty sure she was just trying to get out of laying down on her bed. But he brought her up here to play, and she went straight to doing the running around to tug and her growling real loud, I gave up watching tv and laid down and played an idle game waiting for her to tire out.

Doing both just isn’t an option.

I told him it upset me he decided to rough house on the bed while we were watching something together and the excuse was whenever they played tug of war I usually also played with them. And I told him I’m not going to play with the animals while we are watching something together.

I dont even play with my cat when im watching something or even let him get on the bed because he is a big boy that blocks the tv. I got so overwhelmed because he started getting defensive and moody and i called him unsavory names.

Am I an AH for that? Am I wrong for getting upset over the tug of war during quality time together?

Reddit actually leaned more toward YTA, though there were a fair number of ESH votes mixed in. While many people understood that pregnancy, overstimulation, and an energetic dog can be an exhausting combination, commenters felt OP’s reaction became disproportionate to what was actually happening.

A lot of people pointed out that her boyfriend wasn’t intentionally trying to ruin quality timeh,and several commenters also noted that OP admitted she already has growing resentment toward the dog, which likely made the situation feel much bigger and more irritating in the moment than it otherwise would have.

Those voting ESH agreed the boyfriend probably could’ve been more mindful once it became obvious she was overwhelmed, but still felt the name-calling and intensity of the reaction escalated things unnecessarily.

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This person makes the point that she’s all her dog has.

This person wants to know why the dog isn’t potty trained by now.

And this person offers a YTA, albeit a “soft” one.

Some couples fight over cheating. Others fight because the dog keeps body-slamming the remote during demon scenes.

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In every corner of every country in the world, there are wonderful people. Kind, giving folk who want the best for others, and are more than happy to help out when required. Our planet is filled with them. So why does it seem like we always run into the less than savoury individuals? The ones who take what they want and expect others to bend to their own desires?

The truth is, it’s because the negative impact of these people really sticks in the memory. A person is nice? Sure you might remember them and the good feelings, you might even hold onto them as a friend, but you’re less likely to have that clinging sense of injustice or resentment toward them lodged somewhere in the back of your mind.

Someone is a really nasty piece of work – even, as is the case for the guy in this story – threatens someone you care about, who has done absolutely nothing wrong? It’s normal to want karma to catch up with them, and to see them suffer as they’ve made others suffer too. But it’s not often that the opportunity comes along for you to actually be the catalyst in that karmic response. So when the opportunity came for this guy to cause problems for the guy who hurt his friend, you bet he was going to take it.

Read on to find out what happened.

Threaten to beat up my roommate, enjoy failing your class

During my second year in college I lived with three friends in a house that had another four other guys living on the other side of the house.

The two sides of the house had a lot of mutual friends, as my roommates had known them from high school. So we had tons of parties together during the year and got along pretty good… until a few months before final exams.

Each side of the house had its own electric, water, and cable bills which we paid separately. I always handled our bills and paid them each month, but our water bill was actually in my roommate’s name – I’ll call him Brad.

So one day the biggest turd on the other side of the house, Liam, who handled their bills, walked into our house when I wasn’t there and confronted little Brad and yelled at him saying we owed him over $500.

Yikes! Let’s see how he came up with this number.

Apparently, their water bill each month was about $125 and ours was $40-$50. Liam thought there had to be a mistake in the billing so we should split the bills down the middle.

After I was told about this confrontation, I contacted the water company and asked about the billing. I was told over the phone the bills were specifically split up to each side of the house but a person would come out to check the water meters.

The next day a technician stopped by and looked at the meters to make sure they were operating correctly and that they were billing to the separate sides of the house. He confirmed there wasn’t an issue with the meters or billing and basically said they are probably using more water – end of story.

I told my roommates about this, but because of my schedule I didn’t see Liam for about a week. During that time he confronted little Brad a couple more times. Brad told him about the water company’s position but again he was yelled at, inside our own house, and was again told that we needed to split the bills with them.

Read on to find out what happened when this guy finally came face to face with Liam.

Then the weekend comes. My roommates and I head to a house party hosted by some mutual friends. At some point during the party I was in the front yard when a friend runs up to me and says Liam is trying to fight little Brad.

We ran to the backyard, and through about fifty people I could see Liam, with his roommates behind him, in the middle of the circle pushing Brad, yelling that he owes him money, and him throwing him onto a beer pong table where he held him down saying he was going to beat Brad’s ***.

I nearly lost my mind as I saw this and immediately grab Liam, said a few choice things, and shoved him away.

I wanted to do more but it wasn’t worth it… yet.

Eventually though, circumstances brought this guy and Liam together again.

So Liam and I actually had a class together. We weren’t friends, never sat together, and since the whole water bill incident we never even looked at each other in the 500 person lecture. He always sat with one of his roommates and I sat with one of my best friends, Rose.

As the water bill fight somewhat subsided and the final exam got near, Liam and his roommate started to act more civil and would even make small talk to Rose and I in the hall about the final that was worth 75% of the grade, topics to study, blah blah blah. They knew Rose and I had As in the class.

It wasn’t a very difficult class but I enjoyed it and actually studied quite a bit. I knew I’d probably get an A and maybe I had let Rose cheat off me on the first test.

I told Rose I had a feeling Liam and his roommate were up to something since they were being so nice and that I expected them to try and cheat off us. So I came up with a plan if they tried.

Read on to find out how he hatched this plan.

Now the format of the test is important. It was a packet of questions with the answers “A, B, C, D” listed vertically – and then you transfer your answers to a bubble scantron, which is another sheet of paper that gets put through a machine (not sure how familiar people are with it).

With this format I told Rose that I would circle an answer, she would look over and circle the same answer with a big circle, ensuring that anyone looking could see. We would do this for the entire 100 question final before marking our answers on the scantron.

The key to the revenge plan was that the actual answer was always going to be the answer directly below the circled answer. So if we circled A, the answer we put on the scantron was B. If the circle answer is D, the answer we put is A.

For a few days I kind of thought I was being weird and crazy to come up with this plan because there was no way this guy actually thought he would cheat – especially as I was blinded by anger.

Let’s see what happened when the day of the final exam actually came around.

Either way, when the day of the final exam came we got to the room early and I sat on the far right seat of a row with Rose to my left. Guess who strolls in and decides to sit next to us for the first time all year after he threatened to beat up my best friend a month before… oh yeah, Liam.

The dude had no shame and snuggled right in the seat next to Rose with his roommate next to him. Rose and I could barely believe it and had to use some serious composure before the test started.

The two of us operated like a well-oiled machine – we circled our ‘answers’ large, and at the end we went back through and marked the correct answers onto the scantron.

During the test we could both see Liam and his roommate leaning and copying our circled answers. Unreal.

And it was only later in the year that they finally found out the effects of their clever plan.

Fast forward to the summer break and Liam’s roommate came over to our side of the house when he saw Rose was there was with me. He opened a beer and chatted for a bit before he finally got to what we were waiting for, “So how did you guys do on that test?”

I remember looking at Rose and saying something like, “I don’t remember exactly, but I know I ended up with an ‘A’ in the class” and she chimes in saying, “Yeah, that sounds about right because I got a 92 on the test”.

The look on his face told us everything we needed to know and he mumbled out, “REALLY? Liam and I both failed and have to take the class again…”

What goes around comes around, and Liam really got his comeuppance here.

The absolute audacity to try to beat up someone’s friend – and then proceed to try to cheat off them on a test?

This guy has no shame whatsoever.

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Let’s see what folks on Reddit made of this.

This person thought the plan was perfect.

While others had had similar experiences.

Meanwhile, this Redditor implied that the fact that Liam didn’t catch on shows just how stupid he really was.

Tests really do suck for some people, but at least they allow every person to get the grade they deserve. If you’ve worked hard and studied for the subject, you should get a grade representative of this. Slacked off and relied on other people to do the work for you? You deserve to get a grade that shows how little you cared.

Of course, when you cheat on a test, your grade is reflective of another person’s hard work instead, and this really isn’t fair. The other person worked hard for that grade, so why should you benefit when you didn’t bother? That was the attitude of the person in this story as soon as he suspected Liam’s real motive for suddenly being nice after the water bill drama, and his execution of this plan was absolutely perfect.

Not only did the guy fail the class and get made to retake it, he also got to feel some of the negative karma for how he treated Brad. Because if you’re going to bully someone, don’t expect their friends to come to your rescue. This was a lesson that he needed to learn.

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Imagine living next to a neighbor who has a lot of cars and seems to think where he parks his cars is more important than where you park yours. Would you be willing to let him take your favorite parking spot, or would you talk to him about it and ask him to park somewhere else?

In this story, one woman is annoyed that her neighbor is parking his car in such a way that the car is taking up space that is big enough for two cars if he’d only move his car over a bit. She wants to confront the neighbor about the issue, but her fahter-in-law, who also lives with her and her partner, thinks it’s better not to say anything about it to the neighbor since it would only start drama.

Personally, I think the neighbor is the one starting the drama, but that’s just me. Keep reading to see if you think the father-in-law is right or if it’s better to speak up.

AIO for being annoyed about my neighbour ‘stealing my parking spot’

I (22F) live with my partner (24M) and his dad (54M).

For some context, we live in a small cottage down a private lane.

We often parked our cars against the house out front, however we do have a fairly large backyard with gates so we can put cars in the back. This is usually where FIL parks his work van.

The gates are metal, loud and heavy.

She changed where she parks.

I started parking out front of the house when we managed to move bricks as I go out minimum once a day but often twice.

It was a pain to open and close the gates constantly and as I work long days in hospitals some days im opening them at 6am and waking up all the houses around us.

The neighbors have a lot of cars.

Anyway, my neighbour (B) has a large house thats attached onto ours (semi-detached houses) that has a 5 car driveway and 2 car garage.

On a daily basis there are only ever 2 cars on the driveway.

A couple weeks ago I came home to them parking a car where I would park my car – which would typically be fine as its a place you can park 2 cars especially as mine is a very small car.

However they parked in a way that I couldnt fit my car in.

It gets worse.

They didnt move for 2 weeks.

I came home from work and noticed theyd gone so parked back in my spot, except leaving some extra room behind me as a couple months ago I had been blocked in by them.

The next morning they had parked up to my bumper – no worries I could still get in and out.

Well for nearly a week this has been the case, until I went out for an hour and got home to see they had moved their car back so that I couldnt park there, they hadnt left as its a muddy spot we park on and there were no tyre tracks from them – and they had just moved to block my parking spot.

She’s pretty annoyed about this situation.

I told my FIL that if they dont move i’ll just ask them to move forward a little so there was enough room for two cars as per usual.

But he insists that I would cause an unnecessary argument and I should just suck it up and continue to park in the back as I used to.

I feel like it shouldnt cause an argument asking them to move forwards as they know they are taking up two spaces and I have to admit ive been quite annoyed at this today as I feel like it was really petty to move backwards and stop me from parking there. AIO?

She had the perfect place to park until the neighbors blocked her. I’d be annoyed too!

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Let’s see what Reddit suggests.

I agree.

Or she could park at their house! LOL

Here’s a petty suggestion.

This person suggets talking to the neighbor.

As long as she’s calm and polite, there’s nothing wrong with talking to the neighbor about the parking spot. She could simply explain why she likes to park there and kindly ask if they could park in a way that two cars can fit. If she doesn’t act like a Karen about it, there’s nothing wrong with calling the neighbor out on being a parking spot hog.

I’m not sure why the FIL is so hesitant to approach the neighbor, but just because he’s a doormat doesn’t mean she has to be. Bad advice is just that. Bad advice. She shouldn’t have to deal with the gate everyday just because her neighbor is inconsiderate.

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It all comes down to communication, folks…

That goes for friendships, business arrangements…and especially romantic relationships.

If you’ve ever been involved with someone who wasn’t too great in this department, you know how frustrating it can be to try to get any kind of information or emotion out of them.

And, the older you get, the less tolerance you have for being with someone who isn’t going to be straight with you and tell it like it is.

A woman wrote the story you’re about to read and she got real about how she’s not too thrilled with her current relationship and she wants more out of this guy…

Get all the details below and see if you agree with her, or if you think she’s taking things too far.

AITA for wanting more out of a newer relationship?

“I, 22 F, have some issues with a guy I’m “dating” (we never made anything official but we are both only seeing each-other so i consider it dating personally) M 26, and the main issue is communication

So we’ve known each other for a while but didn’t start dating until December of last year. Things were great!

He made time for me whenever we could and we kept everything open and honest.

It’s a tale as old as time itself…and most of us have been there.

But I did end things with him once before because of, you guessed it, his communication skills.

We had plans one day and we talked earlier that day and all of a sudden I don’t hear anything from him. I called him, texted him, just blew up his phone and nothing. I was heartbroken since I have such bad luck with love and thought he was finally something good.

Nobody likes a liar!

He contacted me 5 days later saying he got sick with the stomach flu. I was angry since in this day and age, theres no way you never saw my messages AND weren’t on your phone at least once when being sick. A quick text would’ve worked but he didn’t so I ended things back in late January.

He ends up coming back right around March 1 and he kept saying how sorry he was and wanted us to try again. So I give him a chance BUT I made a lot of things clear to him but especially communication. He agreed and said he would make it up to me.

It’s frustrating to be caught in a cycle like this…

Fast forward, hasn’t done anything to make it right but mainly, communication is bad again. We made plans a few days ago and i told him to come to my place at 3:30. He ends up not showing up so I called him thinking he was late since he lives 20 minutes away.

Turns out he decided to go to the gym instead and said he would see me later. He ends up texting me later he’s too sick to come over that night (which he was actually sick I know that part was true but why the gym, LOL).

I never addressed that 3:30 part but now I regret it since thinking about it now makes me so upset. I also realized the main reason we even talk is because I always reach out, not really him at all which makes me even more upset.

Now why would I be a jerk?

Maybe she’s pushing a bit too hard and scaring this guy away?

Well this may be gaslighting, but people have told me in the past I expect too much if people way too soon and that i can tend to be really clingy. Since we haven’t been a thing long, maybe I’m jumping to conclusions and getting too mad for no reason.

And he has mentioned in the past we works a lot (7 am-8 pm, Mon-Fri) so maybe I’m not being very understanding of his schedule? He also doesn’t really go out in general since he gets so busy.

I just want to make sure when I discuss this I have a good mindset on it instead of just being emotional since thats also a bad trait of mine.

If anybody has any extra advice or ways to actually solve this or if this is even worth solving pls let me know! I’m open to anything.”

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Readers shared their thoughts.

This person weighed in.

Another individual said she’s NTA.

And this Reddit user said they both SUCK.

Life is short, and no one wants to spend their personal life with someone who takes more than they give and who isn’t straightforward when it comes to sharing their thoughts, feelings, and opinions.

Dealing with someone like that can be endlessly frustrating and, in the long run, will only lead to serious problems as time goes on.

Be with someone you truly connect with and who makes you feel worthy!

Can you really blame her for wanting better communication with this guy?

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Weddings are so stressful without all the drama that family members add to it. It would be nice if parents could just respect their children’s decisions when it comes to what they want to do at their wedding, but that’s not always the case.

Imagine growing up without ever knowing your dad. When it came to your wedding day, who would you choose to have walk you down the aisle?

In this story, one woman is in this situation, and she has two options. One is her uncle, and that’s her mom’s choice. The other is a former boss who is almost like an adoptive father. He treats her like family and is even paying for part of her wedding.

She wants the man who is a father figure in her life to walk her down the aisle, but that is causing a lot of drama with her mom. Now, she’s stuck wondering whether to choose family or her heart.

Keep reading for the full story.

Mom won’t let my adoptive dad to walk me down the aisle

Me (30f) am getting married next May, I have a small bio family of just mom (54), younger brother, an uncle, his wife and a cousin

Mom had me and bro with total strangers (hey, no judging!) so we never got to meet our dads.

I started working when I was 16 for foreigner engineer Theo (50m) and his family, and I love them to bits.

Apparently, they love her too.

Somewhere around my early 20s, Theo decided I was no longer an employee, but part of his family. He insisted on me calling him “dad”, and I became just another sibling to his children.

I am even written down on his will, even though I now work somewhere else. He has been an important piece of my life and Fiancee (32m) just treats him like an actual FIL

Mom, however, dislikes Theo. She married her long term bf John when I was 14, but I never really saw him as a fatherly figure.

She was truly offended when all of a sudden he became my “dad” but I wouldn’t call John other than his name, or would call John’s children my siblings.

This is sad.

Sadly, John passed away from Covid in 2020. Mom was heartbroken, forbid me from talking about Theo in her presence because “that man is a creep and not your actual dad”, and automatically decided it should be my uncle who ought to walk me down the aisle on my wedding since I have no father.

I honestly thought she would get over it, but ever since my wedding planning started, she has been ignoring/changing my plans regarding Theo and his family.

She tried to sabotage their invitations from being sent, she refuses to communicate with that side of the family even though Theo is paying a great deal of the wedding, since he promised to contribute a bit for all of his children’s weddings, me being the first one to get married, and she is insisting on my uncle to be the one walking me down the aisle, although uncle clearly understands that is not what I want, and also considers Theo some kind of extended family.

She’s not sure what to do.

Fiancee’s family has tried to reason with mom, but she always ends up crying, remembering her dead husband, and telling me how awful I am of not thinking of her feelings for the wedding

So, Reddit, am I that really terrible?

Uninviting her is not an option, I want her there, but I also want this man who is not my father but treats me as his child to be there

It’s her wedding! She should do what she wants.

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Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

Here’s a vote for Theo.

This is a good point.

It’s her decision.

Everyone knows she gets to decide, not her mom.

While it’s sweet that she feels bad about not agreeing with her mom on this decision, it is still her decision, not her mom’s decision. I mean, if Theo is even paying for the wedding, he truly is family. And, if the uncle doesn’t mind, why should the mom mind?

Weddings would be so much less stressful to plan if the bride and groom could make decisions without family members trying to make them feel guilty about these decisions. It’s not being a bridezilla to decide who you want to walk you down the aisle.

It’s sweet that Theo has taken her in as a part of his family. Considering she doesn’t have another father figure in her life, that’s really a wonderful thing for him to do.

I hope her wedding day is everything she wants it to be and that she doesn’t let her mother’s drama bring her down or cause her to change her mind about what she really wants.

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There is a specific kind of audacity that comes with leaving a sick, elderly dog behind when you move out and then refusing every option offered to fix it.

In this story, a couple relocated to their own place and left their ten-year-old dog who was riddled with health problems, from doggy dementia to ear mites.

Due to their complete lack of accountability, the woman’s elderly mother was forced to step in to care for the dog. But as another sibling watched the heavy toll this was taking on his mother, he decided this couple had a choice to make.

He wasn’t going to let this dog threaten his mother’s safety any longer.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA for asking my sister and brother-in-law to take care of their dog or remove it from my elderly mother’s property?

My BIL got my sister a dog before they had kids.

They didn’t potty train him very well, and he has accidents inside the home. He also barks at everything and even sometimes snaps.

The dog is about 10 years old now, and they have 2 kids.

Lately, his mom has gotten on his sister and her husband about the handling of their pet.

They brought their dog with them when they moved in with my mom so they could save money. They just moved out to their own apartment.

My mom has asked them multiple times to take their dog with them, and they refused.

The dog is stressing her out.

His sister and her husband aren’t exactly the most responsible pet owners.

They haven’t given him shots in several years and refuse to take him to the vet because “they barely have money for their kids.”

My mom, who lives just on social security, takes really good care of her own dog.

I’ve been seeing how the dog stresses my mom out.

But taking care of this unruly dog is no job for an elderly woman.

She’s cleaning his mess several times a day, and she herself is on a walker.

She is a fall risk, and it is very possible that with her eyesight she could slip and fall if she doesn’t see the pee.

Plus, it’s really not fair to the dog.

As a sibling, he’s happy to step in, but his sister doesn’t seem to want the help.

I’d gladly loan them the money to get him care — I live out of state, or I’d take care of it myself.

I am really shocked my sister is doing and allowing this.

I told her she needed to take better care of her dog the last time I was in town, 3.5 months ago, and she dismissed me.

Finally, the couple acknowledged something needed to be done.

About 6 days ago, I texted my BIL — the decision maker of the two — that they needed to address the dog.

I said they needed to decide between one of three options.

One: take the dog to their house and figure out the logistics like other dog-owning families do.

Two: sign and abide by terms and conditions my mom set for the dog to remain there for the sake of her grandson.

The terms were basic healthcare and preventative flea meds provided for the dog, replacement of fence pickets to keep the dog contained when it’s out in her backyard, help two to three times a week to mop her floor, and pay for his food.

Three: put him down if they’re unwilling to care for him.

None of these options seemed like good ones, but the dilemma still remained.

The dog has dementia and paces because he doesn’t know what to do.

Taking him to a shelter would be extra cruel because he’d be even more scared — the dog doesn’t deserve that.

I gave them a deadline to make a choice.

Finally, the sibling is forced to get tough.

They refused my mom’s terms and conditions, and they refused to take their dog.

I am now letting them know they have 7 days to remove the dog from my mom’s property, or I will call animal control and report that they abandoned their dog on my elderly mom’s property — which is a Class A misdemeanor and up to a $4,000 fine where my mom lives.

AITA for making them take care of their dog?

This couple has left the rest of the family no other choice.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about siblings who treat every social outing like a weird competition.

What did Reddit have to say?

The real loser in this situation is the dog itself.

It’s clear this couple isn’t going to make the right choice on their own.

This user would have been a lot tougher from the very beginning.

Animal control is a last resort, but this couple let it get to this point.

A ten-year-old dog with dementia deserves better than being left behind when his owners move out. And he definitely deserves better than being left with a fall-risk senior on social security who has to clean up his messes several times a day while his actual owners eat out and book vacations.

The sibling offered three reasonable options, yet all three of those options were offered. Since they refused to take responsibility for their own pet, this sibling knew he would have to get tough with them. And getting tough might just mean threatening a Class A misdemeanor and a four-thousand-dollar fine.

Some people make the right choice on their own, but other people have to be forced.

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Anyone who has worked retail knows the children’s section is usually the hardest area in the entire store to keep organized. Between scattered clothes, abandoned items, and kids treating displays like playgrounds, employees often spend entire shifts trying to clean up the same messes over and over again.

The clothing store employee in this story says they finally understood exactly why the kids’ department always looked like a disaster after encountering three particularly chaotic children during a shift. While the worker tried to tidy the area, the kids followed behind, undoing the work almost immediately by tossing clothes on the floor, shoving items onto the wrong racks, and generally creating as much chaos as possible.

The most frustrating part? Their parents stood nearby watching the entire thing happen without stepping in once, even after one of the kids managed to knock an entire clothing rail off the wall. Read on to share in the frustration of this worker.

Those parents who let their kids run wild

I work for a fairly cheap clothes retailer, and during my shift today my manager asked me to quickly tidy the kids section.

I think it is easy to guess why the kids’ section is always a mess.

Kidswear is always a nightmare. It’s nowhere near as organised as menswear or ladieswear, and is always a mess. Today I found out why.

I walked into the section and it was like a bomb had gone off. But being a good little retail slave, I rolled up my sleeves and dug in.

Kids seem to make messes naturally. That’s why it is important for parents to teach them to clean up after themselves.

As I was going around picking up clothes and sorting out the rails, three kids (probably about 12) were hovering around, and whether deliberately or accidentally, making a huge mess.

Picking up several different garments to look at, leaving them on the floor, putting things in the wrong places etc. Going over where I’d just tidied and generally messing up the place.

Sometimes they seem to intentionally try to make the biggest messes possible.

This culminated in the head brat knocking an entire rail off the wall.

The kicker? The kids’ mum/supervising adult was watching them do it the entire time!

I don’t know when this trend of hands-off parenting started, but it really needs to end.

If you can see your brats making a mess and generally being obnoxious, whilst a worker is trying to tidy up, do something about it!

When did this become okay? Just because it’s my job to make sure the shop floor is tidy, it doesn’t mean it’s alright for your little kids to add to my workload.

Stores should start kicking parents (and the kids) out if they are going to be so disrespectful.

I was relaying this story to a colleague who was working fitting rooms, and she told me that the same kids had been there as well, throwing underwear at each other, whilst mummy dearest was browsing nearby.

It is simply awful to see parents ignoring their children while they are making a mess. When you are out in public, you need to take extra care to ensure the kids are on their best behavior. Sadly, it seems like parents today do the opposite.

Let’s take a look and see what the commenters had to say about this story.

In these areas, kids could really get hurt.

This person works in kids areas too.

I doubt the parents even clean the house.

I can only imagine how bad it is in a bookstore.

Parents like this drive everyone crazy.

There have always been bad parents in the world, but the number of them seems to keep going up. What makes people think that it is ok to just let their kids run wild in a store? Why do they think that other people should have to clean up after them?

It really doesn’t make sense, and hopefully the trend will end soon. If you are going to bring kids out in public, they need to be on their best behavior. If they do happen to make a mess, the parents need to make them clean it up (or clean it up themselves). This really shouldn’t be that controversial.

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Have you ever lived near a neighbor who plays really loud music? If it’s during quiet hours at night, the police might be able to help, but during the day, there’s not much you can do about it. Or is there?

In this story, one homeowner is in this situation, and she tried talking to the neighbor who plays the loud music. He sounds understanding and has turned the music off every time she has asked. The problem is that he keeps turning the music back on again.

As summer approaches, she’s worried the loud music will occur even more often, so she’s thinking about doing more than talking. She’s thinking about taking pen to paper. It’s that serious. She wants it in writing.

Keep reading to see if you think she’s overreacting or not.

AIO Neighbors playing loud music

We moved to a suburban neighborhood in the US six months ago.

The neighbors behind us continuously play loud music in their backyard during the day (non quiet hours).

It’s bad to the point I can hear the bass with all the windows closed. There’s nowhere in the house I can go to get away from it.

I can’t be in the backyard when it’s on because the sound of the heavy bass is irritating to my ears. I do have a bit of hereditary hearing loss so extended periods of loud bass are very uncomfortable.

She talked to the neighbor about it.

I’ve went over there twice to talk to the person. I asked him if there was a way he could turn down the bass, as it rumbles directly into our house and is painful to listen to.

He was very nice both times and immediately turned it off both times (which wasn’t the ask).

It wasn’t a gathering, it was just him home alone playing loud music.

I’ve talked to two of the neighbors that live around us and they agree it’s annoying, but they haven’t said anything to them.

She’s considering writing a couple letters.

My next thought is to write them a letter.

I looked at the property records and found that somebody else owns the house, so was thinking of writing a letter to the owner as well. Based on the last names, it appears the “tenants” are related to the owner, perhaps grandchildren based on ages of tenants and owners.

Am I overreacting to writing a letter?

It’s not even summer yet and I feel like it’s going to be a nightmare. It feels unreasonable to have loud music playing. There is not an HOA or noise ordinances for daytime.

Loud music can be really annoying, but would it be too much to write the letters?

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an apartment tenant who is being called petty for blocking her parking space with trash cans.

Let’s see what Reddit suggests.

This person thinks a letter is useless.

This is good advice.

Here’s another suggestion.

Being a good neighbor works both ways.

Most people don’t set out to be an annoying neighbor. When a neighbor calls you out on being annoying, it’s extra annoying to continue the annoying activity. Yes, I know I said “annoying” a lot because honestly, that’s the best word I can think of to describe a loud neighbor.

I agree that the best thing to do is probably to talk to the neighbor about the situation again and hope that he is actually more understanding. If not, maybe the non-emergency police line can help.

The post “Feeling the Noise”: The Story of a Vibration-Plagued Home, a Subwoofer Siege, and a Paper Trail of Letters appeared first on TwistedSifter.

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In the grand scheme of things, a few hundred bucks really doesn’t matter.

And this is especially true when it comes to how companies operate.

Time is money, people! And if bosses and managers waste time trying to cut corners to save a few bucks, well, at the end of the day, they’re just wasting money, aren’t they?

You better believe it!

And the story you’re about to read is a perfect illustration of what I’m talking about.

A worker talked about how they got a hard time about some extra money they spent on a business trip…so they made sure to save some cash on the next trip with their boss and it resulted in a lot of down time.

Check out the story below and see what you think.

Booking Travel.

“I worked for a small company where employees could plan and book their own travel, but there were some guidelines.

There are always some kind of rules regarding these types of things…

One of them was “Always select the least expensive option for flights, do not book based on convenience.”

After a particular trip, I picked a flight that was an additional $50 so I could get home earlier on a Friday.

Problem was I was traveling with a co-worker who followed the rules, and when we submitted our expenses, I was asked why I took an earlier and more expensive flight, instead of spending 3 hours at the airport after our last meeting.

What’s the big deal about a few extra bucks…?

I was given a warning.

Well, my boss and I had to go to a conference in London. Since we were flying from the US, we decided to piggyback on some client meetings.

We left our home airport, spent two nights in Amsterdam, and then 5 days in London. My boss would never book his own travel, so I had to do it for him.

On the way home, there was a direct flight to our home airport, but it was an extra $250, so I booked a flight that put us through JFK and instead of landing home around 1 PM, we landed at 5 PM.

Some rules are definitely meant to be broken.

Enter my malicious compliance: I booked the less expensive trip, and we had a 4-hour layover on a Friday afternoon. My boss was mad because he had an hour drive from our airport, so he had to cancel a date night with his wife.

He asked why I booked this flight instead of something that got us in earlier, and I explained the policy.

Monday morning, we had a chat with HR about using “best judgment” when it comes to booking.

Oh, the kicker was that because of my status with the airline, I got an upgrade on both flights and was able to stretch out.

Boss? Not so much.”

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who figured out how to stop his manager from constantly stealing his phone charger.

Check out what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

Another Reddit user spoke up.

This individual shared their thoughts.

Another person weighed in.

And this reader had a lot to say.

That, my friends, is what we like to call malicious compliance.

And we’re huge fans of it!

Because what better way is there to prove a point than to shove it in the face of your superiors to let them know that they were wrong.

Ahhhh, it’s glorious, isn’t it?

For the record, we do not recommend shoving anyone’s face in anything too hard, especially the people who sign your paychecks.

Malicious compliance is even more satisfying when it’s utilized against your own boss!

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Sometimes in life, you find yourself in a really tough situation that you never could have predicted. Whether it’s an accident, a family emergency, a job loss, an illness, or the breakdown of a relationship, there is a good chance that all of us will experience at least one of these things in life. At those moments, all your existing plans have a tendency to fall away, and you find yourself having to frantically make new arrangements on the fly.

In this situation, you might have to take urgent action that doesn’t necessarily fit with what you would otherwise have wanted. Perhaps you have to cancel a vacation or take some time off work to deal with the unexpected. You might – like the woman in this story – even have to move house. But if you’re lucky, and you have the right people in your life, your friends and family are likely to be there to support you and keep some level of continuity in your life while you’re facing the unpredictable.

And after leaving her abusive husband, this woman did have friends she could turn to. In fact, she ended up leaving her marital home to live with those friends, in an arrangement that was mutually beneficial. But over time, her friends kept taking more and more from her, and it became increasingly apparent that their living situation was far from ideal. However, it was only when they really crossed the line that she decided to take action.

Read on to find out what happened here.

Roommates used me to be able to make rent, then treated me like dirt and stabbed me in the back. Here’s how I’m exacting vengeance.

A while ago, two friends and I were living in an illegal basement apartment.

They were unable to make rent without me there, and if the apartment was discovered by the township, then they had nowhere to go.

They also used my car to get anywhere they wanted/needed to go, and tried to dictate when I was able to use it for my own purposes.

I was planning on moving out but didn’t want to do so and leave them in a bad situation… until I caught them trashing me to my soon to be ex-husband, who had brutally abused me throughout the relationship.

Let’s see how she decided to get her own back on these horrible ‘friends’.

Now for the fun part: revenge.

First, I already packed up and moved out. They will not be able to pay rent, because I took my portion of it with me.

There is no lease or other evidence that I ever resided there, so I cannot be held liable for anything.

In addition, I have reported the illegal apartment to the proper authorities, who will be investigating it tomorrow.

And she’s confident there are going to be consequences.

I know for a fact that there are MULTIPLE code violations aside from the illegal rental, so a citation is inevitable and they’re going to be homeless.

They have arrest warrants for unpaid child support. I’ve notified the county probation departments (one has a case in one county and the other has one in another) of their location.

There is a good chance they will be arrested soon.

Now I get to sit back and watch the fun begin.

To some people, this might seem disproportionate. After all, she has basically lined her friends up to be made homeless – and potentially arrested too.

But the way they have been using her throughout this living situation, is one thing – then, trash talking her to someone they know has been continuously abusive to her? That really takes the crown for bad friends – if the crown was ever in question.

And if they didn’t want to get arrested? How about not breaking the law in the first place.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a teen girl who went above and beyond for a friend, only to be berated about not spending enough money on a gift.

Let’s see what folks on Reddit made of this.

This person was impressed with the efficiency of her revenge.

While others thought she could go even further.

However, this Redditor thought she was wrong for getting the landlord in trouble too.

It’s very clear that this woman has had a bad time of things. She’s divorcing her abusive husband, and she’s presumably had to find a new place to live, which has led to her propping up her friends in their illegal basement apartment – and all the while, her friends have been abusing her too, just in different ways.

That would be fine, and she would probably have kept propping them up and supporting them with access to a vehicle too. But to go behind her back and talk negatively about her to her abusive ex? The woman who has been paying their rent and been their free 24/7 taxi service? That’s backstabbing, plain and simple. It’s no wonder she got mad.

And yes, the landlord has got hit in the crossfire – the landlord who may well have been doing a benevolent thing by providing housing for people who were down on their luck and needed a roof over their heads. But at the same time, given those people couldn’t afford the rent, they may also have been exploiting them – there’s no way to know, since the rental was illegal and therefore not regulated. What she did might not have been pretty, and could have caused collateral damage, but in the end she’s hurting – and she deserves better friends than this.

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There is an unwritten rule of dog ownership that most people learn pretty early: if your dog makes a mess, you clean it up.

A homeowner in a small town spent weeks picking up after her new neighbors’ dogs, who were regularly let loose to roam the street and handle their business wherever they pleased. She had just lost her own dog the month before, which made every single cleanup hit even harder.

Despite the fact that this new neighbor had already been warned by multiple people on the street, she kept letting the dogs run loose anyway.

So after patience didn’t work, the homeowner decided to try something with a little more impact.

You’ll want to keep reading for this one.

AITAH for not calling bylaw on my neighbors loose dogs?

I (45F) had a young (probably mid-20s) couple move in to the rental duplex across from the home I own in a small town (population 2,500).

They do not have a fenced yard, but there is fencing on two sides of their corner lot.

There’s one big problem with these neighbors.

They have 2 medium-sized dogs that she will let out of the house to go do their business, while she goes back inside.

It’s clear these dogs aren’t the most well behaved.

Obviously, they don’t stay in their yard and will roam as far as a couple blocks to find somewhere to poop.

I often hear her calling from her doorway the dogs’ names for up to 10 minutes straight, because they can’t be bothered to get an anchor and some leads to keep the dogs in their yard.

The homeowner tries to hold her tongue, but it gets harder and harder.

I didn’t say anything the first — probably like 6 times — I was forced to pick up her dogs’ poop in my front and back yards (which is fully fenced but usually the gate left open).

The next time it happened, though, I got ticked.

Up until they arrived, everyone in the neighborhood was always diligent about keeping their surroundings clean.

My dog had died of kidney failure about a month before they moved in, and I was always good about picking up after him.

The first couple times I picked up after her dogs, I told myself I had just missed picking those up after my pup, even though the size difference made it unmistakable.

Finally, she couldn’t swallow her anger a second longer.

This day had already been a bad one for me, and I was really missing my dog, and when I saw her dogs poop in the middle of the front yard, I saw red.

I had been told by multiple other neighbors that she had been talked to and warned not to let her dogs run loose multiple times, but she obviously didn’t listen.

She decided if her neighbor wouldn’t respond to politeness, maybe she needed someone to be a bit more direct.

When I picked up the poop, I bagged it, tied it shut, and waited until after the garbage truck did our street, and then I put the bag on top of their garbage bin.

The next time I had to pick up after her dogs, I bagged it, tied it, and left it on her doorstep.

The next time I had to pick it up, I wrote a note that threatened to call bylaw the next time I saw her dogs loose, and to pick up her dogs’ stuff before it got smeared on her front door, then I taped the note and a bag to her front door.

The neighbor clearly got the message, but not enough to fully change her behavior.

I watched her run over and pick up the poop in my front yard from my living room, making sure she saw me watching.

It didn’t stop them from letting the dogs loose every once in a while, but they did build an enclosed area for the dogs, and any time they were out in their yard with the dogs off leash and they heard me outside (as I made sure they would), they’d immediately take the dogs in.

If there had still been any young kids in our neighborhood, or I had ever seen the dogs act with aggression to anyone, I would have called bylaw, but since there weren’t, and I didn’t, I chose not to.

However, her family all has differing ideas of who’s in the wrong.

When I told my parents the story, my mom said I had been an AH, but dad said I should’ve gone straight to bylaw or animal control.

So AITA?

If you have a dog, you need to pick up after it. Not just sometimes — every time.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an apartment tenant who is being called petty for blocking her parking space with trash cans.

What did Reddit have to say?

Leash laws exist for a reason.

This neighbor deserves even more punishment than they’ve already gotten.

This commenter has already given her neighbor a lot more patience than she deserved.

Letting your pet roam around free just isn’t safe — for the dog or for the other neighbors.

At some point, quietly cleaning up after someone else’s dogs stops being neighborly and starts being a habit that needs to end as soon as possible.

Losing a beloved dog is already hard enough, so constantly being reminded of it by picking up after someone else’s pet is just the worst possible outcome.

This homeowner had a lot of choices. She did not call bylaw. She did not escalate to animal control. She simply made sure the consequences landed closer to home. It’s what any reasonable person in her position would have done.

Sometimes the only thing that moves a problem forward is sending it back where it started.

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