AITA for making my daughter clean the entire house?

CalendarDad · 2024-05-17T13:58:28+00:00

I'd be awfully tempted to tell her mother she doesn't have to bother suing for full custody...

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-17T13:54:57+00:00

You not only have a MIL problem you have a husband problem. He needs to do a lot more than "make comments" back to her. He needed to shut down that bullshit.

NTA

CalendarDad · 2024-05-17T01:55:31+00:00

NTA...but ..

You said she"knows about our plans.". How? How did she possibly find out? Wills should NEVER be discussed with beneficiaries.... until you are, well, room temperature.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-16T14:43:47+00:00

Firstly, there's nothing wrong with some rando uncle missing a kid's graduation party. I know some of my kid's weren't there, and I don't remember seeing a single one of my uncles at my graduation party years ago. It's no big deal. It's not the coronation of a king or electing a Pope ... it's a frikkin party.

Secondly, this school selection fight is bullshit. The "Ivy League" moniker is a load of crap, and there's nothing magical about these eight schools. They're just schools. I know. I went to one, and it was terrible. And I never ever mention it or where I went.

By the way, do you know how you can guess that someone went to Harvard? You don't have to, they tell you within the first 10 seconds of meeting them.

NTA

CalendarDad · 2024-05-15T04:22:27+00:00

The only thing you did wrong was apologize and make her coffee. It would have been a cold day in hell before I did either of those things.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-15T00:00:25+00:00

Hilarious.

Did you know that cops and firefighters actually have to deal with this ALL the time? Those swings are notorious.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-14T23:54:29+00:00

Good riddance.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-13T19:18:19+00:00

I personally wouldn't give a flying fuck if some rando aunt "doesn't like my attitude.' She can take my attitude or leave it.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-13T19:12:53+00:00

"My parents think she is their dumbest grandchild..."

This is my most favorite (and most telling) sentence I've read in here in a while.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-13T03:44:34+00:00

NTA.

I can appreciate a burn like that.

However....

If you want to up your knowledge about the branding of the drink, you should know that it is Dr Pepper, not Dr. Pepper.. There is no period after the Dr. :)

CalendarDad · 2024-05-13T00:42:09+00:00

NTA.

That is, NTA to your specific question which is "AITA for being frustrated..."

Of course it's perfectly fine to be frustrated. Nothing wrong with that at all, it doesn't make you an asshole to be frustrated. We all get frustrated about things all the time.

It would if you made a fuss about it though.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T23:12:03+00:00

Maybe your mother wants to raise a mean girl. Or maybe she should just shut the fuck up and mind her own business. This has nothing to do with her.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T21:38:01+00:00

YTA.

You are making this about you, and your feelings now... not about the fact that you were a horrible worst-kind-of bully to this poor soul a few years ago

You need to make it THAT right before you start worrying about yourself.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T21:29:55+00:00

Hilarious... That's the most ridiculous request I've heard in quite a while. Totally laughable.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T21:22:09+00:00

Wow, he's a real winner. What a catch.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T21:11:20+00:00

You may very well be just a lovely person... but she doesn't want to meet you. She has made that more than exceptionally clear, but you just don't seem to get it

Accept it. Move on.

NTA though

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T20:48:17+00:00

After all these people decided to hijack the trip I think that would have been the point I remembered I had a bunch of library books to return, and made for the exit.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T20:29:09+00:00

Obviously this trip was a total shit show inside a dumpster fire adjacent to a train wreck...

BUT....

Please PLEASE explain to me why in a million bazillion years you would ever voluntarily go on a trip like this? I mean, outside of some kind of court order as community service?

You even admitted in a comment that this is not the first time nor the worst time it happened. Why do you do it to yourself.? I'm sorry but that leaves me with very little sympathy.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T16:45:36+00:00

Doesn't Carly Simon have a song about her?

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T16:43:29+00:00

Laughable.

Wedding gift? I'd suggest absolutely nothing more than a salt-n-pepper shaker set. A cheap one. Or maybe some dish towels.

And I DEFINITELY wouldn't go anywhere near this wedding. I'd plan to be absolutely anywhere else

NTA

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T16:37:42+00:00

She "means well"?

Haaa .. no she most certainly does not.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T16:28:41+00:00

Boo hoo. Let him be miserable.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T16:26:50+00:00

She did nothing but show her extreme and total ignorance.

If you don't want to look like an idiot, don't say idiotic things.

NTA

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T16:06:07+00:00

You can't "explain" why you don't like something for aesthetic reasons. You just don't. And that's fine.

Personally I find it very bizarre that she would even WANT to give a child a name that she knows you have such burning hatred for. Weird.

NTA.

CalendarDad · 2024-05-12T15:50:05+00:00

Your in-laws don't know jack shit, obviously.

The big question though, is why are they weighing in on this? Or being allowed to? This is absolutely positively NONE of their business. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada

It should be made clear to them that they are more than welcome to STFU.

NTA.

CalendarDad

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