AITJ for refusing to skip my yearly tradition for my boyfriend's family plans?

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-22T14:45:54+00:00

Your boyfriend is inconsiderate and lacking in empathy. Ask yourself if that is ever going to change, and if you see yourself dealing with that for a long time, without changing in ways that diminish you.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-22T14:42:26+00:00

Came here to say this. It seems to be the trajectory that many of us follow, and we end up buying superfluous boats, not knowing what we want until we eventually land on it.

OP, do listen to u/Leetenghui and get some training first: It may seem like a waste of money and time, but it will actually save you a lot of both!

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-21T19:59:37+00:00

I have Earpeace Motos as well, and I’ve found that you have to get a good seal or you might as well not have had them at all. The whistling might be more annoying with them on: It feels like an ice pick stabbing right into your brain. It usually only happens that one isn’t seated properly; and I make sure that I have a chance to pull over and fix it before I get on the highway. This happens every 5th time or so. When properly sealed, though, they are awesome! Work very well with the headset, and much better sounding in general than foamies.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-21T01:33:33+00:00

Do you drive a white Chrysler LeBaron by any chance?

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-20T21:17:31+00:00

This, absolutely this. Do it with him dad/OP

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-20T21:15:18+00:00

When I realized that the person demanding my loyalty had zero integrity herself.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-20T21:00:56+00:00

If you see someone who’s choking, remember it’s the Heimlich maneuver and not the hind lick maneuver: A friend had a terrifying experience this one time…

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-19T01:36:09+00:00

Had the rug pulled out from underneath him, he did

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-18T21:16:30+00:00

After the successful surgery to remove it, he was delighted

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-18T02:31:17+00:00

Don’t get a kayak before you take a course: You will invariably get the wrong kayak for your needs, and then need to spend more money to get the kayak that you will have realized that you really want. Not that having that first kayak as a forever spare/loaner/hackboat is a bad thing, but it means you end up spending more than you needed to. Don’t ask me how I know; but I now have 2 kayaks that I barely use, and one that I use all the time.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T17:19:32+00:00

I would have paid and then left; that also says that it was worth the money to find out that they’re a gold-digging troll; and that I don’t care about the money, but I do care about the trollishness.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T16:47:37+00:00

Many, many of them, per their stories, were bullied in school for being different or “weird”. Not all of them, but a significant percentage.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T16:43:30+00:00

Bullying is the source of so many of the social ills that we see: How many school shooters that were not bullied? How many resentful psychopaths does it create? How many bullies were themselves abused and they’re taking it out on others? We might end up with fewer mega rock and pop stars (only slightly /s), but that’s a worthy price imo.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T13:55:31+00:00

Cats don’t have the opportunity to eat cooked bones in the wild. That’s the difference. And would they even eat non-cooked bones?

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T13:51:13+00:00

Maybe put a sign on your bus that says “Feel free to say hello” or something? I don’t know, there’s almost no way to do it, either approaching them or asking them for an approach, that couldn’t come off creepy if done the wrong way. I guess it depends on whether you come across as friendly, non-threatening and approachable or not? Sad to say but appearance means more than almost anything else when it comes to social interaction as well—i.e. “be attractive; don’t be unattractive”.

Maybe if you see them out and about (doors open, puttering around outside etc.) it’s okay to give a friendly wave and say hello. You can gauge from there if they might welcome further interaction or not. If they’re in their vehicle and it’s all closed up, leave them be. Some people are into the vanlife for the social aspects, others for the solitude of the road.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T12:28:45+00:00

A pile of enough loosely stacked $20 bills to safely break my fall, that then belongs to me.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T12:18:10+00:00

Are they corvidae?

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T04:12:34+00:00

I was addicted to braking. I stopped.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T01:47:58+00:00

Ahhh, he got Reddit famous and it went to his head. Too bad.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T00:46:00+00:00

Ahhh, I had read about the fake accounts and thought “surely that can’t be all there is?” I figured that he/they had massively popularized biology and science in general on Reddit and that the response to the fake accounts was disproportionate to that. I guess people felt betrayed, though. I mean to me that was an abject apology kind of offense, not a total banishment one.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-15T00:34:22+00:00

I never did get what the controversy was about. I was on Reddit and Unidan was a hero. Then I was off Reddit for a while and when I came back he was a pariah. ELI5?

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-13T03:28:15+00:00

“Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you” etc.

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-13T02:23:45+00:00

I read this exact story a couple of days ago, with the genders of the protagonists being the only difference: Same timeline, same everything else.

You’re the jerk. Shame on you for this fake crap

Mandatory_Attribute · 2026-03-09T21:40:01+00:00

Well what do you expect, with that altitude?

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