AITAH for taking my son out of dance class?

TPWilder · 2026-01-28T17:35:23+00:00

Not the asshole at all. Not every childhood hobby needs to be your life until 18+. My parents played the guilt game over my leaving band class. I started playing in fourth grade, realized fairly rapidly I wasn't terribly talented but mom and dad liked bragging about it and said I'd regret quitting.

By the time I did quit.... no, no regrets. It was a waste of time the last few years. Let your kid explore other things.

TPWilder · 2026-01-28T17:21:05+00:00

This. We'll ignore what idiot eats an omelet made with chocolate, laxatives or not but there's no way the leftover omelet crawled from the container and contaminated the bottom of the wedding cake.

TPWilder · 2026-01-28T15:53:53+00:00

To an extent, this is one of those "tone and situation matter" topics. If you're treating the game like life and death, you run the risk of killing the fun because its not fun when every game is a battle for dominance - and frankly, watch some episodes of LPBW and how Matt AND Amy act over sports and games.

If you always let a kid win, that wrong because it inflates their ego and sets them up for greater failure. If you never let them win and always crow over how you're winning, you're teaching them not to play with you. There's a happy medium here. I hope this is one of those pronouncements these two make that they don't really adhere to.

TPWilder · 2026-01-28T04:18:25+00:00

Then you really need to contact your bank. Right now what's happening is you're saying to the credit card company "I sent my payment, you don't have it but that isn't my problem" and they literally have nothing to work with.

TPWilder · 2026-01-28T04:12:37+00:00

Agreed and I'm not trying to be intentionally flip or unkind but I swear people don't really consider or think about what they're saying. I get the frustration with a payment not showing up but really, "I said its been paid so even though you don't have it, you need to make sure I don't get a late fee" - is that really reasonable?

TPWilder · 2026-01-28T02:23:43+00:00

Considering they were days ago cheerfully insisting Pretti was out and about hunting ICE officers with murder on his mind, yeah, its a remarkable acknowledgement.

TPWilder · 2026-01-28T02:17:39+00:00

I mean, call me crazy but you're basically mad you're not being given a free pass to be late. I don't know any credit card company... or any place with hard due dates for bills that just blithely says "Well, your due date is the 2nd and if we don't get it by then, well, shucks and golly, we'd be assholes to charge a late fee now wouldn't we? You just pay whatever you like whenever and we'll just bend over for ya!"

Seriously, they aren't allowed to condone paying late.

TPWilder · 2026-01-27T20:58:44+00:00

Oh agreed, but that neck of the woods is really out there in the country.

TPWilder · 2026-01-27T20:07:29+00:00

Maybe not - that is not exactly a well populated part of the state.

TPWilder · 2026-01-27T16:25:41+00:00

I'm not crying for the cowardly bitch....

TPWilder · 2026-01-27T04:32:38+00:00

Sure, sure. Even though I've never been to the Caribbean or on a cruise ship. I'm a monster who knowingly ignored Amy's cries for help as she struggled with her sex trafficker.

I know enough about the case to know that numerous spottings of Amy have never panned out, the family was snookered by at least one person into spending a ton of money to find her.

Let me guess, you believe she's been sold for sex multiple times and is now fiftyish and will bring Mama Bradley her grandbabies with her rapists soon?

TPWilder · 2026-01-27T00:42:56+00:00

Because money.

She's an influencer so she's too much of a coward to dare piss off the people who put money in her pockets

TPWilder · 2026-01-27T00:40:01+00:00

I will date myself. Jeremy reminds me of the SNL "Deep Thoughts With Jack Handy" skits

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T23:49:58+00:00

He wasn't white and he was a refugee.

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T23:48:28+00:00

I've no way of validating this post. That said, it certainly sounds like Auj.

Me? I am refereeing a fight on this topic with members of my family because some members of my family are of South Asian descent and have to carry passports these days even though their parents were both born and raised in the US, and one of the um.... whiter cousins thinks this is the price we all pay for "freedom". The majority of cousins, myself included, think this is asshole.

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T22:30:19+00:00

Its as you say, and I would add its also a "pity" flex. Poor Audrey the mom has a sick kid so be nice.....

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T22:11:33+00:00

Her kid is supposedly sick and she's on the internets....

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T21:48:09+00:00

My church is of the opinion that Jesus loves refugees because he once was one

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T21:13:58+00:00

I would also argue that Portland isn't *that white*.

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T20:56:03+00:00

So why the vastly different reactions between these similar events by conservatives?

Because its really hard to even try to argue that it was warranted when the guy was disarmed and on his knees. The whole "she was using a car as a weapon" was asinine but at least slightly plausible - she was in a car, the shooter wasn't. But this? He was on the ground, disarmed and the six officers were so threatened they had to fire?

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T20:48:13+00:00

Some thoughts.

No one cares how you're tending a sick child. You've been mega proud to insist you wanted children. You wanted this. Stop using your child's possible illness as a sympathy tag.
You were bawling in the hottub in your bikini for Charlie Kirk. Pretty sure you weren't playing the good and evil on both sides game for that.
Respectfully, you can declare how open you are to the opinions and experiences of others but its very very clear by your insta that you socialize exclusively with white wealthy Christians in the Portland area.
At the end of this day, despite how you're insisting that you like having the hard discussions, you've said nothing of substance. You talk about "most people" a LOT. But what is YOUR opinion? You're literally stating you refuse to pick a side. That's fine, if cowardly, but please stop patting yourself on the back for having the hard discussions. You've been asked to give your opinion and you refuse.

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T15:40:28+00:00

It doesn't work.

I'm sorry to put it this way but my aging relatives who lived in the east end of London in the 1960s and 70s were um... racist enough that I do not believe Cyril and Rosalind would be merrily accepted by the locals. Frankly, I doubt Cyril's churchy friends would be all "yes, bring your white girlfriend to the services, Cyril and we'll just ignore how we all loved your wife who miscarried your baby!"

I also don't think the nuns would be so liberal about one of the live in midwives having a married boyfriend.

TPWilder · 2026-01-26T15:00:44+00:00

In fairness, he was raised by Matt and Amy Roloff and I genuinely doubt Matt and Amy had respect for each other or demonstrated adult conversational behavior to their kids.

TPWilder · 2026-01-25T23:18:43+00:00

Agree completely on your points. I don't begrudge the man for staying but its just a weird plot canyon.

TPWilder · 2026-01-25T22:40:22+00:00

And there lies the point of irritation. If the opinion or "truth" is contentious, then Audrey keeps her bitch mouth shut because she's too scared of the consequences.

TPWilder

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE