The Wildest Am I the Asshole Posts from Reddit, Holiday Edition Part 02
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year to scroll the Am I the Asshole Subreddit. Monstrous in-laws abound, ungrateful children are aplenty, and there are more than enough mismanaged expectations to go around. Here’s The Wildest Am I the Asshole Posts from Reddit: Part 2.
Note: Titles of the posts are published as written. Those aren’t our typos, so calm the fuck down.
AITA for not inviting my husbands family to Christmas?
OP is a new mom and still healing from giving birth to her two-month-old spawn. The idea of Christmas with the whole fam-damily is overwhelming, and her husband agrees to a really small, teeny-tiny gathering with their nearest and dearest — real low-key. Husband’s parents, with whom they have a strained relationship, are not invited. You can imagine how shit hits the fan when MIL finds out. This story ends in a possible restraining order and an old bat ranting about grandparents’ rights.
WIBTA if I brought a Christmas dish to Christmas?
OP is a fully grown-ass adult man, and he’s had it up to here with his mom always making tacos for Christmas dinner. His wife doesn’t like tacos either, as it triggers her acid reflux. Mom announced that once again, Christmas dinner will be tacos and OP was like, “again!? But whyyyyyy whyyyy must you choose the dish you are serving for the event you are hosting?!” He wants to bring a dish so he and wifey don’t get stuck eating tacos AGAIN, and is wondering, if perchance, that makes him an asshole. The comments are surprisingly divided.
WIBTA if I insist my adult daughter participate in secret Santa if she’d like Christmas gifts
OP, who seems to really dislike her 19-year-old daughter, who seems to be trying her best to make it in the world after being raised by OP. Like many new adults, she spends some of her income on weed and DoorDash. For all Christmases past, adults of the family would each get the kids of the family a gift, then exchange Secret Santa gifts among themselves. The exchange has a gift limit of $150-$250. OP is seeking advice on how to tell her daughter that if she wants to get Christmas presents, she’s gonna have to be a grown-up and do Secret Santa with the rest of the adults. OP sticks the landing on an Olympic-level performance of right-idea, wrong-delivery.
AITA for ‘Cancelling’ Christmas?
OP and her husband host the family Christmas party. Every. Single. Fucking. Year. She’s dreaming of a low-key holiday, maybe some takeout and a movie, or hell, even a relaxing vacation with just the two of them! OP shared her dreams of a stress-free Christmas with her husband, and he was like, “fuuuuuuc yeah, let’s do it!” So they decide to forgo hosting NEXT year (note: NEXT year, not this year). When they gave their families the heads up that 12 months from now, someone else will need to host Christmas, they lost their shit.
AITA for not babysitting my grandkids on Christmas so they can go to a football game
OP, who has two grandkids aged 4 and 6 by her son and daughter-in-law, is hosting Christmas dinner. Her son calls her ONE WEEK before the big day, asking her to watch her toddler and barely-not-a-toddler grandkids all day Christmas until he and his wife come for dinner. Yes, you read that right – the dinner that OP will be working on by herself all day to prepare. Yes, you also read that right, too – on Christmas Day. Why, pray tell, do these parents of young children need a babysitter on the most magical day of the year? They have tickets to a football game. Yeah. OP is like, “um, no, I can’t watch your kids all Christmas cause I’ll be cooking the dinner you are going to come eat later with the rest of the family.” OP’s son is such a nice guy and not at all a piece of shit and tells his mother that if she won’t watch his kids while he’s jerking it to football with his also not at all a piece of shit wife, then they won’t be at Christmas dinner.
AITA for destroying family Christmas?
This one is…interesting. OP has been married for two years, and they have a one-year-old behbeh. OP’s mom gets him lavish presents each Christmas, with wife and son getting nothing. Nada. Zip. Not a damn thing. OP sat down with his mom to gently explain that while he knows she isn’t being malicious, it is coming across as a slight. Mom freaks out, calls the wife entitled, and says she ain’t hosting Christmas anymore. OP is like, “OK, cool, I’ll host Christmas.” Mom is like, “OK, cool, I’m not coming.”
OP mailed a gift to this woman who somehow raised him, and SHE SENT IT BACK. Christmas Day come,s and OP and his wife host his sisters and their families. The sisters act like ungrateful See You Next Tuesdays and accuse him of ruining Christmas.
AITA for banning alcohol from Christmas.
OP and her husband are hosting Christmas this year, and her in-laws like their holidays with a side of DRANK. OP is a teetotaler and casts a judgmental eye at those who imbibe. She’s decided that since Christmas is on her turf, Christmas will happen under her rule, and that rule is no booze. Sister-in-law caught wind of this and decided she is hosting an alcohol-soaked Christmas rager that everyone is going to go to instead, which is hard to believe because OP sounds like a really fun person who knows how to have a great time while not making her personal choices other people’s burdens.
OP and her husband are invited to the gathering, but she is putting her foot down and insisting they spend Christmas alone, sans family and sans booze.
AITA for telling my dad that my step-mom took all my Christmas gifs, including a car?
This one has a few moving parts, so pay attention, damnit. OP is writing to us from the land of teen. OP’s dad comes from fat cats, big money, high-falutin types. Dad’s family never approved of him fraternizing with OP’s mom, so OP didn’t see her dad for the first oh, TEN YEARS of her life. Dad seems to have stepped up, though, and is now present in OP’s life.
OP’s mom married Melissa when OP was 7. Melissa has a little demon bitch daughter named Grace. Grace bullied OP for not having a present father until she was 10, which is a really cool and not at all fucked up thing to tease someone about. Grace’s dad was present until he moved two states away.
Fast forward. OP is 16 years old, and Grace is college-bound and about to move out. OP’s dad comes by to drop off OP’s Christmas present, including a brand new car. When Melissa and Grace came home, they thought the car was for GRACE, from her dad, but alas. Grace’s dad calls and says he is sorry he can’t make it to drop off presents, and have a nice life. Grace was understandably upset. OP asks what she can do to help, and Melissa is like, “I’ll show you!” and starts gathering OP’s Christmas presents, and drives away in OP’s new car.
OP calls her dad, who threatens to call the police and report the items and the car as stolen if they aren’t returned promptly. Melissa, a full-grown ass adult woman, is now saying that OP ruined Christmas.
AITA for refusing to participate in Christmas activities with my wife and kids?
OP and his wife have three kids (2, 5, and 12). Wife didn’t have much of a childhood, and loves to go balls to the wall during the happiest of seasons to make the holiday season special for the kids — Santa, gingerbread, lights, tree, the whole shebang. OP, who isn’t a fucking asshole at all, finds this all to be really annoying and wants to enjoy his time off not participating in anything holiday related, which is funny cause you would think that someone who values their precious free time so much they can’t be bothered to help their spouse put up a Christmas tree wouldn’t start a family in the first place. The comments on this one are chef’s kiss.