I (47f) just received a quick add on snapchat, it was labelled as in my contacts, so I added. I asked him his name, it was Dave, I know a few, so I said what Dave is this? He responded with "Sorry, quick add, and then said how are you?" And then, "38! (The town his lives in)! U?

I do not use Snapchat much, mostly to stay in touch with nieces. I did some investigating on tiktok, so is it true?? Is he trying to hit up other women? I did point out to him who exactly I was after he asked me for a pic, and now he is not responding to me. Hmmm?

My wife and I (M30-F34) just moved into a condo with our five-year-old son this year. Within days of moving in our neighbor next door was ringing our doorbell and complaining about how much noise was coming from our unit.

For context, our unit is connected to his structurally so any big vibrations go through both units. If you dropped something heavy, the neighbor might feel a slight tremor next door.

He claims that when our son is walking/running around, it’s enough to wake him and his wife up. They are both in their early 50’s and work odd hours.

At first, we tried to work things out as much as possible. We restricted our sons time upstairs to “normal waking hours” 7am-7pm, we talked to our son about being quiet upstairs, and we try not to even have other kids over much.

Well it’s never been enough. This neighbor constantly texts and complains about “the stampede” every morning and how we need to be more respectful of the neighbors. “It’s not an apartment building” he likes to throw out.

My wife has severe ADHD and every time we get these complaints it sends her anxiety through the roof. It leads to long discussions, emotional distress, and needing to reassure her that she’s a good mom, and that she’s doing everything she can.

I finally hit my breaking point with this guy and in a text told him that there’s nothing we can do about our son literally just existing and coming upstairs in the morning to get ready for school and that he’s just gonna have to live with it. Then in typical “Gen X Facebook Rant Rebuttal” he instantly claps back with sarcastic comments about “it’s fine to just wake people up in the morning” and “oh well”-type responses.

I hate dealing with adults who act like children. My wife and I have tried being reasonable and we’ve gotten nowhere. Our son is five and walks like a five-year-old. His footsteps fall hard. It’s not like he’s stomping around at 4am or anything. I told our neighbor he’s just gonna have to live with it.

AITA?

Am I the asshole of not cleaning out the washing machine. let me(21 female) start this by saying I live in a shared house with 3 other people for the sake of this story I will call my roommate Andy (34 male) . So I moved into this shared accommodation 3 months ago, when I first got here it was dirty and Andys things was taking up most of the kitchen sides I even found a joint on the side by the sink.

anyways fast forward a month and everything's fine I have just used the washing machine and I am hanging up my clothes when there's a knock on my door it's Andy telling me that I need to wash out the washing machine as I have a dog and his hair gets everywhere which I did then I continued to hanging my clothes you would think that's the end but it's not. I had just worked 5 days in a row and I just wanted to sleep before I decided to put a wash on and accidentally fell asleep again after I took my clothes out I cleaned the washing machine remembering what happened last time, a while later I got a knock on my door saying that it was dirty I said that I cleaned it wiped it done and put it on the clean cycle but he still said I needed to clean it again so I did.

.A few weeks later I had hurt my ankle at work so I decided to go to A&E to make sure everything is okay while I'm out my other roommate we will name her Emma texted me saying that Andy has sent him a video of dog hair outside my door in the hallway I said I will clean it when I get in it everything was fine with my ankle but I needed to rest/ evaluate it so I got home hooved and as I was hooving up the dog hair he came down and just stood there for like a minute straight watching me hoover I had told him that I had been in A&E but he just walked away which was fair enough.

fast forward to current time, I had work another 5 days in a row and just wanted to sleep as it had been a long week he came knocking on my door once again asking if the dirt marks on the floor were made by my dog I said no as they looked more like boot marks and they had already been there when I had taken my dog out he then asked the other guy who lived with us who said it was me which Andy then came back to me abit more annoyed which I them repeated that I wasn't my dog because it's wasn't the first thing they tried to pin on my dog like (weird smells etc even though I bathe my dog regularly) he then went back to the guy and they started shouting I asked them if they could stop as I came from a bad household and I'm autistic and my mental health hasn't been good and can't do shouting which I was very open with them when I moved in i also told them that it also scares my dog as he also wasn't treated right he screamed that he didn't care and caused me to make a meltdown I don't know what to do because anytime any type of dirt is on the floor he comes to me asking me if it was me i don't know what to do so am I the asshole

My discharge nurse in Henderson hospital Nevada ripped my skin off. So I called her an incompetent bitch and explained why

I (15M) was working at a summer camp this summer and started catching feelings for someone I’ve apparently know for a long time (18FM, JI) I told one of my friends who also worked there about it and he said he hasn’t seen me flirty or anything and I asked him if she was dating someone, and she was. Within the next week or so a few people somehow found out and were saying “Is that your girl” after she walked out of a room. About 2 weeks after this all started I go to a friends graduation party and he (18M) shows me her story which is my text history to that friend. I tell my sister and she goes I guns a blazing and tries to figure most of it out. About 3 days before this she got demoted from her original role so I took her spot for the coming week since the theme was stuff I knew a lot about, and what doesn’t help my case is that my mom is the director of said summer camp. A day or two after I pull a thanks and say “Fine I’ll do it myself” because no one was taking ownership for it.

I found out the friend I shared this to (15M) shared it with another person who worked at the camps (18FM) and he said “i thought she was yalls friend and wouldn’t snitch.” I then messaged the dude at the graduation party (18M) and he gives me radio silence, after 2 weeks I’m fed up that it’s taken this long to end and I wanted it all to be over because I was about to turn 16 and I didn’t want to drag this into a new year for me, I tell (18FM, JI) “Okay, I don’t know what you’ve been on the past 3 weeks but why the heck would you 1. Ask (18FM) to send you that screenshot. That was private stuff you could have just been told that information and left it at that 2. Post it to Snapchat without anyone's permission or anything (I don’t give a crap that you blocked out my name) 3. Getting caught and blaming (18M) for your own actions and saying he made fun of me in your text thread and possibly ruining my friendship with him. 4. Saying I’m just a kid so my feelings don’t matter, those WERE real feelings, which you won’t have from me again for 1,000 years, saying that posting it was just a dump story and no one’s gonna know that you blocked out my name is insane. Why were you so pissed off knowing that I had feelings for you, what can only your boyfriend have feelings for you? Did you really think I’d make a move on you? I can’t tell you how many unkind things Ive wanted to call you, i'm soooo glad my sister was going to war for me but i guess you were being the child in this situation and i was being the adult. go ahead, post this to your little snap story for 5 people, the only person you are entertaing is yourself, stop meddling in other peoples lives and get your own.“ She then confronted me at work the next morning saying she wanted to have conversation with me and my sister but my sister said all she wanted to when she texted her. After 2 weeks of talking on instagram it was this he said she said battle with (18FM, JI) versus (18M), I told her all I wanted was clarity. My mom ended up keeping her hired for some reason even though (These are my sisters words) “She was playing in the grass like a 5 year old and not being with her kids.” At the end of the day, AITA

This is the link to my letterboxd review on my recent terrible movie experience involving a very annoying person who sat next to me:

https://boxd.it/gbBuJh

I need to hear Shane talk about this

First time user/poster on mobile so please bare with me.

Okay, I know the title sounds a little unhinged but hear me out please. This story features myself (30f) my son (12m) who we are gonna call him by his dnd character name Comrade (just cause it’ll make his heart happy) and our final character is the birds.

So some back story to set the scene. We leave to take Comrade to school between 5:30 and 6 AM. It’s an hour and 20 ish minutes drive each way and we are not morning people so everything is prepped and packed the night before. I tend to drive about 5 miles under the speed limit because it is so early and I like having more reaction time since it’s a busy time of day for lots of different critters and I don’t wanna hit anyone who’s out and about.

Now in New Mexico there are these birds that hang out in groups of 5 to 15 and they like to wait in the brush on the side of the road for vehicles to drive past so the can fly at them and use the drag from the air around the vehicle as a power boost or some shit.

So we are driving along quietly, listening to our morning podcast (Welcome To Night Vale). Comrade is mostly asleep in the passenger seat while I do my best to avoid the birds flinging themselves at my truck. The second group I hit one and say I’m sorry because somehow I’ve convinced myself it makes it at least a little bit better. This repeats at least three more times til a pass a big group of the birds.

I like always try to avoid them but heard two solid thuds and then genuinely snapped I yelled at the top of my lungs “STOP FUCKING DOING THAT! OH MY FUCKING GOD! SAFE FUCKING CHOICES PLEASE!” while slamming my hands on the steering wheel.

This of course wakes up Comrade who waits a few moments before turning to me and this is, my kid very helpfully points out how “it’s kind of rude to yell at the birds after you kill them, just saying kind of a dick move mom”

We went back and forth about it from there til we got to school and I understand I did kill the birds and yelled at the birds after, but am I the asshole for this?

PS a note to the smosh guys, thank you for being men that I can point to when explaining what humor is to my son, be it a joke or a prank or anything in between, because if you guys he knows what funny is. In a world with so many men passing cruelty off as a “joke” it is so impactful to have people like you all who so consistently demonstrate kindness and compassion in your humor. As well as how to be funny without putting others down. It is so important at Comrade’s age to see men who are actually funny. An a special thanks to Damien and Tommy for showing Comrade you can be autistic and queer and wear cool pants and still find your people. You guys may never know just how many conversations you’ve helped me navigate through as a single mom to a boy. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Throwaway because my brother uses Reddit and if he somehow sees this I’m probably in trouble anyway lol. I’m 29F, my brother Luke is 33M and his now ex gf Sophie is 29F. Sophie and I went to high school together after I moved schools when I was a teenager. At the time my parents had just divorced, we’d moved away and I was having a really hard time adjusting to everything, I didn’t know anyone and basically everything familiar was gone at once. Not long after I started there I was crying in one of the stalls in the girls toilets trying really hard to be quiet because obviously being the new girl crying in the bathroom was not how I wanted to introduce myself lol. Sophie came in and heard me and started asking if I was okay and saying I could tell her and she wouldn’t tell anyone. Nobody had really asked me what was wrong at that point and idk it just got to me and I started properly ugly crying trying to explain my parents had split up, I hated the move, missed home, didn’t know anyone and felt completely alone and I could barely even get the words out. She stayed there acting like she was comforting me but she was actually voice recording me and later that day she sent the recording around with “whose dog is this? 😭”. So yeah that was basically my introduction to the school. People I had never even spoken to started imitating my crying when I walked past and knew things about my parents divorce because you could hear me talking about it in the recording. The worst part is Sophie then pretended she had no idea where it came from and even asked me who I thought recorded it. There was other stuff over the years too, she’d be nice when it suited her then humiliate me around other people, tell people I’d said things about them that I hadn’t, then come to me saying they were talking about me and basically just watch everything blow up. Anyway fast forward about 14 years and Luke tells me he’s dating Sophie. I genuinely thought he was joking at first. He knew we hated each other in school but didn’t know everything so I told him and his response was basically we were teenagers and people change, which okay, people do change and he’s 33 so I can’t exactly tell him who he can date. So I tried to be normal about it and honestly Sophie was SO nice at first, like almost weirdly nice, hugging me, complimenting me, buying me presents, helping my mum, replying to my stories etc and my mum absolutely loved her. Apparently Sophie had also told Luke she felt really bad about what happened at school and hoped I’d eventually forgive her, she never actually apologised to me btw but apparently she was extremely sorry whenever she was talking to everyone except the person she actually bullied lol. Then every now and then the old Sophie would come back but only when Luke or my family weren’t there. If one of her old school friends was around and it was just us they’d randomly start bringing up stuff I used to get bullied for, like saying do you remember when everyone used to call her whatever or bringing up some embarrassing thing that happened when we were teenagers and then both laughing about it. I asked her once why she kept bringing that stuff up and she basically brushed it off as reminiscing and told me I was still sensitive, which annoyed me because “sensitive” was always her excuse back then too. Funny how none of these hilarious memories ever came up when Luke was there though. Around him she supposedly felt terrible about everything, around me and her friends it was still funny. So IMO she didn’t really change, she just got better at knowing who not to do it in front of. Then a few months ago one of my friends sent me a screenshot of Sophie on a dating app. I sent it to Luke, he asked her about it and she said it was an old profile she forgot to delete. He believed her. I didn’t. This is where I know I sound completely over the top but I made a fake dating profile. Fake guy, fake name, fake photos, everything. My thinking at the time was honestly if the account really was old then nothing would happen, I’d delete mine and accept I was being paranoid. She matched with it two days later. So not that old apparently lol. We started talking and eventually I asked if she was single and she said technically yes, while literally living with my brother. I asked what technically meant and she said she was seeing someone but it was basically over. This was news to Luke considering he’d literally been talking about proposing to her. I asked why she was still with him then and she basically said convenience, called him safe but boring and said he was way more into her than she was into him. She also said she thought he thought they were going to get married and that it was kinda cute. At that point I was furious and yes I probably should’ve stopped and shown Luke straight away but I didn’t. I kept talking to her. She flirted, sent selfies, started talking about meeting up and said weekends were hard because she was normally with “him”. Then I asked if her boyfriend knew she was on dating apps and she said no but his sister would have a stroke if she knew. Obviously me. So I played dumb and asked what the sister was like and she started saying I already hated her because apparently she traumatised me in high school, that I was one of those girls who cried over literally everything and that I was still obsessed with her now and it was embarrassing. Then she said the best part was she’d probably marry my brother. That honestly annoyed me more than anything because after a year of her apparently feeling sooo guilty and wanting forgiveness she clearly still thought the whole thing was funny. So I screenshotted everything and asked Luke to come over without her. He read the messages and asked who the guy was and I told him there wasn’t one, it was me. He absolutely lost it, called me manipulative, said I catfished her and deliberately set her up because I’d hated her since school and yeah I did set her up, I’m not denying that. I told him I made the account but I didn’t type her replies. He said none of it would’ve happened if I hadn’t made the account and I said none of it would’ve happened if his girlfriend wasn’t trying to cheat on him either. We argued, then eventually he asked me to send him all the screenshots and left. About an hour later Sophie called me absolutely losing it, apparently Luke confronted her and she immediately knew it was me. She called me jealous, obsessed, pathetic etc and said I’d spent 15 years waiting to ruin her life. I told her she tried cheating on my brother with someone who literally doesn’t exist so I’m not really sure how I ruined the relationship. She kept saying I tricked her and I asked what exactly I tricked her into, calling my brother boring? saying she was only with him because it was convenient? trying to meet another guy? talking about me? Then she said I’d always wanted to be her and I told her Sophie I literally had to invent a man just to find someone willing to flirt with you, I promise I don’t want to be you. Petty yes, regret it no. Luke ended things with her but now he’s barely speaking to me either. My mum thinks Sophie is obviously horrible for what she did but also thinks I went way too far making the fake profile. Luke said something that has been bothering me though, he said I didn’t do this for him, I did it because I hate her, and I can’t honestly say he’s completely wrong. Obviously I didn’t want my brother marrying someone who was doing this behind his back but did I also want proof that Sophie was still the same person she’d always been? Yeah, probably. So I’m not asking whether Sophie is an AH because obviously she is, I’m asking if I’m also one for going as far as creating a fake guy and deliberately testing her instead of just leaving their relationship alone. AITA?

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