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AITA for Refusing to Babysit My Sister's Kids After She Called Me An "Unreliable C*nt"?
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AITA for Refusing to Babysit My Sister's Kids After She Called Me An "Unreliable C*nt"?

Hi, Reddit. I (20M) am a college student living at home while I save money. My older sister, Sarah (27F), has two kids (3M and 5F). Sarah works full-time, and since she’s a single mom, she often asks me to help babysit when her daycare falls through or she has errands to run. I love my niece and nephew—they’re great kids—but babysitting them isn’t easy. Between my cla*ses, part-time job, and t...

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AITA for “forcing” a disabled woman to buy 6 tubs of mayo?
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AITA for “forcing” a disabled woman to buy 6 tubs of mayo?

Work at a supermarket and we regularly have this lady come in to do her shopping. She’s always by herself and never has anyone else for her, no carer or anything. This lady is completely confined to her wheelchair and has extremely limited motor sk**ls to the point where she can only slightly move her fingers. She cannot speak at all, besides little mumblings that are completely unintelligible....

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AITA for refusing to buy a coworker lunch
Work
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AITA for refusing to buy a coworker lunch

I (23M) have a coworker (25M) who is a mooch. If you get som**hing for lunch, he wants you to get him som**hing too, but expects you to buy it for him because since you mentioned it, he says you offered. At first I thought maybe he had money problem, but then overheard him laughing and bragging to someone in another department about how he was able to scam lunches out of his coworkers, and he’...

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AITA for accepting the suggestion and not coming back, ruined a family dinner?
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AITA for accepting the suggestion and not coming back, ruined a family dinner?

I'm known in the family to be a "control freak" about preparing food. In fact, in my family, there are 2 dinners in the year that all members come (in all 30 people) and before I took over, all dinners were extremely late, there was always some problem with seasoning or poor preparation. I'm organized and for every meal, I have a spreadsheet with everything I need to make a huge scale dinner. ...

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AITAH for cancelling a meeting with my ex after finding out she was going to tell she that she's pr****nt?
Relationship
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AITAH for cancelling a meeting with my ex after finding out she was going to tell she that she's pr****nt?

We separated in 2021 and then divorced in 2022 after 6 years together. Basically, we wanted kids but found out I can't have them and the relationship broke down over a disagreement about the potential fertility treatments and timescales of it all - she basically couldn't wait on the amount of counselling/therapy I'd need before I'd consider things like s**rm donation. I'm 41, she's 34. As t...

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AITA for removing a unofficial neighborhood playground
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AITA for removing a unofficial neighborhood playground

So me and my fiance recently bought a house. The house has a plot of land next to it where a 2 car garage that burnt down a few years ago used to stand. The previous owner rather then rebuilding the garage decide to build a small playground on the land for the neighborhood kids to use. Apparently it became pretty popular. But seeing as we do not have kids and have no plan to have them....

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AITAH for canceling a reservation that my sister made for 12 people at an expense steakhouse with the expectation for my vegetarian wife and I to pay for everyone.
Food & Diet
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AITAH for canceling a reservation that my sister made for 12 people at an expense steakhouse with the expectation for my vegetarian wife and I to pay for everyone.

AITAH for canceling a reservation that my sister made for 12 people at a Brazilian steakhouse with the expectation for my vegetarian wife and I to pay for everyone. I said som**hing to my sister privately about not going to Brazilian steakhouses because my wife (of 20 years) can not eat there. She suggested that I would be able to save a few dollars on the total bill by my wife "taking one for...

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AITA for refusing to sing a song I've written for my girlfriend on my sister's wedding?
Relationship
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AITA for refusing to sing a song I've written for my girlfriend on my sister's wedding?

I'm a sucker for music and songwriting. I haven't written many songs, let alone record. But I had good inspiration and I wrote a very touchy one for my girlfriend who I've been with for 3 years. I even synthesised music for it and I want to record it and personally give it to my gf since its special for us. My family asked me to play them the song since its my first song that I've finished....

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AITA for asking my parents how long it would take them to notice if I d*ed or would they even notice at all after they ignored 6 hours of calls about me going to the emergency room?
Family Conflict
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AITA for asking my parents how long it would take them to notice if I d*ed or would they even notice at all after they ignored 6 hours of calls about me going to the emergency room?

Alright so I'm the middle kid of three. My older brother is 10 months older than me. My younger brother is 2 years younger. So we're 17, 16 and 14. My older and younger brother HATE each other. They're always fighting and doing petty s**t to each other. It drives our parents crazy and takes up a lot of attention. Or at least that's the excuse my parents use. Even before it got really bad my pa...

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AITA for yelling at my neighbour after she saw me braless on my private porch?
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AITA for yelling at my neighbour after she saw me braless on my private porch?

I live in a neighbourhood that's managed all by the same hedge trimming company. We all pay into this service and have the hedges trimmed a couple times a month. I was out on my private ground level patio, laying on the outdoor furniture because it's sweltering outside and I'm nearly 32 weeks pr****nt. My patio is covered by cedar fencing, so you can't see if someone is outside just by looking....

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AITA for telling my nephew about family dynamics that his parents didn't want him to know
Family Conflict
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AITA for telling my nephew about family dynamics that his parents didn't want him to know

Nephew in question is James (17m). He'll be 18 in December. The other nephew and nieces in question are Cole (28m) and Melody and Briony (30f). My sister is the biological mother of Cole, Melody and Briony. Their father d*ed when the kids were 8 and 10. My sister married James' dad 15 years ago and she never formally adopted him but did raise him as her son. There was a lot of tension an...

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AITA for telling my friend to stop texting me "good morning" every single day?
Relationship
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AITA for telling my friend to stop texting me "good morning" every single day?

I (28F) have a friend (27F) who texts me "Good morning!" every single day without fail. It was sweet at first, but after months it started to feel like an obligation rather than a genuine check in. I don’t mind occasional messages, but daily texts make me feel pressured to respond when I’m busy. So I politely told her I’d rather not get daily messages anymore. She got upset and now is acting l...

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