rSlash - r/AITA for Trapping My Yard with Spikes

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

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yard. Am I the butthole for putting spikes on the edge of my yard? So my neighbor's daughter, who's like 20 to 30, has a problem of rolling through my yard to park in the driveway. I have my mother's flowers close to the edge of the yard that she planted before moving back to Mexico, and I adore these roses. They're the last thing my mom left for me and my brother. The first few times I let it slide, because I didn't want issues with my neighbor, but after the 10th time, you'd think she'd learn to park correctly. So I put up three inch tall bricks with concrete to keep them in place around the edge of the yard to prevent her from coming into the yard due to just feeling the bricks. But not even two weeks after putting them up, she knocked

three of them out of the ground. I asked her to be a little more careful. because she already knocked over some bricks, but she gave me a smug look and told me to not have my panties in a bunch. So I just fixed the bricks, and she knocked them down another five times. So I went to the HOA to ask if I could make modifications to my yard's perimeter to keep vehicles off of it, which they said was fine, there were no rules on what I could or couldn't do. So I removed the bricks and made molds of the same size. I poured concrete in the moles, with nails poking half an inch out of them and laid them around the perimeter of my yard. The following day when she was pulling in,

she, yet again, hit the bricks thinking nothing of it. The next morning, when she was going to leave, both of her passenger-side tires were flat on the ground. And then, when she saw the nails poking out, she got mad and called the cops, saying, I vandalized her car. But they couldn't do anything due to it being in my yard, and her driving on my yard,

even after warnings and asking nicely for her to stop. Now she's careful and hasn't driven over my yard. So now I've taken out the nails and put the old bricks back in. Opie, obviously the neighbor woman is definitely a butthole. There's no debate here. However, I think you might actually be a little bit of a butthole as well. Because you're actually not legally, or in my opinion, ethically allowed to booby trap your yard, especially with spikes. I'm kind of worried about, you know, kids or even just dogs walking through the neighborhood.

What if they step on a spike and hurt their little paws? I asked my mom once, who's a county administrator, so not a lawyer, keep that in mind. If it's legal to put booby traps in your yard, and she said, no, it is highly illegal. So putting spike traps is a bit crazy. I think you should have just done what everyone else on Earth does when they don't want cars driving into their property and just buy a big rock and put it where you don't want cars to go. Because if any car rolls over the rock, it'll completely destroy the underside of their car. So, while I'm giving the neighbor 1.5 out of 5 butt holes, I think I got to give you 1.5 out of 5

buttholes as well. Come on guys, don't booby trap your yard. It is not a good idea. Am I the butthole for asking my adoptive parents if they have a college fund for me like they have for my sister? I'm a 17-year-old guy, and I was adopted as an infant. My parents were in their late 30s, and I tried to have a biological kid for years. It didn't happen for them for more than a decade, so they looked at infant adoption. My birth parents chose them to be my parents. My parents were present at my birth, and my adoptive mom held my birth mom's hand as I was born. Then I went home with my adoptive parents, and the rest was history. Three years after they adopted me, my parents found out my adoptive mom was pregnant with my sister, who's now 14. I don't know if they

treated me different after that, or if they were always a little less in love with me than some adopted kids get. But I always felt that my sister was the clear favorite and their real child. My parents adore her. They spoil her. She got all the cute nicknames like Little Sweetheart, Baby Star, to list a couple. They were also really obsessed with how much she looked like a perfect mix between the two of them, mom's eye color and nose, dad's hair color and round face, and other features. A few of my cousins used to rub it in real good that my parents had their real kid now, and if they could send me back, they would. My family knew they said that, but nobody ever seemed to care very much.

I didn't get cuddles and kisses like my sister, didn't get the quality time with each of my parents like she did, didn't get crazy spoiled like her either. They didn't completely ignore me. I did get gifts, but they spent less on me and bought less for me too. Maybe it was the fact that I'm a guy and she's a girl. I don't know. I told my parents a few times that I felt left out and they didn't change anything or acknowledge that it was true or not true.

It was just like, oh, and then they moved on. My sister noticed the difference and she'd make fun of it. She used to say that she wished she had a real sibling and not a fake one, or how our cousins were her real family and not me. A year ago, I found out that my parents had a huge college fund for my sister. They were talking to my aunt about it and how they'd invested from a few things and taken from their savings for it. They never mentioned having one for me, which stung and I thought about it a lot. I got asked in school if I had money or would I get help from my parents for college, and I never knew what to say.

I told them I didn't think so, and then financial aid was discussed. I reached out to my birth parents a few months ago, too, and they don't want a relationship with me. My parents said they expected as much, but figured it wasn't their place to say. They didn't comfort me or anything, and my sister said I had four parents who didn't want me, so I must be broken. Two weeks ago, my parents asked me to speak to my guidance counselor about how busy they are and tell her she should talk college stuff with me and not them. I figured she wanted to find out about the money, and that's why she wanted to talk to them. It got to me, and I asked my parents that they had a college fund for me like they had for my sister.

They asked me how I knew about it and got mad at me for asking the question. I asked them why they'd make sure that she has one, but not me, when I'll be going to college first. and they asked me why I was asking questions that are none of my business. It made me feel like garbage, and since that day, there's a whole lot of tension in the house, and my sister is rubbing it in that she gets a college fund, and I don't. My parents never said either way, but not saying anything is basically an answer, right? O.P, this sucks, man, this story stings. It's almost actually a good thing that you aren't these parents' biological kid

because they have rotten jeans, and the sister clearly inherited them. O.P., you get zero out of five buttholes. Prepare to get kicked out of the house the second you turn 18. I'm giving your family 4.5 out of five butt holes. Our next Reddit story is from Organic Elk. My late father-in-law passed away over a decade ago. He owned a car shop, and I started working for him when I was a 15-year-old kid because I always loved working with my hands.

And I was always obsessed with cars. It's actually how I met my now ex-wife, his daughter. My father-in-law had two sons and two daughters, one of which was my wife. All of them were lawyers or doctors, and I was the only one besides him who had anything to do with the business. So when he stepped down and retired, once he got too sick from cancer, he passed the business down to me. Nobody had a problem with it. He later passed away that same year, and I've run and expanded the shop ever since. A few years ago, my wife cheated on me with another doctor that she works with, and we got

divorced. Since we live in an at-fault state and I had proof of her cheating, I got to keep the house and most of the money and no alimony. We don't have any children because she's infertile, so also no child supports. Now, she and her whole family are demanding I give up my business and give it back, but I won't. The transition was done legally, and I still have all the paperwork. There's nothing they can do about it, and now they're almost begging me because it's their dad's legacy and I'm not part of his family anymore, so I shouldn't have it. But now, and for years now, it's been my legacy as well, and I've put blood and tears into it, and I won't give it up until I retire. Am I the butthole here? Well, it was the father-in-law's decision, not yours, not any of the brothers or sisters, so if he wants you to have it, then that means it's yours.

Also, if they really, really, really wanted the business from you, they could pull all their doctor and lawyer money and make you an offer. So ethically, and also definitely legally, you're in the clear here. Am I the butthole for embarrassing my wife in front of our 12-year-old? My wife is generally great. One of her positive traits is that she's extremely well organized. She has all sorts of to-do lists, a meticulously managed calendar, etc. This is usually a good thing, as she rarely forgets anything. However, sometimes this leads to somewhat absurd results, as in this example. The other day, my wife and I are sitting on the couch watching TV. Our 12-year-old daughter comes in and says she needs a permission slip sign for a school trip the next week, which she has

right in her hand, and I can see she's holding a pin as well. My wife pauses the show that we're watching, gets up off the couch, and without her even saying anything, I know exactly what she's doing. She's heading to the kitchen to add permission slip for Katie to one of her lists of tasks. I found this ridiculous because these permission forms take 30 seconds. You fill out your kid's name in the I give permission for blank to go to the museum. You sign it and you're done. Sometimes there's an extra question such as a checkbox for, do you want to pay $5 for your kid to have a school provided lunch? Or you can decline if you're packing a lunch for your kid. So, since Katie was sitting right there with a pin, I filled out the form, handed it back to her,

she put it in her backpack, and my wife gets back and plops on the couch and says to Katie, did you need anything else? Katie says no and starts to walk away. I say to my wife, where'd you go just now? And my wife says, to add Katie's permission form to my to-do list. I say, well, you can cross it off because I did it while you were gone. And she looks at me dumbfounded and Katie starts laughing hysterically. I told my wife that I appreciated her organization skills, but sometimes it's just easier to take care of things in the moment, and this was one of those times.

Katie had the form ready, she had a pin, and the time it took my wife to add this task to her list, it was already done. I said the alternative was, at some point in the future, my wife was going to see this task on her list, yell for Katie, Katie would come running, my wife would tell her to go get the form, Katie would run back to her room and get the form out of her backpack. Why bother with all that when we can just take care of it right there? My wife agreed with my logic, but was pissed because she said I embarrassed her in front of Katie. I wasn't trying to embarrass her. If anything, she embarrassed herself by trotting off to another room to add an item to her to-do list that she could have completed in less time by just staying where she was.

My guess is that this story is pretty much harmless. Maybe the wife didn't see the note, or she was focused on TV and was half paying attention, or she does this so often that she just reflexively did it without thinking about it. So I'm not really inclined to give the wife a butthole score here. She was just a little clueless. And yeah, it is kind of sucky to get upset at O.P. But my guess is she was just lashing out because she felt embarrassed. So I'm giving the wife maybe 0.5 out of five buttholes. I think zero kind of feels more appropriate. She just had a dumb moment. We've all had brain parts before. That was our slash am I the butthole. And if you like

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