rSlash - r/AmITheA**hole I Tricked My 16-Year-Old Babysitter Into Getting Drunk, and Then Fired Her

Episode Date: August 19, 2020

r/AmITheA**hole In today's episode, OP has a young babysitter who loves to drink seltzer water. OP even tells her babysitter that she will buy her seltzer water to drink while she's babysitting. So, what does OP do next? She buys ALCOHOLIC seltzer water and then puts it in the fridge without bothering to warn the babysitter. Obviously, the babysitter drinks it without realizing that it's alcoholic and gets completely drunk, so OP fires her! Is OP the butthole here? 🔔 Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2E3A8i6 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/VD6eYD3 🎧 Podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/rslash ⚓ Send me a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rslash 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rslashyt/ ♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rslash0 🛒 Merch: http://bit.ly/rSlashMerch 🎁 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rslash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to R slash a podcast where we'd the best post from across Reddit. Today's subreddit is R slash am I the butthole? Am I the butthole for not sharing my medical history before being pranked? Hey, I'm schizophrenic. It started when I was 22 and it'll last until I die. I'm active in schizophrenic communities, I go to groups, the works. But I'm fairly private about it to most people, including friends. It's fairly common for people to think that I'm eccentric due to some of my habits, but it comes with the turf. Those habits include not going to parties or other places with lots of people, suddenly deciding not to do something. I have to be really cautious not to do or go to certain things if I think a delusion

might be coming on. Saying the occasional odd quip, normal schizophrenia stuff. Some friends thought it would be funny to make it seem like I might be going crazy as a group. They would individually wear something silly like a wizard hat or a dinosaur costume to a group event or say something totally out of the ordinary and pretend like it's normal. For example, they would say, police like to track people like you, COVID is just a way to microchip you, etc.

These are very real, scary thoughts to me. I would ask members of the group if they had concerns about these conspiracies or the weird clothing from the other members, but they all acted like it was totally normal. I was really, really scared that this could have been a massive delusion morphing into a full psychosis, so I preemptively checked myself into a hospital to stop myself from potentially hurting myself or diving further into the rabbit hole. I was so scared my medication stopped working. No one had

heard from me for a few days while I was in the hospital, and when I checked out, I confided in one of them about what had happened. I got a really long apology explaining what had happened, and I blew up at them. I've ignored attempts from the others trying to apologize and have no desire to talk with them again. Opie, that wasn't a prank, that was more like bullying. You get zero out of five buttholes, and your friends get 3.5 out of five buttholes. Am I the butthole for firing my babysitter for getting drunk on the job? I'm a 37 year old woman, and I have a 16 year old girl babysitter who's been babysitting

for me for about two months. She's a very sweet and quiet girl and is good with the kids. My four-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son. We've only had small problems here and there, but nothing major at all. When she first started babysitting for me, I'd asked her if there were any drinks or snacks that she'd like me to keep at the house, as she's here from 9-7 every day, Monday through Saturday. She mentioned that she really liked Celterwater, and I'd bought them for the first month. But honestly, I forgot after a while and never kept any in the fridge. A few days ago, I bought hard Seltzerwater for me and my husband, and I didn't think anything of it.

A little bit after 2pm, she messaged me, saying that she wasn't feeling well and thought that she may have to go home, and she wanted to know if it was possible if I could get off from work earlier. I asked her to try to hold out until the end of the day. Not too long after, she called me crying, saying that something was wrong and she had to go home. She was drunk, clearly, she drank the hard cellars. I told her to leave and she walked home. She messaged me the next day and said that she now knew the hard cellars were alcohol,

and she hadn't known. She never drank before as both of her parents were alcoholics and she has diagnosed PTSD regarding alcohol. She never planned on drinking in general. I told her not to come back as she put my children in danger. She called me crying and saying that she didn't know and that she cared deeply about my children and would never ever drink with them or at all and that she needs the money to pay for her driver's permit. She comes from a not so well off family.

I told her to find a real job and then it wasn't my fault she got drunk. My husband says I'm being very rude and that she did try to reach out when she wasn't feeling well. My kids are upset to see her go, so read it. Am I the butthole? Yes, OP, you I the butthole? Yes, OP, you are the butthole. You get 5 out of 5 buttholes, maybe even like 5.5 out of 5 buttholes because what the hell? Intentionally or unintentionally, you literally drugged a minor.

A minor who lets her remember has PTSD surrounding alcohol. A minor who basically did everything right in the situation. She called to tell you that something was wrong and when she realized that she couldn't care for the kids anymore, she said she had to leave. That kid practically deserves a medal for how well she handled that situation. I mean, how is she supposed to know that you bought hard cell-cer? Personally, I've never even heard of hard celtzer water, so I might have fallen for it as well. You certainly can't expect a 16-year-old girl who's never had a drink before to realize that this drink is alcoholic, especially when she had every reason to assume that you got that drink just for her. And, worst of all, you

got upset at your babysitter for putting your kids in danger? No, you put the babysitter in danger. Like, are you just gonna breeze past that point? So yeah, OP, I know that I'm kind of laying it on thick here, but for real, you get 5 out of 5 buttholes. And then OP posted an update. Edit, okay guys, I'm the butthole. I see it now. Thank you, I'll hire her again.

Edit to, I'll pay her $1500 a week from now on, and pay for her permanent end test, as well as her license test. OPE, while that's a sweet sentiment, I don't believe you. Am I the butthole for barring my husband from the bedroom tonight? So here's the situation. I'm a nurse working 50 hours a week in a pediatric intensive care unit. I cry at least once a week because that stuff is hard. My salary pays our bills. All of them. My husband is 25 years old. He has a degree but isn't looking for a job. He works two days a week at the grocery store and spends most of his time playing League of Legends. By the way, all events here are in accordance with COVID legislation.

Today was supposed to be a good day. I'd been begging my husband to swap his Saturday shift to literally anything else that we could have days off together. We haven't had a weekend together since our wedding 18 months ago. Today was supposed to be our first Saturday off together. We were going to go to an animal sanctuary. He starts the day by going to breakfast with his best friend, leaving before I even wake up.

I wake up at around 9 and realize he isn't at home, so I call. He says he's helping his friend set up lights and that the weather is too rainy for the animal sanctuary anyway. He gets home in around 1, lies around, plays some video games, and promises that we would cook dinner together tonight. He leaves again at 5 to help the same friend with something else. I go grocery shopping. I don't drive because of medical issues, but I walk there and back in the rain.

I get home and realize I left my keys inside. I call my husband, knowing he's 5 minutes away, and he says he'll leave in a minute. I sit in the rain and the cold. We live in the southern hemisphere. 45 minutes later, I call again. He hasn't left yet. He finally agrees to come and let me in the house, so he drives up. Presses the clicker to let me in the garage and leaves again. At 10 I call to see where he is.

His friend answers, and he says that he's driving out to do something an hour away. It's 10 30 and I'm going to bid. I sent him a text and I'm upset and I don't want to speak to him tonight and would rather he left me alone. As far as I'm concerned, if he can't value me more than his best friend on the first day off that he and I have shared in a year and a half, he can go sleep in his bed instead. By the way, his friend doesn't work, so they hang out all the time when I'm at work. He's gonna be upset, and he's gonna tell his friend, and his friend is gonna tell him that I'm being a B word.

Am I the butthole? Adding some info, I'm 26 years old, and we weren't always like this. I don't know what changed. I'm fairly confident he's not having an affair and I fully intend on talking this through, but at a time that isn't 4am. OP, I'm giving you 0 out of 5 buttholes and I'm giving your husband 4 out of 5 buttholes. He sounds like an overgrown man child. You say you don't know what happened, but I have a pretty good idea. You're carrying

all the adult responsibilities on your shoulders, leaving him to do basically whatever he wants, whenever he wants, with whoever he wants. And he's become incredibly spoiled because all he has to do all day is play video games and hang out with his friend. So when you come home for a weekend, he doesn't want to give up that indulgent part of his lifestyle, where he can just do whatever he wants. Either this guy needs a reality check or you need to get out of this marriage. Business notifications out of hand, Thrive Command Center keeps your customer emails, text, and social messages all in one place, so you never miss a message.

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But in order to figure out who to invite and who to cut, she's asking all confirmed guests to submit to 250 word essays to two questions. The gist of it is that they'll use these essays to choose who can come or not based on people's enthusiasm. People who don't write the essays at all will be automatically disqualified. I just feel really insulted by all of this. The questions aren't even pandemic-related. It's broad topics like, why do you still want to celebrate this date with us? And what will attending our wedding mean to you specifically? So she's blatantly looking for people to kiss her butt and tell her why they REALLY want to go.

Anyways, I told her in advance that I am not writing 500 words on why I NEED to attend her wedding. Spend my own money on plane tickets and hotels and buy her a present. This has really rubbed her and my parents the wrong way. She said that to keep things fair, if I don't feel at the RSVP correctly, I won't be saved a spot. I said fine with me. Then, my parents said that if I don't show up, I'm going to be in big, effing trouble with all our relatives, so just write the essays. And I, the butthole if I stay stubborn on this, I'm already annoyed at the thought of spending

thousands of dollars in coming home to quarantine. But I will not belt out 500 words on how this is totally my choice. Am I the butthole? So I think I would give this an everyone sucks here rating. I have a super close relationship with my brother and I would do anything to go to his wedding. And if he made me write an application to attend his wedding, then I would do it begrudgingly, but I wouldn't be happy about it. I agree that it's insulting, but it would be a small price to pay to attend his wedding.

But on the other hand, having your guests perform like monkey so you can decide who doesn't doesn't get to go is completely unreasonable. So I'll give both you and your sister 2 out of 5 buttholes. Am I the butthole for kicking my cousin off of my sister's wedding zoom call? My older sister, who's 30, and her fiance were planning for over a year for their wedding to be this month. Obviously, they can't have the wedding as planned, but they would still like to get married, so they decided on a zoom wedding where all my family and friends would just call into watch the efficient my sister and her fiance. My sister didn't want to be in charge of hosting the zoom call because she thought it would stress her out,

so she asked me to do it, and I gladly accepted. She and her fiance decided to invite everyone they originally wanted to, and it was a very big list. When we were going over the list, my sister mentioned to me that she wanted everyone else to be muted for the majority of the wedding, as she was worried that others would talk over her and her fiancee and overshadow them on their big day. A day which was already scaled down. However, her and her fiancee said that I should unmute everyone at one point so everyone could talk and have a nice time with each other. Fast forward to the day of the wedding.

Everyone is muted during the ceremony, which is going great. And so I then unmute everyone to ask to please raise a hand if they'd like to talk so it doesn't get confusing. My cousin, who's 27, starts waving his hand crazily, and he's with his longtime girlfriend. He's a very gregarious guy, so I wasn't surprised. Then he says stuff like, those two are such an inspiration. It's given me the courage to do this. Then he turns to his girlfriend

and pulls out a box that's a size of an engagement ring box. I immediately saw this as him trying to steal a spotlight, something that he's done since we were kids. For example, he would secretly mess up mine and my sister's drawings if the adult would praise ours, and so I booted him off the call. Then I quickly announced that my cousin had technical difficulties and would not be joining again. Everyone else accepted this and went about talking, and my sister and her husband did too.

The rest of the wedding went smoothly, except for the fact that my cousin kept texting me angrily, saying that he finally wanted to propose as a surprise with family all around, and I ruined it. My aunt and uncle texted me the same. Am I the butthole? Nah, OP, I'd give you zero out of five buttholes. What your cousin did was a major faux pas. At a wedding, it's extremely rude to propose or announce a baby,

because it steals the spotlight off of the happy couple, which is just not appropriate. Honestly, I want to applaud you for your fast thinking. Am I the butthole for kicking my friend out because of breastfeeding? I had some friends over, one guy with his wife and three other women. One of the women we'll call Jane had a baby two months ago, and this is the first time that we've seen her. She was away at families when she had her baby, so this was a small unplanned baby shower for her.

After an hour or so, her baby got bussy, and she started to breastfeed her baby, so this was a small unplanned baby shower for her. After an hour so her baby got fussy and she started to breastfeed her baby. One of the other female friends started looking upset and asked, don't you think you should cover up especially since there's a man here? We all just kind of looked at her. My male friend said it's okay, his wife breastfeeds, and his wife nods her head. Well, this upset the woman, and she looked at me and said to get a blanket. So, I got her one, and she said, no, it's to cover up with. So, I did as she asked to open up the blanket, and all the while, the other people were giving me a strange look, and I covered the woman's head and sat back down. Of course, she got mad and took it off, and said that's not what it's for and that Jane needs to cover.

I said why? The rude woman got up and tried to put the blanket on Jane and I finally had enough. And said if she didn't like someone breastfeeding then she can either look away or leave. Yeah, she got mad saying how I'm choosing Jane over her and that she's known me longer. I told her that you should have known by now that I don't believe in covering up regardless of where you are and that it's my house. I also told her that she knows what a pain it is to try to cover up a breast in a screaming, wiggling baby's mouth, so have a nice day. So yeah, she's mad at me, but the rest of us had a good time visiting. No, OP, this is cut and dry, you get zero out of five buttholes. I mean, why does anyone need to be reminded of this? It's your house, it's your rules.

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