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Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!
Chinese man finds ultimate nightmare worse than cheating, he or his wife are part Uyghur.

Grape fucked around with this message at 03:35 on May 31, 2019

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Pinecone Sample
Oct 12, 2010

THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SEIZED
by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 69 U.S.C Sec. 420

Leon Einstein posted:

MBV owns. MCR is garbage.

Welcome to the Black Parade is as perfect as Loveless.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

Barudak posted:

I know this isnt a super popular opinion in this thread but just get the paternity test.

Get the paternity test, but if you're the father, you have to let your wife cheat once without saying anything.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca



Beachcomber posted:

Get the paternity test, but if you're the father, you have to let your wife cheat once without saying anything.

One cheat per kid tested

a very large fish
Oct 18, 2012

Grape posted:

How are there still people making this mistake ityool 2019.

What mistake? MCR, MBV, SRV.. they're all the same.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

DemoneeHo posted:

One cheat per kid tested

Only fair, but he was just going to test the youngest.

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Xenocides posted:

My (27F) emotionally unstable husband (26M) of 2 years applied to a job as a police officer.

I read this one and imagined the wife agreeing to being handcuffed, only for the husband to get pissed during sex and strangling her to death. And surprise surprise, an even darker cop story was just posted. I hope both those women make it out okay, but the odds really aren't in their favor.

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

Pinecone Sample posted:

Welcome to the Black Parade is as perfect as Loveless.

I gotta admit I don't know anything about MCR except for knowing a teenage girl that worked with my then gf like 17 years ago that was obsessed with the lead singer.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Grape posted:

Chinese man finds ultimate nightmare worse than cheating, he or his wife is part Uyghur.

I found an Uyghur restaurant in Brighton Beach and can’t believe anyone hating them now. That poo poo was good.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for disowning my sister and stepbrother after they started dating?

My mom was married to my stepdad (who I'll just call dad from now on) since we were very young, and were married for over 20 years. There are 6 children in total. 2 step-siblings, 3 biological siblings and myself. His children were much older than us, so we never lived together while we were growing up as they were already adults, but we did see each other multiple times every week. My biological father was never in the picture so i always considered my stepdad to be my dad, and my step siblings to just be my brother/sister as we were all pretty close. I thought we all felt the same way.

​In October 2018, my dad was diagnosed with brain cancer, and died in February 2019. We buried him the following month (2 months ago) and have since been meeting up regularly to visit my dads grave and share memories over food/drinks.

​My sister revealed to me yesterday by text message that she had been dating my stepbrother and they got together around a week after we buried our dad. she says that after our dads death and the breakdown of her marriage (which happened during my stepdads illness, but was never made public until after my dad had passed) she turned to him for support and affection, and things just grew from there. but i feel like it's just far too quick. My mom is horrified by the situation and I see the relationship as incestuous even though they aren't blood related. my mom now says that she can't look at my stepbrother in the same way any more and also thinks the whole thing is wrong. They have decided to carry on with their relationship regardless.

​I ended up having a massive argument with my sister over it. I claim that morally the whole thing is wrong, and that she is disrespecting my dads memory and my mom. She says that I've always hated her and my stepbrother and it's just an excuse for me to bully her. after arguing over Whatsapp over the course of around 6 hours, I told her that I no longer wanted anything to do with her or my stepbrother and they can stay out of my life for good.

​I feel like I'm doing the right thing, but I also feel a huge amount of guilt. Am i the rear end in a top hat?

Smirking_Serpent fucked around with this message at 03:20 on May 31, 2019

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe
The CW's new Brady Bunch reboot is pretty dark.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Pinecone Sample posted:

Welcome to the Black Parade is as perfect as Loveless.

lolll :chanpop:

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

When I was
a young boy
my father
told me my taste was lovely
I should like better bands

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



Guys, the story it comes from is dull; but one comment I saw in a post leads me to suggest a new thread title:

quote:

Yea, a 36 year old man should team up with his 32 year old wife against his troubled 19 year old sister.

Reddit & autism, can anyone name a more iconic duo?

R/relationships: Reddit & autism, can anyone name a more iconic duo?

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

He said, OP, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The probated, and the banned?
He said, will you defeat them
Your demons and all the non-believers?

The posts that they have made?
Because one day I'll leave you
A toxx to lead you in the summer
To join the black parade

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

Sex offender sent me a doll, is that legal?

I received a package from a person I do not know from an address linked to a child sex offender. The package contained a little girl doll and an empty notebook. The person knows my full name (not common name) and exact address, should I report it? (Am I overreacting? Is it a waste of time to report? Is there a law being broken?

I'm over 18, but I'm a petite girl who sometimes wears "kids" clothes (ex; power puff girl shirt, lots of pink)

Kansas City, Missouri

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Sex offender sent me a doll, is that legal?

I received a package from a person I do not know from an address linked to a child sex offender. The package contained a little girl doll and an empty notebook. The person knows my full name (not common name) and exact address, should I report it? (Am I overreacting? Is it a waste of time to report? Is there a law being broken?

I'm over 18, but I'm a petite girl who sometimes wears "kids" clothes (ex; power puff girl shirt, lots of pink)

Kansas City, Missouri
ew what

yes report it jesus christ

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Sex offender sent me a doll, is that legal?

I received a package from a person I do not know from an address linked to a child sex offender. The package contained a little girl doll and an empty notebook. The person knows my full name (not common name) and exact address, should I report it? (Am I overreacting? Is it a waste of time to report? Is there a law being broken?

I'm over 18, but I'm a petite girl who sometimes wears "kids" clothes (ex; power puff girl shirt, lots of pink)

Kansas City, Missouri

Na it’s totally NBD. Never-mind that’s how like 90% of horror movies start.

I know she’s only 18 but drat report that poo poo.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

MarcusSA posted:

Na it’s totally NBD. Never-mind that’s how like 90% of horror movies start.

I know she’s only 18 but drat report that poo poo.
She's way older than 18 (I thought the same thing at first but read it closer), and in the original post she talks in the comments about working with women at a domestic violence center, so either she's being targeted by a pedophile or by a domestic abuser whose victim she helped.

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

FactsAreUseless posted:

She's way older than 18 (I thought the same thing at first but read it closer), and in the original post she talks in the comments about working with women at a domestic violence center, so either she's being targeted by a pedophile or by a domestic abuser whose victim she helped.

In that context, it seems like she’s in that temporary “a sinking feeling in my gut” stage of denial before she does the needful.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Sex offender sent me a doll, is that legal?

I received a package from a person I do not know from an address linked to a child sex offender. The package contained a little girl doll and an empty notebook. The person knows my full name (not common name) and exact address, should I report it? (Am I overreacting? Is it a waste of time to report? Is there a law being broken?

I'm over 18, but I'm a petite girl who sometimes wears "kids" clothes (ex; power puff girl shirt, lots of pink)

Kansas City, Missouri

See if you can find out who their probation officer is and notify them directly.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

There's also a guy in the comments talking about how she shouldn't make a big deal. His name? Phaserman. :aatrek:

spoiler alert he's also a huge racist sexist homophobic transphobic garbage pile, and I figured that out by clicking his profile and reading like four posts

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

FactsAreUseless posted:

She's way older than 18 (I thought the same thing at first but read it closer), and in the original post she talks in the comments about working with women at a domestic violence center, so either she's being targeted by a pedophile or by a domestic abuser whose victim she helped.

Oh! Ok I missed the way over part.

That other part though :bang:

She should know better.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

MarcusSA posted:

Oh! Ok I missed the way over part.

That other part though :bang:

She should know better.
I think she does, she's just doing what people do in those situations and trying to figure out whether she's freaking out or not. It's a normal impulse.

Tetramin
Apr 1, 2006

I'ma buck you up.
No wonder incest porn featuring step or regular siblings is so common. Good lord.

E: obviously regarding the million step son/sister/brothwr stories in the past few days

Tetramin fucked around with this message at 04:02 on May 31, 2019

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

Advice for being “the other man” for now.

I, 22M, have been with my SO, 24F, for a little while now. A few months. We have a good time together, we have pretty good sex, and we want the best for each other. We’ve talked about what we’re doing, and where we’re going, and we’re on the same page. We both want a future together, we want to be involved in each others lives, and have talked about a serious, long term future together.

The only problem is that she’s in a relationship. Been with this person, 28 M, I’ll call C. When I found out about C i was surprised, as we had been doing our thing before he ever came up, but I’ve known about C before we ever started having serious talks about a future between me and her.

I’ve asked her why she is with C, and what she plans on doing about it. She says that she isn’t in love with him anymore, but her family loves him. Her mother thought they would get married. And she in intwined with C’s family as well. I told her that it bugs me they’re still officially together, even though she barely ever sees him and she talks to him about as little as possible. She said that no matter what happens with me, she is going to break up with C. According to her, it’s my call. If it really bugs me that she hasn’t done it yet, I won’t hurt her feelings if I want to take a break, because she knows why I would be upset. But if I can be patient, she’ll make it up to for having to deal with this for so long. If we stay together, it will be just us. If I want to end it, she’ll be alone. She wants to break up with C, she just needs to figure out how, and when. She wants to talk to her mom about what to do to make it as easy as possible. But she says she doesn’t have time to talk to her mom right now.

Is it wrong for me to be impatient with her? Some times it feels like she’s putting off breaking up with him. I get paranoid very easily, and I think about it way more than I should. As far as actions go, she stays up with me on the phone frequently, to the point where we fall asleep on the line and wake up to say good morning to each other. We go out somewhat often, go on dates, and she’ll spend the night with me somewhat often. And she has confirmed to me several times I’m the only person she does these things with. So what she does for the most part seems to line up with what she says, but I still feel gross with the fact that they’re technically dating still. I can’t understand why she doesn’t just end it if she really doesn’t want to be with him.

TL;DR been with a girl, we get along and want a future together, but she’s been dating a guy for two years. She says she’s going to break up with him, and I’m trying to be patient with her because I understand it can be difficult, but she doesn’t seem to make any progress in actually breaking up with him. I’m getting paranoid that she isn’t going to at all and she’s stringing me along.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Advice for being “the other man” for now.

I’m getting paranoid that she isn’t going to at all and she’s stringing me along.

Ya think?????

:thunk:

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Smirking_Serpent posted:

WIBTA if I tell in laws I will only marry SO if he has a credit score?


It sucks that this guy is the victim of what looks like a decade+ of financial abuse but it's not going to get fixed soon, if ever, and will likely only get worse. Guy has his name on a failing business and a lifetime of allowing his mother to use his info for terrible financial decisions, and she's never going to let up because she's never going to be competent with money.

Run, run from this fiscal dumpster fire.

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words
He probably didn't "allow it," she probably started when he was a kid. Parents can really gently caress up their kids' whole lives that way

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Emotionally distant bf with anxiety doesn’t see himself falling in love

My bf (25m) and myself (24f) are going through a rough patch. We’ve been exclusive for around 10 months but dating with a bf/gf label for 4 months. It felt as if we’ve both been really happy. I’m falling in love and he’s been open in the past about how he can be emotionally distant sometimes. I have no trouble talking about my feelings whereas he chokes up and can’t verbally express on a deeper level aside from “I like you”. I thought it was getting better though as some time had passed.

We nearly broke up the other night after a discussion about our future. I asked him if he could see himself developing serious feelings for me (aka love) and he started crying and said he didn’t know. I asked if he would fight for our relationship and he said he didn’t know. I asked if he wanted to be with me and he said yes but knows he isn’t being totally fair because his lack of emotions. He thinks he has bad anxiety because apparently he isn’t feeling any emotions towards anything in his life. He said ordinarily he would have fallen in love with me within the first month of us dating but he just feels so emotionally drained. He is going through a rough period in his career and struggling to develop a future plan for himself. For this reason I have been trying really hard to be supportive and trying to “lift him up” but the convo the other night has absolutely shattered me. I just keep replaying his responses and how unsure he was of his feelings and our relationship. I feel gutted that this guy has been “stringing” me along for so long knowing that he was unsure whether he could experience deeper level emotions. I want to support him through this experience as I know things will improve when he isn’t under so much pressure. But on the other hand I just feel so betrayed and heart broken. I definitely like him more than he likes me, but I thought this was normal considering it had been so long.

What would you do if you were in my position? Cut losses to avoid potential heartbreak more as he’s made it clear he doesn’t know what he wants or support him and hope his anxiety improves enough that you can both be together and in love? Has anyone experienced a similar situation?

TLDR; My bf has anxiety and after 10 months isn’t feeling the same level of emotions I have. He considers himself to be “emotionally distant” and the anxiety makes him feel like he can’t experience deeper levels of emotions. Do I support him through this anxiety period and hope it improves or just give him some space and deal with my heartbreak? What would you do

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Anne Whateley posted:

He probably didn't "allow it," she probably started when he was a kid. Parents can really gently caress up their kids' whole lives that way
It's cool that the most legal form of child abuse is financial.

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
My girlfriend (23F) thinks it’s ridiculous that my (24M) parents said I need to be paying all my own bills to get married

quote:

So my girlfriend and I have been dating for about 1 year and 8 months. My family and I (mom dad and two other younger brothers) are very close and she has been threatened by that somewhat from the beginning. Early in our relationship I didn’t do a good job at including her in family functions and that and some other issues has cause her relationship with my parents to not be very good but mostly with my mom (as me and my mom are close). It’s been better the past 5 months as previously my parents would sit me down when I lived at home and talk to me about our relationship (I was still living at home as I was finishing school but I’ve been moved out paying rent and food for the past 4 months). They a few months ago said they would stop talking to me about my relationship and only would if I brought it up with them.

We met with a pastor at our church in January (she had been having issues with my parents and my relationship so we decide to get some third party advice) and he advised her to even if she felt to had done anything to offend my mom to go an apologize. She did and we had been talking about marriage for a few months and I said that if she apologized to my mom and things began to get better we could get engaged. ( we had already talked about getting married after I graduate in July and work a full time job for 6 months) Well in about February after some prompting from her (the pervious conversations with my parents involving her always end in a fight between us) I talk to them again about us getting married and they have some reasons we shouldn’t I don’t remember but the gist was we both needed some more time to mature. Well we talk about it and I convince her to wait a little longer so their relationship can get better (it’s never anything like violent or confrontational between her and my mom she felt threatened cause we were so close and felt like I would never “leave and cleave” and me and my family are close so my mom felt she was trying to keep me from my family).

I had talked to my dad a little about getting married and engaged and this point I had already bought the ring and made the mistake of telling her. We had been talking because she wanted to know that I was committed to her and getting married as she had felt that I was stringing her along so I told her I bought it which made her want it even more. She has been pressuring me to talk to them again about us getting engaged I didn’t want to cause I was scared of how it would go as all the others hadn’t gone great.

Well I talked to them last week saying I wanted to propose and that I had already bought her the ring. They said they felt I should wait and that I had time and that she needed to mature. Me and my parents had talked about after I graduate in July to start moving me to paying all my own bills since I’m in school and work part time they would let me wait till I graduate and slowly start making me pay more and more of my own bills. But that if I were to get engaged that I would have to pay all my bills because by saying I was ready to get engaged and married I should be supporting myself because I’m saying I’m ready to not only support myself but someone else too. I agreed and that didn’t sound ridiculous to me at all.

Well of course she was pissed has she felt It was my parents punishing me and trying to keep us from getting engaged. I financially could at this point but it would be pretty stressful for me. This summer I’ll be taking 15 hours of school working 20+ hours a week, having a serious girlfriend and doing things I want to do is a lot. My job pays 16 an hour with the potential to move to 20 an hour this summer but in June it’s 5 hours a day 4 days a week and my expenses with rent, food, gas, phone, insurance, health insurance is right at 1100 dollars a month not including any other unexpected expenses which is basically what I would be making a month. I am pretty good with my money, I have a credit card but keep it paid to a 0 balance every month, have a savings of 2,000 dollars and keep between 300+ dollars in my checking account a month. Our plan is to get married after after I graduate (July) and get a full time job and work it for 6 months.

Well she feels like it’s only fair to her since I’ve been saying to get engaged to go ahead and get engaged and pay all these extra expenses so was can get engaged and she is still mad at my parents for even saying what they did. She feels like they should be supportive and keep paying what they pay for currently until I graduate as they said they would. I feel like what they are saying isn’t ridiculous and that she’s being selfish to say that two months makes that big of a difference to her. Just wanted to get some advice and see what you guys think!

TL;DR : My parents said i should be paying all my own bills to get engaged because I should be paying all my won bills before i say i will take care of someone else too and my girlfriend is pissed about it. Is it wrong what they are saying?

Edit: I believe what my parents are saying is very fair. And I am graduating in July and will begin working full time. We will not get married till after I get a job and work it for 6 months. I graduate in July. This is strictly about getting engaged and her wanting me to pay for all the extra costs I would get by doing so from my parents. My parents said I would have to pay all my own expenses when we get engaged as well.e


Forcing my boyfriend to go into unnecessary debt a few months early to spite my future in-laws for trying to finish baking my husband in the maturity oven.

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

FactsAreUseless posted:

It's cool that the most legal form of child abuse is financial.

There is this episode of the podcast Criminal about this which is both one of the most depressing and most fascinating things I’ve ever heard. Imagine living with someone who says they love you and all the while they are secretly ruining your life brick by brick.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

MasBrillante posted:

My girlfriend (23F) thinks it’s ridiculous that my (24M) parents said I need to be paying all my own bills to get married



Forcing my boyfriend to go into unnecessary debt a few months early to spite my future in-laws for trying to finish baking my husband in the maturity oven.

Smart parents.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

cumshitter posted:

That guy is a creep but the Pokemon Go community in any metropolitan is pretty deep. Rife with hookups and drama.

Hahaha this explains my friend's situation (or if you're joking, it's about something that is apparently true). I was at his place a couple weeks ago and he's like "I have something to confess" and reveals that he's been hooking up with these two married women he met through Pokemon Go (a concept which confused me until reading your post). One is an Armenian woman whose husband is apparently at work all the time, so I guess she hooks up with Pokemon Go men as a hobby. The other is a woman who my friend explicitly said he did not find physically attractive, but enjoyed hanging out with as a friend. My friend has never met her husband either, so I'm kinda suspicious that neither of these relationships are actually open through some mutual decision by both wife and husband.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

WIBTA if I didn't give my cousin the money from her graduation gift?

I bought my little cousin a very nice and very generous piece of jewelry for her high school graduation a few weeks ago. Our grandmother recently passed away, and had given me, as well as my sisters, the same item (a watch) for our high school graduations. So in my grandma's absence I gave her the watch, a simple and classic style Movado that set me back ~$500USD. It was significantly more than I have ever spent on a gift, but felt that this was an important occasion and this tradition was important in my family.

​About a week ago I'm checking my online banking, and I notice a chargeback on my card from the store for the full amount of the deposit (I financed the watch and would be making payments). Thinking it was a mistake, I called them and asked to speak to the manager. Wellll..... It turns out my cousin came in the very next day and returned the watch. The manager also added that the greeting card I had given with it was still in the bag and my cousin had left it behind asking if we wanted that back.

​I felt so hurt. I didn't even know what to say. I felt hurt that she couldn't be honest with me about how she felt, I felt hurt she clearly didn't value my generosity, I felt hurt that she returned the item the next day.

​Fast forward to yesterday: My aunt calls me up. She explains that my cousin had returned the watch as she felt uncomfortable with how much I had spent on her, and felt that she had no need for such a nice piece on jewelry in college. I said I was hurt but that I understood. My aunt proceeded to say that, however, she has a lot of things she needs like new clothes and dorm stuff and she could really use the money. She proceeds to say that she's talked to my cousin and it would be great if I could just Venmo her all of the money I spent on the watch.

​I was so floored. If I had wanted to give her a cash gift I would have, but the only reason I spent that much money is because my sisters and I have all gotten that same watch from our Grandma and I didn't want her to feel hurt or left out. I thought it would be a nice surprise, but it was a lot for me and I had financed it, and it would be really financially uncomfortable for me to cough up such a large amount of money in one month. I let her know this.

​I told all of that to my Aunt, and she proceeds to call me an Indian Giver and say that's disgusting, that I can't just not give my cousin a gift because she didn't want the watch, that I was ridiculous to give such an expensive piece of jewelry to a teenager, and that I should be proud of her for being responsible enough to want to spend the money on things that are more practical for her in this stage of her life. She said that it was incredibly tacky and selfish to get her so excited like this but then change my mind.

​So WIBTA if I didn't give her the money?

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA For requesting that the embedded gratuity in my restaurant bill be removed?

TLDR: Grumpy server forgets my order, so I request that my embedded gratuity (18% automatically included for all members of a party greater than 6) be taken out, and she starts to cry. AITA?

A couple of years ago I went out to a dinner for my friend's birthday. We went to a fairly nice place, later in the night (8pm) and had a group of about 10 of us.

The waitress was clearly very busy, and possibly the restaurant understaffed (hard to tell), but we were at a nice, popular restaurant, on a weekend night, so I am/was assuming there would be good service.

The reason I say she was very busy is because she was very slow to come and take our drink orders, as well as our food orders, and come by to ask if we needed refills/check in on us. But she would only come by about every 30 minutes.

She eventually comes by to take our food orders, and when she gets to me, I ask her if there are any vegetarian dishes that she recommended (between 3 that I was considering), or if there were any popular choices for that variety. She replies that it's all good, and that any of the dishes on the entire menu can be converted to vegetarian. I was not aware of this option, so I asked her again if she had could just recommend one of my initial 3 picks. She then repeated herself that they were all good, and seemed very grumpy at this point.

I always try to not be overly difficult around servers, and understand that they can be very busy, but at this point she was coming across as rude, so I just picked one at random, to end the interaction. 45 minutes later our food starts to come out, and as the dishes are being passed around, mine was nowhere to be found. I asked her where it was, and she said she must have forgotten it.

My food finally comes half an hour later (my friends are done their food at this point) and it's cold. The menu explicitly said "served on bed of warm noodles". But again, I'm not going to make a scene, so I just go along and eat my food (that wasn't even very good, but that's not her fault).

All in all we were there for almost 3 hours, and when the bills start to come around (separate bills). It states that I ordered more drinks than I actually did, I tell her that those drinks belonged to someone else at the table. She very grumpily/hesitantly goes to fix the bills, and this time around I notice that there's an 18% gratuity included in everyone's bills.

By this point I am also grumpy, and kind of tired of this sever, and ask that this gratuity be removed, as I did not enjoy this experience at all (I had gone up and explained this to her at her server stand, as to not make a scene in front of everyone). She tells me that she can't take it out, and she actually starts crying. When I see her crying I apologize, and just tell her it's fine and to leave it in.

Looking back on this now I feel both justified, but also kind of cringey (and feel bad).

So, what do you think? AITA for requesting that my embedded gratuity be removed?

EDIT: Thank you everyone for the replies, and for taking time with thoughtful responses. It has become very apparent that the resounding response is YTA. I now know why I still remember this scenario more so than any other restaurant interaction, and I will try my best to be a better customer in the future.

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE
Dear Amy: I’m a young professional, working as a banker at a local branch. I have been going to the same therapist for nearly three years and I absolutely adore her. She has helped me beyond words. I treasure our wonderful connection and relationship.
Here lies the issue: I am technically stalking her.
My therapist banks where I work. I have access to her accounts and check daily, observing her spending habits. I am also privy to her personal information; address, date of birth and social security number, although I have not searched for her home.
I am mortified with my behavior, yet I find myself unable to stop. It gives me insight into who she is as a person, which makes me feel closer to her.
I would be absolutely devastated if she knew – and I can only assume she would terminate our relationship. I can’t talk to anyone about this. I feel it’s truly abhorrent behavior, and I don’t want to be judged. Help!
– Secretive Searcher

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Feb 16, 2011

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Dear Amy: I’m a young professional, working as a banker at a local branch. I have been going to the same therapist for nearly three years and I absolutely adore her. She has helped me beyond words. I treasure our wonderful connection and relationship.
Here lies the issue: I am technically stalking her.
My therapist banks where I work. I have access to her accounts and check daily, observing her spending habits. I am also privy to her personal information; address, date of birth and social security number, although I have not searched for her home.
I am mortified with my behavior, yet I find myself unable to stop. It gives me insight into who she is as a person, which makes me feel closer to her.
I would be absolutely devastated if she knew – and I can only assume she would terminate our relationship. I can’t talk to anyone about this. I feel it’s truly abhorrent behavior, and I don’t want to be judged. Help!
– Secretive Searcher
Get a new therapist to help you talk about your relationship with your therapist.

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Nov 29, 2003
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Dear Amy: My wife and I are struggling on how to handle our relationship with our new daughter-in-law. No matter what, it seems impossible to draw her into the fold of our family and to shower her with love and affection.
She is moody and often cold and indifferent. She and my son live a couple of hours away in a major city, and both of them have big jobs that keep them busy.
Unfortunately, we are forced to compete for their time with her parents, who live much closer to them. This really hurts us because we now have a 1-year-old grandchild.
Even though we have sought to alternate holidays, she and her mother always have some excuse as to why they can’t come to our home. We have to wait until the day after. We are not asked to offer childcare advice.
We are constantly angry and hurt over her passive aggression. She was wonderful with us before they got married, but all that seems to be in the past. We have a very close relationship with our only son, who tries to make everyone happy.
His high-paying job is demanding and stressful. We worry about confronting this, adding to his stress, and possibly losing them both.
– Desperate in the Burbs

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