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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/patsay on 2023-06-28 15:14:06+00:00.
When my son was in high school, I gave him a box of expensive, gourmet Chapel Hill Toffee for Christmas. Then he started asking me to put it on the grocery list. I told him it was a special treat, not a staple, and it wouldn’t go on the list, and he argued with me.
So, when I was at Costco, I found a huge jar of good toffee. Not as good as the small batch gourmet Chapel Hill Toffee, but still good toffee. I bought it and stored it in my closet and filled up the Chapel Hill Toffee box. I put the CHT box full of Costco toffee in the pantry.
For about a month, he ate the Costco toffee. I continued to fill the fancy small box with toffee from the bulk container in my closet. Then I finally just put the (now half-full) big Costco toffee container in the pantry and waited for him to notice. It took a few days.
He was not amused.
“But was the toffee good? You certainly ate it, and didn’t complain about it.”
I think he was being a bit of an asshole to demand/expect expensive toffee after he had been gifted it, so my actions were justified and amusing. I admit that I tricked him, but it was a harmless trick and he enjoyed the toffee.
He’s still kind of mad about the deception. My neighbor recently gifted us a box of Chapel Hill Toffee, which caused me to recall the incident from 5 years ago. I laughed about it, but he did not.
I feel like this is just an advert disguised as an AITA post.
That is an ad for Costco toffee or the way too expensive toffee? Because what I’m thinking is why would I bother spending a lot on small batch toffee when Costco’s is indistinguishable?