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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Virtual_Yoghurt52 on 2023-10-05 17:31:27.

I was at a water park last week and my friends and I went into the lazy river. To my knowledge, I thought you were meant to lay in the tube with your belly facing up and just kinda let the water push you through the course freely.

This particular lazy river has certain areas that move much faster than others, so I found it difficult to maintain control and avoid bumping into other tubes as much as I’d like.

There was a woman, without any tube, just walking slowly in the lazy river holding a baby. Unfortunately the course of the water pushed my tube right behind her; I tried to paddle myself away but the current and other tubes now up behind me prevented me from being able to move myself. I ended up nearly right up behind her, bumping into her a couple times with my tube.

She turns to me and shouts right in my face, “You’re bumping into me and I’m holding a BABY” and I wasn’t expecting it so I panicked and apologized and said I can’t control it, and started clawing at the concrete to try and stop myself but I couldn’t. I feel like I may be TA for this here, because I argued back rather than finding a solution that actually helped in that moment.

I feel like a huge asshole and complete idiot. I keep replaying the events in my head, what should I have done differently? Should I have tried to get out of my tube to stop myself? I also feel like that would’ve bumped her more as I’m trying to get myself out of a big tube in a crowded part of the lazy river.

I can’t stop thinking about this interaction. So Reddit, AITA?