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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Spare_Drummer2979 on 2023-07-19 14:13:28.
I am 22, now I know I am more cynical then the average person but I really do believe that no good deed goes unpunished. My partner is much more up beat than me so we balance out.
Now my sister and I have a nephew, he is 13 and I’m sad to say he is just a lot of trouble. Really waiting for him to grow out of it, his parents try but he is the type of kid that will blow out the birthday candles at a birthday party. Every time he goes somewhere he does something.
Now there was a family get together and his parents couldn’t come so he wasn’t going. So my sister offered to take him and he could sleep at her place. I told her this was a bad idea. She ignored it and did the plan.
She called me this morning about how he was a terror at home and broke some of her stuff. I said, told you so and she called me a jerk. She went to mom and she is on sister side
People are so cynical they think valuable things have no value.
The functional purpose of “I told you so” isn’t to hurt people, it’s to wake them up to the fact that they have a valuable source of advice that they are ignoring.
