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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Anonymous0212 on 2024-03-06 08:21:23.

I don’t remember the exact circumstances now because this was back when I was a resentful, hormonal teenager half a century ago or so (fuck I’m old.) I think my mother was going shopping, and I wanted to go with her but she told me I had to stay home and do chores, including watering all the plants. I apparently didn’t immediately react in a polite enough manner, so she reiterated in a louder voice, “you need to water ALL the plants!”

So I did.

Including her precious roses in the backyard.

In the middle of winter.

When she got home and let the dog out and noticed water-related evidence in the backyard that should not have been there she started shrieking at me, what did I do, how could I be so stupid, was I trying to kill her roses, etc., and I just looked her straight in the eye and said “you told me to water ALL the plants.”

(And no, the roses did not die because it didn’t get cold enough that night.)