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AITA for getting my roommate to hook up with my ex to get my favourite coffee mug back?

Originally posted to r/AmItheAsshole

Original Post  June 8, 2019

I collect coffee mugs shaped as cool things. Anyways, I dated a guy for a year that brought me back this mug from the states shaped as a shark, handle was a fin (semi-expensive mug, I looked into buying another one). I LOVE sharks more than anything, so this was the perfect gift. This mug was so perfect that I would never use it for coffee because coffee wasn’t worthy of this mug.

When we broke up, despite my love for the shark mug, I put it in the “box of stuff” you give back to your ex, thinking it would bring back too many memories. Now, a year later I’m happily with someone else and these memories are no longer. I basically just want my favourite mug back.

My roommate who is newly single is on tinder happened to match with my ex, I explained the mug story and now we’ve made it a mission for her to go over there, hookup with him, and take the mug in the morning. To be fair, he’s only looking for the hook up as he has stated in his profile, so no emotional sabotage.

Edit: to be fair, she was already planning on hooking up with him anyways, I just told her to comment on the mug if she saw it to be funny, she said she would just get it back.

VERDICT: ASSHOLE

RELEVANT COMMENTS

extrabagel

YTA but this is so funny that I don’t care.

SelfANew

Mission Impossible Theme plays in the background

Mystery_Substance

Jaws theme plays after that.

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upyourbumchum

YTA but who cares! Hilarious and keep on keeping on. This is like a Seinfeld episode.

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OrangeDoormat

YTA. So you’re pimping your friend for a mug? Nice.

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Lelra

YTA But have her check his cabinets for other cool mugs as well. If you’re going to steal one, might as well keep going.

OOP

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA. Could you imagine.

Itsalrightmeow

“Man I slept with this girl last night and when she left, half my mugs were gone!”

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[deleted]

YTA, but do it anyway because you’re a pimp, and if a pimp wants it, a pimp gets it.

Pls Update

OOP Updated the same post

Update: I know you all desperately want this edit. He’s invited her over to check out his new place when he’s done moving (with a wink at the end of course). So progress, unpack kitchen essentials and chill anyone?

EMERGENCY UPDATE: the ex and my roommate are still talking, but now my ex’s roommate has also matched with her on tinder and is asking her to come over (same house). This plot twist is fucking unreal.

[update]—- operation shark rescue it currently a go! Wish ya luck reddit!

AITA for pimping out my friend to get my shark mug back- the sequel  Jan 17, 2020 (6 months later)

hello again Reddit, and thank you for coming with me on operation shark mug. I am please to update you all on this fine Thursday; this is what has happened:

The roommate did in fact sleep with the ex, the roommate did in fact see the mug and she also DID NOT take it back. The sex was inevitable. I thought all was lost in operation shark mug, my dreams crushed to say the least. Game over.

BUT THEN

I recently was in a wedding which the ex attended as a close friend. Him and I made conversation about the roommate, about the mug, and eventually I came clean about the plan (yeah, that’s right, I’m not a total dickhead after all) he told me that it was a hilarious plan, but that he had to be honest with me. The shark mug, you see, was too important to use as well. So… the fate of the shark mug is… his fucking toothbrush holder.  He sent me picture evidence later that evening, and I told him I deserved it for the plan I hatched. End of the day, it was a good laugh for all.

The end.

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