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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/xiphoid77 on 2023-09-02 14:37:04.

This was a few months ago but a friend of mine brought it up and thought why not post on Reddit… McDonald’s was having their Monopoly game. They had game stickers on their cups. They had the cups at the self checkout kiosks that you would pull out if you ordered a soda so you can have your drink while you await your food.

My husband and I were enjoying our cheap meal (without victory in the McDonald’s game) as we watched a girl around 8 start pulling out cups from the self serve area and pull off the game stickers to reveal the prizes. She pulled out about 10 cups and I had enough and said “stop doing that”. She ran to her mom standing by the counter (like 7 feet away if that) and started crying.

I told the mom what she was doing and the mom said the game stickers were free anyway and she could do that and I was a bad man. Then the one other customer in the store came up and yelled at me for making a little girl cry.

Now the manager came over and I explained to all what the girl was doing and the manager said nothing (he was caught between yelling parties and probably rightly stayed quiet). The mom and the other gentlemen started belittling me saying “don’t you feel like a big man now making a little girl cry”. I again explained she was in the wrong and I was pointing that out. She was stealing cups and game pieces. The man told me I better leave and I was physically sick to my stomach and shaking (not from the food I think). I am very confrontation avoidant but I hate stealing. She was also just dropping the used cups on the floor and littering which also bugs me.

I have thought about this incident a lot - learned I should never try to discipline another persons kid, but am most annoyed at the other gentleman for taking her side when I don’t think I did anything wrong. But maybe I should have just remained quiet and not said anything.