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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/sugarplumcakepop on 2023-09-04 20:14:43.

I’m at my apartments pool laying in one of the chairs and I brought my pool noodle with me that’s actually pretty heavy duty. I got it from Sam’s club. The pool has their own noodles, but they’ve all been chewed up and ripped up, but there are still a couple in a semi ok condition. Anyway this little kid comes over and is like “excuse me, can I use this?l and I said, very gently, “no sorry, it’s mine”. Then he runs away and tells his brother and the next thing I know he’s coming over to me saying “if you’re not using it, why can’t you can let him use it.” To which I replied, after a moment of being stunned that he even came over to me in the first place, “bro, this is literally my noodle. I paid for it. I’m not giving it to some random kid I don’t know just to get it back with bite marks on it.” Then he literally calls me a bitch and walks away. I don’t think I’m the asshole, but???

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    1•10 months ago

    YTA for the way you said it.

    • Kids don’t realize there’s different ownership models for the various pool toys. They think all the pool toys come from a bin and people “own” them only as long as they’re playing with them.
    • There’s no reason to just presume the kids are going to gnaw on your pool noodle
    • You went zero to sixty in terms of your hostility level. You basically got mad as if the kids were purposefully ignoring commonly-known facts. You should have just said “Sorry this one is mine so I don’t loan it out”