u/Emotional_Donut7003

AITA for getting rude with my dad.

So about a week ago my father was asking me and my siblings if we wanted to attend a festival with him and a family member. Usually when he asks if we want to attend something like a festival, celebration, or anything like that we usually say no because we know he doesn't want to go and will get upset if we say yes. This was like all the other time and he gave us a list of reasons we might not want to attend like the condition of our vehicles and whether they would be serving alcohol we are an alcoholic free family and my father seriously tries to avoid it. So me and my siblings said no and thought that would be the end of it but then my older brother looked the festival up and saw that the festival was using AI for all their advertisements. Including what events would be hosted and the merchandise they were selling. When my brother brought this up I didn't think much of it because my father had already decided we were not going but then my father got upset saying how would we know we would not like the festival just because they used AI images. My brother and father immediately started arguing about this with my father continuing to say my brother couldn't say he would not like the festival because it used AI and that maybe the festival did not have time to take photos, the festival has been planned since the middle of April. Now I know I probably should not have said anything to them or gotten into the conversation but sometimes I feel like my father is a bit of a hypocrite. Every time I go to look up a place for us to visit or go for vacation or a road trip he always asks me if they have any reviews or pictures and if they do not he usually says it's not a good idea to go. I was also very confused why this had to be a big deal considering we had already agreed we were not going. This is the part where I got a bit rude with him he asked me why I was not understanding what he was saying and I said I just couldn't. I knew as soon as I saw the look on his face that I had said the wrong thing and since then I have been avoiding him. I know he is entitled to his own opinion and I shouldn't have gone rude with him and I should not have entered the argument between him and my brother. But at the same time I'm still kind of upset cuz I feel like this argument didn't have to happen because we had already made a decision about not going to the festival and why would it matter about the images now. I also know I was kind of acting like a child by entering the argument to back up my brother we are both adults I'm 18 and he is 22 so we probably should not have made a big deal out of this either and my brother should not have brought up the images and I should not have entered the argument. So AITA and should I apologize or just wait it out until my dad is not mad anymore.

Ps. Sorry if my grammar is really bad this is my first post and I wasn't sure if I should post this or not.

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u/Emotional_Donut7003 — 14 days ago