AITAH For getting so annoyed “with a child”?
I feel like I know how this will go but I’m genuinely still too annoyed.
On holiday with groups of friends - and kids. Three families really.
After a nice day by the pool and we’re catching the lifts to the rooms when one child, 10, not mine, thinks it’s acceptable to knock my beer over me. (The beers are half pints so say a quarter pint spilt on me) The child laughs and I, in annoyance, chuck another 100ml of the beer over him. (Not so funny apparently)
Now I knew the child had done it deliberately, I watched him line it up and he even admitted to it later by justifying that he had “done it because…“ (because I’d made a joke about someone - my partner, who was stood beside me, jokes are our love language) but it all happened so quickly including my kneejerk reaction and I’ve held my hands up that I shouldnt have.
(Particularly annoying as I’d queued for the beer so I could have that amazing balcony beer in my room while others got ready)
I know I *shouldnt* have done it… but a spoilt ten year old child, who has never been told no, who thinks it’s ok to disrespect an adult friend of their parents and then laugh?!?
If I’d done such a thing as a child I wouldn’t have sat down for a week!
If my ten year old child had done it, they’d have been sent straight around to apologise.
So now the whole atmosphere of the holiday has been ruined.
AITAH? I am absolutely certain (due to prior record) that even had I not reacted, there would have been no apology forthcoming from the child or parents.
So now I’m sat fuming that I’m not even worth so much as an apology or a recognition that I shouldn’t be being disrespected by a ten year old on my holidays… I’ve a ten year old of my own for that!