u/sunnyafternoone

Am I the ash-hole for telling my friend that if she doesn't stop asking me questions about The Good Place, I'm going to lie to her?

Am I the ash-hole for telling my friend that if she doesn't stop asking me questions about The Good Place, I'm going to lie to her?

My friend (who I'm going to call Sydney) and I are currently watching season 1 of the show. I have seen the show multiple times already but this is her first time ever watching it. I convinced her to watch it with me because 1. She's an attentive show-watcher, and 2. She somehow knew virtually no spoilers about this show (I had also known nothing about it going into the show at first) so she was a SEEMINGLY perfect person to show The Good Place to. I quickly realized that this was not going to go well when she started constantly asking questions like "Is Janet actually telling the truth?", "Wait, so Eleanor really belongs here?" and "Is Tahani actually evil?". Like, I obviously KNOW the answers here but I have refused to spoil anything to her because I can't ruin this opportunity for her to be ACTUALLY surprised at plot twists and cliff hangers.
She got increasingly suspicious and asked me to confirm or deny her theories. Eventually I got so fed up that I just replied, "I'm not answering any more questions because literally anything I say could ruin the show for you." She got annoyed and said she thinks I'm being dramatic and that refusing to answer is basically just confirming her theories anyway. I brushed it off but literally the NEXT episode she was asking questions again. I was already feeling pretty fed up so after the 3rd question of that episode I just replied with something like, "Fine. From now on, I'm going to deliberately give you the wrong answer every time." I feel bad about this because she responded with, "Well then I'm going to spend the entire show wondering whether you're lying to me."
While I hope this doesn't ruin the show for her, and I want don't want to lie to my friend, I feel like she was being pretty pushy even after I specifically told her I wouldn't answer her questions. Am I the ash-hole?

u/sunnyafternoone — 21 hours ago
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u/sunnyafternoone — 15 days ago

AITAH for kicking my friends out that let a stranger sleep over at my best friend's birthday party?

I don't think I've ever felt the need to use this subreddit before but this has genuinely infuriated me.
A few weeks ago, with my Best Friends birthday coming up (Im just gonna call them Alex here) I decided to host their birthday party at my house and they said that would be great. I established some rules with them and everyone else invited like "invited guests only"
"nobody stays the night", "keep noise reasonable" etc. and they all agreed. I spent the next week or so buying decorations, cleaning up my house and everything before the party. Later when the party happens and everyone's arriving, I see a few of me and Alex's mutuals bringing somebody I don't recognize.
I ask them who the stranger is and one of them responds "they're with us". I let it slide because of Alex's birthday but later I hear from a few people that those mutuals told the stranger he can SLEEP in MY house for the night on MY couch. My eyes went to tunnel vision and had to push through people to find the mutuals with Alex in my backyard. I asked them why they hadn't told me or even checked with me after I SPECIFICALLY told them that no one was allowed to stay the night especially strangers who were uninvited.
They responded with something along the lines of
"stop making a huge deal out of nothing, it's like you're TRYING to make Alex's birthday about yourself." I looked over at Alex who had been standing there the whole time looking for ANY sort of support but instead, Alex said. "Can you just let it go? I know you didn't invite him, but he's not hurting anyone, all you're doing is just embarrassing everyone on my birthday". This didn't even make me angry, I was just shocked that my best friend was so CEARLY okay with our friends just breaking my boundaries that I explicitly stated to them so I just snapped and told the group of mutuals and the stranger to leave. Alex was very upset that I kicked them out and asked what was wrong with me. The rest of the party went... okay? But Alex hasn't talked or texted with me since then. Am I the asshole?

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u/sunnyafternoone — 18 days ago