I broke my Dad’s super expensive guitar and then blamed my brothers

I’ve got a big family (5 brothers 2 sisters and me…the guitar murderer) and we are all pretty musical. We had a family band growing up and would play and perform all over.

One day somebody left my Dad’s precious guitar on the couch and l I jumped over the back of the couch to sit down and cracked the neck.

I looked around quick and realized no one was there so I bolted. Dad came home saw his guitar and lost it.

My Dad always favored my brothers and I knew he wouldn’t be as mad at them as he would at me if I broke it so I said they were rough-housing all day in the living room.

He basically did nothing as I’d anticipated. I still feel bad. Not for lying to my Dad but for breaking that beautiful guitar.

It was a high end Gibson.

Hey, so my friend and I were talking during a lecture. You know, whispering. Since it’s my second time taking the course, I talked a bit more than usual but tried not to bother anyone.

My vision is bad so I always sit really close to the professor so that I can understand the presentation. I sit in the 3rd row and for some reason, everybody else resorts to rows 7 and further up. That’s usually at my uni.

At the break of the lecture, my friend and I just start talking at usual speaking volume.

All of a sudden, a guy really aggressively storms down, focuses completely on me, less on my friend (23, m), and starts yelling: “Shut your F Mouth, you two! People can hear you up to the last row, it’s really not bearable, shut the f up!!!”

And I responded that we didn’t mean to bother anyone, but I couldn’t help but ask why he couldn’t have said that in a friendly manner.

I surely didn’t bother him on purpose, I was simply unaware that my talking was bothering people more than the other people’s occasional talking. I have also been bothered by people’s conversations before but I approach and ask kindly if they could try keeping it down a bit more.

The guy responds: “because you guys have already been bothering me last week!!” So I asked: “Then why didn’t you come and tell us kindly last week?”

And he responded: “Because I wanted to be friendly! For real though, shut the F up!” He seemed very intimidating. My friend and I would have been quiet had somebody told us we were bothersome sooner. We didn’t mean to disturb others. The guy leaves up to his seat (3 rows behind us, not in the last row at all) and the story is over.

I understand I did something wrong and it was never my intention to bother the man, but I fail to understand how it was ok to explode at us like that. 200 other people are still present in the lecture hall.

He was way louder than the entire lecture or people taking a break had been. I have never seen him, met him nor talked to him before. Am I in the wrong for talking and getting upset that I was yelled at?

For context im 24 and my partner is 31, we also live with a roommate who is 26. I have been with him for 3+ years and the roommate has lived with us for about a year.

So semi-recently I realized that I was being forced to do every single chore as well as keep up with finances, run both the roommate and him to their separate jobs every day, make sure rent is paid on time, etc.

I tried having a conversation with both of them a month or so back, that even if I was stay at home I simply cannot manage EVERYTHING. (I am not stay at home I have a full time job) I told them that I shouldn’t have to ask them to do the dishes every once in a while, or take the trash out if they notice its full. They both then said “well ask us for help” I tried to do that and I was told that they were tired or that they would get to it later. (Spoiler they don’t do it)

The house in such dissarry and trashed, the toilet hasn’t been cleaned, dishes haven’t been done, their laundry is piling up, trash hasn’t been taken out and the floors are disgusting. I wanted to see how long it would take for them to clean 1 singular thing and neither of them can be assed to do it.

Even after all of that im still getting told “oh by the way the trash needs taken out. The dishes need done, you should clean the cat box, (not my cat btw), my laundry needs done,etc” and those are only the cleaning chores, I still shop for the house, take care of Financials and have everyone’s schedules on my phone so I can wake them both up in the morning so they get to their jobs on time.

Here are what netizens think:

• Ask us for help sounds like they are doing you a favor rather than just keeping up with doing their share.

• Oh God get out! Find a new place to live. Find an actual adult to room with if you need to. Your partner is thirty-one, you shouldn’t have to mother him or spend your time forcing him to do things all normal adults do. 

• This is called weaponized incompetence and you need to leave now. It won’t get better.

I, (18F), have a boyfriend (19M). We’ve been dating for around 2 months. Our relationship together has been great so far.

Things go smoothly until I tell him about a guy from an entirely different state.

This guy is his age, in a band, and sometimes a bit of a mess mentally and emotionally wise, especially after a breakup he experienced 3.5 months back. I’ve been there, strictly as a friend, to support him and help him through times. Around a month after breaking up, this guy consistently flirted with me (only at night, which you know how that goes) and said things like appreciating my kindness, my patience, etc. To clarify, yes, this is before my boyfriend and I dated, however, he did know I liked my boyfriend at the time.

My responses were always dry.

I tell my boyfriend about these incidents. Complete mistake because every few days or so, if he even sees a single text on my phone from this different state guy, he’ll be upset for the entire day until I finally get him to tell me what’s wrong. It even gets bad if I briefly mention him. I think he wants me to stop talking to him but I mainly follow him to watch the progress of his band and send each other memes/videos. That’s all we ever do anyways when we text.

My boyfriend thinks the guy stopped flirting because he wants to get close to me, allowing himself to get “chance” from me even though that’s clearly not his intention. Should I just block him for the sake of a happy relationship?

Here are what netizens think:

• Doesn’t sound like your boyfriend has ordered you around or anything… What on Earth is the point of telling your partner about how a guy flirted with you about a month before you started dating though? It’s no surprise he’s wary of your friendship.

• this is huge red flag. If after 2 months he’s insinuating you having to cut ties with your long distant friend, and you do, then imagine after 6 months what he’ll expect for the ones much closer to you. Once all your guy friends are out of the picture he’ll move on to eliminating the girls because “they’re bad influences”. That’s usually how it happens anyway. Don’t let it.

• You’ve only been dating for 60 days and he wants to tell you who your friends should be? Not a good sign.

• your partner is trying to control your friendship with someone because of their own jealousy. This is not a good sign after only two months. If this is what they’re like now, be aware of attempts later on to stop you speaking with, meeting or hanging out with other male friends.

My wife is a stay at home mom for our 2 kids and I work full-time as the sole income provider for the family. I am slowly working on paying back my student loans.

My wife recently received a relatively large inheritance, about 10x the number of my student loans.

A month after everything regarding the inheritance was settled, I talked with my wife about using the inheritance to pay off my loans. She refused to give me any of the money and said the inheritance belongs only to her. I told her that, yes, legally that’s true but we are a family and we should share our resources to make our burdens easier.

She disagreed and said my student loans pre-date our marriage and are my sole responsibility.

I felt like she was being unfair to our relationship and to us as a family, so the next day I told her that if she was not going to help me pay off her student loans, now that she has money I will not be paying for any expense that is solely hers (like clothes, eating out, flights, makeup, spas, new phone, etc.).

Instead, I will be putting that money towards my loans to pay them back faster. She accused me of being controlling with money and abusing my position as the income-earner but I don’t see why I should be responsible for all that when she has her own money now?

Here are what netizens think:

• Sometimes woman want an emergency fund. Especially if their husband is controlling, or other red flags.

• I agree with you. It’s been made clear to him by his wife that his debt is his debt and that he’s on his own — and of course he wants to clear it off as soon as possible. And if that means putting an extra $500 towards it instead of his wife’s non-necessities, which she can now afford herself — then it is perfectly reasonable for him to do so.

• But the money he’s putting into the household is essentially paying her in a way for childcare, cooking and cleaning, that’s how it works when one parent stays home.

A netizen shared a story about how he went to a Thai disco with his friends and saw his father inside, drinking with a siambu.

Here is the story

I went *club name redacted* with my friends at *location redacted* a few weeks ago to celebrate my one of my friend’s birthday.

We ordered about 10 towers for the 4 of us and planned to have a really good time, anyway all 4 of us were single and we were trying to see if we could hook up with a siambu at the disco.

We were about 6 towers in, and I had drank probably the most because one of my friends was spending the whole night trying to siam drinks.

Needless to say, I was floating a little bit already.

I looked around trying to check out the siambus and i glanced across a table that was probably 5 tables across from our table.

I saw my dad.

He was drinking with a siambu and I thought I saw wrong, so I stumbled across to his table to confirm and yep, it was indeed him.

Just for a little bit of context, my parents have what I thought was a happy marriage and I always thought they loved each other.

I asked him what he was doing there, and he just said he was unwinding after work. I even saw him hanging $100 flower for the siambu that was drinking at his table.

He warned me not to say anything to my mother, which of course I kept the secret.

Anyway the night went on and I figured screw it (plus i was also pretty drunk), so I asked my dad and his siambu to join us at our table.

We even asked his siambu to introduce some girls and my friend even managed to bring her back to a hotel.

They have been texting almost every day ever since.

What a night huh?

Editor’s note: Never jio your mother to come along next time also?