Emily Duprie
Last Thanksgiving, a woman went viral on the subreddit “Am I The A-hole?” after she served justice instead of the turkey at her boyfriend’s family dinner. After repetitively being called her boyfriend’s ex’s name by his mother, OP (original poster) absolutely snapped.
I have yet to hear of a level of this pettiness since, but am always looking to see someone top this story. With Thanksgiving coming up, who knows what could happen? Read the story below to understand why it was revenge this peeved off woman decided to serve on Thanksgiving.
OP asked, unironically: “AITA for ruining thanksgiving?”
OP began her plea by explaining that her boyfriend had dated a family-favorite girl before he met her. So, she explained how her BF’s mother felt about this.
I (30f) met my bf (30m) 3 years ago. Before me, he was together with his HS sweetheart. They fell out of love and broke up. A year later we started dating. His mom however was still heartbroken about it. I was very understanding and thought she needed time to get to know me. The ex basically grew up with them and they saw her as a part of the family.
Her boyfriend’s mom would intentionally call her the wrong name.
For the first year of my relationship his mom would call me ex’s name, until bf got angry once and told her to be nice. She laughed it off and said it was just a habit. After that she started calling me the wrong name. (Janet instead of Jenny; fictional names just for the story). I corrected her a couple of times but she seemed to like hurting me so I ignored it later.
So one day at a BBQ…
My bf has two sisters and a couple of weeks before thanksgiving we were invited to bbq at the older sister’s house. I was in the kitchen with my bf’s mom, the sisters and one of their husbands. The older sister then talked about how my BF praised my cooking to her husband and the mom was listening. She then said iut loud “SURE! Why don’t we let Janet make the turkey this year?”. The sisters giggled and looked at each other and I said “thats a great idea!” I didn’t tell my bf what happened.
OP then executed the most perfect payback possible…
On thanksgiving we went to his mom’s house with the usual wine and dessert. She was shocked, everybody was shocked. I said “What? I thought Janet is bringing the turkey!” There was yelling, crying and then we got kicked out. My bf is so angry with me he hasn’t talked to me since. I think it’s over tbh. But I still don’t think I did anything wrong! Did I?
Redditor’s called OP a “justified a-hole” for her epic ploy to finally get a little respect. Since that’s not an official judgement, she was instead voted “Not The A-hole” in this situation. Her bf and his mother on the other hand….
