by theonlyaschneider_
I am a 24F. Last week I went in town to deposit a paycheck and informed my brother (18M) where I'd be going. He asked if I was already going into town if I could pick up his skin cream from the pharmacy. He said it should've already been pre paid for. I said yes.
I picked up his cream from the pharmacy and the cashier told me it would be ten dollars. I had assumed it wouldn't be pre paid for already but paid for it with my money. When I got home, I handed my brother his skin cream and left him alone.
Yesterday was the first time I really got to have a proper conversation with him since he and I were at work at different times throughout the week. I told him about his skin cream and that he owes me ten dollars since it wasn't pre paid for. It's his prescription, not mine.
He immediately said no, that it wasn't his choice to get a new prescription cream and he never wanted the new cream in the first place. I understand it wasn't a lot of money anyways but I still demanded he pay me back since it was my money that I spent on something that wasn't for me. He told me to leave it be and if I was really desperate for my money to ask our mom to pay me back since she was the one who ordered the skin cream anyways.
My parents told me to just leave it be and that they would give me the money if I was that desperate for it. I said no, that my brother has a job and since it was his skin cream, he should be the one to reimburse me. I asked my brother to pay me back once more and if he didn't, I wouldn't pick up stuff for him anymore.
Now my parents are telling me I overreacted to the situation and to let it go. My brother said I didn't have to be so pushy and act like I spent a lot of money on one thing. Now I'm questioning if I was acting entitled and should forget about it.
AITA for demanding my brother pay me back?
by Ergophobic--
I (28F) recently had my birthday and invited some of my friends and family over for a birthday dinner. My guests all brought me birthday gifts which I appreciated and one of my friends (29M) gifted me one of his favorite books he had been telling me to read since forever but I had never gotten around to. It was called Dungeon Crawler Carl and one of the reasons I never read it even though I am a big reader to begin with is because it seemed almost certainly not my thing. If you don't know, the book is basically like a novelized version of a video game with the character fighting bosses, completing levels, and opening up loot boxes. While I enjoy the occasional video game, I wouldn't qualify myself as a gamer and reading something like that seemed to me to obviously be something I would find a chore.
I thanked him for the gift and promised him I would read it. I started it and got about halfway through before finally giving up. I found the humor grating and the video game mechanics aspect very tedious and annoying to read. This isn't me saying my opinion is objectively correct on this and that no one should read it, but it was absolutely not for me and I knew it wouldn't suddenly click for me and I would enjoy it if I read further.
Later, my friend asked me what I thought about the book and I told him the truth that I got halfway through it and decided not to finish it as I was not enjoying it at all. He got surprisingly upset with me and said he was frustrated that I couldn't read through it all at least before rejecting his gift. I told him I wasn't rejecting the gift and I was appreciative of the gesture but he shrugged that off and has been cold to me ever since.
AITA?
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