Walking

This question is influenced by a video I saw where a guy explained that he was unintentionally the “creepy guy” because he was walking behind a woman in a park. As a woman it honestly never occurred to me that innocent men can be deemed as creepy just because they just so happen to be walking the same direction. Is this something you guys naturally take into consideration when walking?

Edit: WOW I was not expecting this much of a response

Edit: Thanks to u/Ok-Brother-2337 for sending me such a lovely message calling me a dumb, unattractive, attention seeker for just asking an innocent question.

I've been living with my roommate for about a year now. He's a nice fellow and we get along just fine. His girlfriend is often around and is also a very nice person. We never really had problems so far.

I don't generally stay at home for long periods of time, it's essentially just a sleep/eat place. I work a lot of hours and a lot of overtime. It's the nature of my job, since I'm still new on my work place and all that.

Usually, I get home around ten or eleven in the evening and leave my home at eight. So yes, I work a lot and don't really spend a lot of time there. Yesterday, I managed to receive some good graces with my boss and he told me I could go home early (Around six, and yes, I know it's not really early, but for me it is.)

I got home and I was already craving some unhealthy food and my bed. It was Friday, so yeah, I was looking forward to it. My apartment isn't that big and our door opens up to the living room.

Once I pushed it open I unwillingly saw my roommate and his girlfriend having sex. In our living room, in OUR couch. They were startled and I immediately closed the door in front of me, and said through the door "Go to your room".

After some sounds I hear his door close up. I opened the door and that was it. I mean, it's embarrassing to walk in on someone, but that can happen, it is not the end of the world.

I went to the bathroom, had a shower and went to my room to watch some Netflix, and thought that was it. After a few hours my roommate took his GF home and came to talk to me. Initially, I thought he would apologize for being... less than careful.

However that wasn't the case. This dude started to get mad at me for not "Letting them know I would be home early". He said that his GF was completely ashamed and I should APOLOGIZE to her.

Now, I'm usually a very calm person. But this dude, is right here telling me to apologize for getting in MY HOME early. While he has a PERFECTLY good bedroom. The apartment has a very good sound isolation due to how it was constructed, so if they wanted to go wild there I would be none the wiser.

They actively decided to do it in a place where exposition was possible. So I told him flat out. "Nah man. You're the idiot who tried to do something stupid while sharing an apartment. You didn't tell-me you were planning on doing that. I had no way of knowing. I'm sorry your girlfriend is ashamed, but I'm not apologizing."

Things escalated from that point. There was a lot of angry remarks and things s

I'm 36-mother of two girls (9/5) I met my now fiance (38) 2.5 years ago. He's a good man, Treats my girls well and loves them. future mother in law is a generous lady truth be told. His family are respectful and helpful. We visit them a lot. After we got engaged I pretty much considered this my extended family. However my mother in law tends to do things that either intentionally or unintentionally hurt my feelings for example: when there's a family dinner at a restaurant we're not invited. On Christmas my girls didn't receive anything from her while other kids in the family got gifts and cards. Also all the kids in the family get a trip once a month but my girls never participate. Mother in law excuses were "I forgot".

This week. My Future mother in law was doing family photo album and was gathering family pictures from everyone. SIL and her kids/brother in law and his kids and so on. She called and asked if I could send her some pictures. I thought that was nice of her. I sent them pretty much after my call with her ended.

We were invited to her house. The entire family was there to look at the photo album bc it was complete. We took turns to look at it. And when it was mine and my girls turn I was stunned.

Turned out she picked the pictures that had just me and her son. Not my girls. Although We took a ton of pictures. The 4 of us My girls were excited wanting to see the album then asked why their pictures weren't there. I didn't even wanna think about how they'd feel. I was caught off guard otherwise I wouldn't have let them look at the album. I asked MIL why she excluded my girls and she didn't even reply she just ignored me. My fiance stared at me. I felt awful I got up, took my girls and walked out immediately. Everyone was confused. My fiancè followed us Then we left

At home he told me that I really shouldn't have walked out before dinner and should've just ignored this whole thing because "Who cares about a stupid photo album?"

I told him It's a symbol of family. the girls felt left out when all the kids pictures were there except for the girls although I sent her pics of 4 of us as a family. He said his mom didn't mean it and promised that This will change once we get married And said he'll "get everyone in line" so I shouldn't even consider this a problem.

And that my girls are the light of his life and that's the only thing that matters. And that I was overreacting over a photo album.

Mother in law called and was upset Saying me walk

I (16F) was chosen by my school principal to tour a new girl named Fatima (16F) around the school and hang out with her for the day. I had a majority of my classes with her so the school principal decided I could help her out a bit.

While we were walking to the cafeteria, she asked me a few things about myself, like my birthday, religion, favorite movies/shows, etc.

I told her that I was Jewish and that piqued her interest in me since she was a Muslim. She started asking me a bunch of questions like "wait, doesn't that mean a farmer would love you since you can't steal his pigs? just like me!" or "why wouldn't my parents let me get a Star of David tattoo on my forehead?"

I got annoyed with her asking so many questions about my religion, so I tried to change the subject. I asked her about more general topics like siblings/the school she came from.

So instead she starts saying, "so you're Jewish? don't you speak up about what Israel does to Palestine on social media? it's best to use your voice"

Now I get this question about Israel a lot from people online and strangers in real life when they learn I'm Jewish so it gets annoying fast.

I tell her that I was born in New York and had nothing to do with the country of Israel at all.

Instead of just dropping the subject entirely she harasses me even more about it saying that "it was my duty as a Jew to stop the oppression done by other Jews"

At this point I am annoyed and tell her to drop the subject entirely or I would stop talking to her. Fatima continued to talk about Israel until I left the lunch room to go to the bathroom.

My friends sided with me after they heard the story, but the principal said that I shouldn't have walked out in someone who was curious and didn't mean harm.

AITA for walking out on the girl I was supposed to be touring?

I (f19) had a small birthday celebration. Though i didn’t even want one to begin with my mom ignored me and still planned one. So, i told her i won’t mind as long as she doesn’t play the video. My mom has this tradition i suppose, where she plays a birthday video of us (her kids) and for my siblings it’s a cute baby video of them (they get different baby videos of themselves every year) Imagine my sister’s birthday and my mom plays a clip of her when she was 2 and she’s dancing or doing something a toddler would do.

But for me? It’s the same video of my sister ruining my birthday party. In the video, she threw a tantrum because i got some makeup toy and she wanted it. Mind you, she’s a year younger than me. This was my 11th birthday. She ruins my cake, gets on the floor and kicks her legs like shes 4. The video starts with me opening presents, ends with everyone calming my sister down. I can see how it could be funny when it’s played once or twice but it loses it humor after 7 years.

When i ask my mom why she won’t ever play a video of me as a baby she uses the excuse of “but this one is funnyyyyyy”. I straight up told her if she plays the video this year, i will walk out. She gave me her word and promised not to play it and my boyfriend witnessed her saying it. So i arrived with my boyfriend, it was fine for the most part, then my mom gathers everyone and plays the video.

I grabbed my things and left without speaking a word. Now i’m getting shit for leaving. I’m getting called ungrateful and dramatic. Like i see how i could be dramatic but it always goes from my bday celebration to the discussion of how “funny” my sister behaved. And she brags about it as if it’s something to be proud of. She’ll say how it should be labeled “our birthday” because we get the same amount of screen time.

Its 3 am as i’m writing this because i’m still getting messages how i “overreacted” and i should’ve just dealt with it being played. My mom wants an apology, she said she worked hard and i shouldn’t have walked out. I feel like an asshole now for walking out and i want someone outside of my family to give me that judgment. So, AITA?

There’s a lot of comments about how my sister feels about the video. When i said, **”she brags about it as if it’s something to be proud of. She’ll say how it should be labeled “our birthday” because we get the same amount of screen time.”** i’m referring to my sister. She likes the video, she thinks it’s funny. Her attitude is stil

I’m really stumped on this one.

Jenny (24) and I (25M) have been dating for 6 months. She told me right from the start she had an unconventional set-up. She told me that she was an atheist but had been brought up as a Mormon and that her father practiced polygamy. I had to ask her what she meant and she basically stated that her parents were legally married, but she had 2 secondary moms (she calls them her dad’s partners) and she has 15 siblings from all 3 unions. I was very very stumped as I wasn’t aware the religion was widely practiced here (outside of US but in an English speaking country). She said she isn’t vocal about the inner workings of her family as she’s not sure about the legality of the whole situation but I was cool with it.

Restrictions have been eased for a while here so we talked about meeting each other’s families. I only have my two parents and my brother so she met them very easily one weekend and it went great. Due to the large number of her family, we walked that one out in great detail. I told her meeting 19 people in one day was way too much for me so I asked if meeting her mother and father plus the 2 other moms would be okay to start with then maybe next time I could meet a few of her siblings. She said sure and we arranged it at the weekend just passed.

We met up and drove out to where she said her parents all lived in a huge kind of plot of land. She told me explicitly the kids were probably at one house whilst the parents were in one. All seemed fine. She led me into one of the houses and it was weirdly empty. She kept telling me to follow her and she led me to the backyard where all 19 of her family were standing. I was confused and thought maybe the parents had accidentally told the kids and then, I would have been overwhelmed but okay with the misunderstanding. Jenny told me that no, she’d told everyone to be there and admitted she lied to me so I’d meet everyone.

I was furious. I said to her I wasn’t comfortable with being thrown into the deep end of meeting so many people and I was so angry that I walked away, got in my car and drove away.

Jenny’s been blowing up my phone ever since saying I’m overreacting and not being accepting of her family. Somehow the parents got my number too (I think Jenny gave it to them) and they’re doing the same. My brother says it’s way too much to be meeting all these people and I’m confused about if I’m an AH or not.

ETA: I feel like I need to clarify. I am in a country that isn’t the

AMC goes up , up and up, thanks to each of you for your support in our cause - your making a difference to many peoples life's, including your own today - history is in the making now

My daughter has two boyfriends and she wants to marry both of them. Obviously, according to state laws, that would be illegal. So, she wants to marry one in an unofficial ceremony, and then marry the other one in an official ceremony the next day.

My daughter asked me to walk her down the aisle at both events. At first, I said I'm not going. To me, it's a mockery of marriage. I thought about it and I told my daughter that I'd walk her down the aisle at one event and that the man she was marrying on that day would be my son-in-law.

She chose the unofficial ceremony, but then the man she was supposed to marry officially eventually got mad because we weren't treating him like a son-in-law.

Now my daughter is pestering me to walk her down both aisles, but I refused.

I totally get and respect what you're doing: visibility is tough around twilight and you want to make sure that vehicles see you and your pup so you can use the crosswalk safely.

But what you're doing is dangerous. Because you beamed a bright light in my face (in a way that other headlights typically aren't), I had to finish my drive through Capitol Hill with spot blindness right in the center of my vision. That endangers other pedestrians and cyclists because now I have a harder time seeing them. I also had to recognize in the split-second that I had a bright light in my face that it wasn't another vehicle going down the wrong lane so as to not take an evasive action.

Might I recommend a reflective jacket/vest for you and your cute dog as a better way to keep yourselves safe, as well as everyone else walking around Cap Hill at twilight?

Thanks, mate; enjoy your evening.