She’s Getting Accused of Being A Brat After Letting $70 Worth Of Groceries That Her Parents Had Delivered Go To Waste Because She Didn’t Want To Walk Across Campus To Pick Them Up When She Was Sick
This young woman is a freshman in college, and just yesterday, she started feeling extremely sick. She’s suffering from a stuffy nose, a sore throat, muscle pain and is exhausted all the time.
“This is to the point that even walking makes me feel dizzy and like I’m going to faint, so I’ve been staying in my room,” she said.
She mentioned her illness to her parents, too, and they wound up insisting on sending her a ton of food and Gatorade to help her get better.
While she appreciated the offer, though, she declined the offer for a couple of key reasons.
First of all, she is already feeling nauseous right now. So, food is not going to make that any better.
Secondly, her campus is massive, and grocery store delivery, as well as food delivery apps like DoorDash, always arrive at the other end of campus. Then, the delivery drivers cannot find her room, and she simply doesn’t want to deal with that right now.
“As I mentioned, even walking hurts, so I’m not in any state to make that trek,” she explained.
She tried to explain this very clearly to her parents, too, and they said okay. Yet, just 20 minutes later, her parents called, claimed to have ordered food, and told her that it would be arriving in a half hour. They also told her that she needed to go pick it up.
“This frustrated me because they always do this and ignore my boundaries and then blame me,” she revealed.
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For instance, her parents always ask her if she wants pizza or ice cream. And even if she says no, they will buy her the food anyway and proceed to yell at her when she doesn’t eat it!
That’s why she decided to finally stick to her boundaries and tell her parents no; she would not be picking up the groceries.
At that point, her parents asked if she could just get a friend to run the errand for her. While she could’ve done that, though, she refused. She just wanted her parents to learn the meaning of the word “no.”
This caused her parents to become furious, too, and they began screaming at her– accusing her of acting like a brat by allowing $70 worth of food to just go to waste.
“But I think it’s on them for ordering food when I said in no uncertain terms, to begin with, that I didn’t want it,” she vented.
Still, with her parents so angry at her, she’s now wondering whether refusing to pick up the groceries her parents sent really did make her a brat or not.
Would you also get annoyed if your parents disrespected your boundaries while you were already sick? Do you think she did the right thing by holding her ground? Or should she have just picked up the food anyway?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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