Her Brother Called Her Selfish For Only Buying Ice Cream For Her Son And Making His Daughter Cry Over It
Have you ever had a parent, whether you knew them or not, blame you for their child’s temper tantrum?
One woman was confused after her brother and sister-in-law scolded her because she got her son an ice cream cone at the grocery store before a family gathering and didn’t grab two extras for her nieces.
She’s 25 and has a four-year-old son with her husband. She lives near her parents and her older brother, who has two young daughters with his wife.
Recently, her parents hosted a family gathering, and her and her brother’s families were invited. She and her family got to her parents’ house before her brother and his family. She was helping her mom prepare some food when she suddenly got a craving for cherries.
She’s pregnant with her second child, and the craving came fast, so she used it as an excuse to go to the grocery store and get cherries and other items they needed for the gathering, like soda and ice.
Her son went to the store with her and, while they were there, asked her for an ice cream cone. She decided to get him one along with everything else they needed.
“He can’t eat in the car, so once we got to my parents’ house again, he unwrapped his cone and started eating,” she recalled.
“Once we got inside, I found out that my brother and his family were already there too. I didn’t know [before] because I didn’t see their car. My sister-in-law greeted us, and their youngest daughter said she wanted ice cream, too.”
Her sister-in-law told her young niece to ask her for some ice cream since her son was the one who had it.
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When she told her niece she didn’t buy more ice cream, her niece began to cry. Her brother and sister-in-law tried telling her niece they could get her ice cream later, but it was too late, and she broke into a full-blown temper tantrum.
“One thing led to another, and they started blaming me because I ‘should’ve predicted this was going to happen’ and bought ice cream for all the kids,” she added.
“They were not there when I left, and I didn’t even see their car parked outside, so I couldn’t have known they were already there.”
“My brother said that I still knew they were coming, so I could’ve bought the extra ice cream and given it to my nieces when they got here.”
She apologized to her brother and sister-in-law, explaining that she hadn’t thought about that while at the store and didn’t mean to upset their daughter.
Still, her brother and his wife treated her like she was an “evil witch” and made her feel guilty by calling her selfish.
Not long after the altercation, her brother’s family left the gathering. Her parents and husband agreed that they had overreacted, but she still can’t help but feel bad.
Should she feel bad for not getting all the kids ice cream, or did she not do anything wrong?
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