‘I saw her in disbelief’: ‘Karen’ guest has seizure at Christmas gathering after seeing tampon in host’s bathroom
Christmas is an absolutely magical and wonderful occasion when the whole family gathers around the festive table and hears various jokes, joyful shouts and congratulations. It’s a night where everyone is friendly with each other. There is absolutely no room for fights or disagreements, except when you go to the homeowner’s bathroom and find a box of tampons in plain sight.
“Wait, what was that?” you might ask, and you’d be absolutely 100 percent right. Even, because people came up with proverbs. But unfortunately what they came up with doesn’t seem to apply to everyone…
this recent story Appeared in AITA Reddit community, narrated by user u/purplegreencarrot, has garnered over 16.3K upvotes and about 3.1K different comments to date. Yes, the author of the original post had to deal with this kind of “guestzilla” just before Christmas.
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The author of this post, who has been dating her boyfriend for three years, decided to arrange a small Christmas family gathering this year.
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So, the original poster has been living with her boyfriend, Ian, for three years. The night before Christmas, the partners decided to host a small family holiday dinner and invited Ian’s younger brother, ‘Jake’. He then asked if he could bring his new girlfriend, whom he’d been dating for about three months. rice field.
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Boyfriend’s brother also invited his new partner, she brought her 8-year-old son
The girlfriend’s name is Naveah, and to the OP and her partner she seemed a little timid yet adorable. I was. But why shouldn’t the boy also attend the celebratory gathering with potential future relatives?
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All was well until the moment Naveah went to the bathroom, literally screaming hysterically and popping out of there with the box of tampons the OP normally used. No one could understand anything until it could be explained to them.
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Presumably when SIL went to the bathroom, she rushed out of there and screeched into the author’s tampon box
Ultimately, Naveah was shocked by the fact that the host had left a tampon in plain sight in the bathroom. The woman did not respond to the OP’s very logical objection that she just called it all “disgusting” and the OP himself was “shameless”.
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The hostess was indignant and pointedly replied that if the guests were not satisfied, they could leave and go home.
At this point, the author’s patience had already burst, and she stated that if Naveah didn’t like something, she could leave the tampon-less place and go home. He did, and never returned for dinner again, but called his brother instead. , called the OP a jerk during the course of the conversation.
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What angered the original poster even more was that Ian agreed with his brother, stating that the OP was rude and inappropriate, while she previously said her partner was definitely on her side. Another family drama was about to erupt, but the author wisely decided it wasn’t worth the fight and drove to her office to cool off.
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There was absolutely no reason for such drama, experts are sure
“In any case, Navea’s behavior in this situation looks completely unacceptable,” says Irina Matveeva. Psychologist and Certified NLP Specialistwho asked bored panda Comment on this story. “If she really cares about her son’s moral character (which in itself is pretty strange, since there is no 19th-century Victorian society and tampons are found in almost every store), then still, if a mother I wanted to keep her from being seen, but she couldn’t concentrate on this and couldn’t throw a tantrum.
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“Perhaps in the household Navea grew up in, personal hygiene was considered a disgrace, but in any case she has absolutely no right to tell her hosts what to do and insult them. Perhaps the author of this story answered her a little sharply, but this can be explained by her surprise at the scandal for such ridiculous and trivial reasons.
Commenters gave the author a big thumbs up, claiming her guests acted like drama queens
By the way, the people in the comments also heavily supported the original poster, with a stranger coming to her house and insulting her even though she had only dated the guy for 3 months and is not part of the family. “If she was really concerned about her child seeing the tampon, she wouldn’t have waved the tampon in the air and screamed,” one commentator said.
OP’s SIL looks like a drama queen according to some commenters. In the end, she saw no sex toys, no condoms, no tampons in use. “For me this is no different than being surprised to see a box of toilet paper in the bathroom,” wrote another person in the comments. In any case, it was the guest who showed great disrespect to the host in this situation, as this is the OP’s house and her own bathroom.
If you’ve already made up your mind about who’s right and who’s wrong in this particular case, feel free to voice it out in the comments below this post. If you’ve ever had a bad experience, it’s unlikely that a good comment will hurt anyone.