We had a Friendsgiving during Thanksgiving week (it wasn’t actually on Thanksgiving but it was during that week) and we all brought food and drinks like a potluck and it was great! But so a while after eating like we ate at 4ish and around like 10ish we started drinking heavily and people who hadn’t drank before then started drinking.
So I like to experiment with mixed drinks like making cocktails, so I was making drinks for a few people and myself. I was making lemon drops for us all which is vodka, lemonade, a simple syrup, grenadine, and a sugar rim. One of these friends (I’ll call him Joey that’s not his real name) is kind of like cocky and self-obsessed so everyone thinks it’s funny to mess with him and say crazy things to inflate his ego. He gets on our nerves but he’s fun to drink with so we keep him around.
So this guy Joey is one of the people I’m making a lemon drop for and I have an idea to make everyone else a real one and make his a mocktail so I put just lemonade, simple syrup, and the sugar rim on his. I delivered the drinks and we all drank and enjoyed them.
So cue later, Joey is “drunk” off the one lemon drop he had that I make him that remember it wasn’t real. I told a few people what I did so watching him be “drunk” was really funny.
Earlier this week (like Sunday I’m pretty sure) we got in a fight because he was being self-centered and I was bashing him for being attention seeking and so at some point I said “like how when you were pretending to be drunk at Friendsgiving and started dancing on the table”
And of course he was like “wait what?” So I ended up explaining to him what I did and he yelled at me calling me immature and stupid and stuff and he left seething. Of my friends who know about what I did, none of them think I’m in the wrong, they all think it was funny to see Joey be fake drunk and attention seeking. But Joey is really mad and keeps sending me paragraphs saying I need to apologize or I’ll need to give him back the birthday presents he gave me a couple months back.
So really I’m mostly wondering just if I went too far and if I should apologize. AITA?
Are you all 13? A guy getting drunk off of a single, real lemon drop wouldn’t happen, why would Joey be pretending to be drunk from that? Does he think that’s what happens with one mixed drink? And he threatened to take back the birthday presents he gave you? This is an adult? This sounds like schoolchildren who snuck alcohol from their parents’ liquor shelf. ESH.
YTA for pranking.
YTA. If you don’t like this guy don’t hang out with him. Don’t just keep him around because bullying him is fun. If the only value you see in the “friendship” is making him look foolish, then do not continue the friendship. It is horrible for him and it is making you a bully and that is someone I suspect you don’t want to be.
ESH. I feel so tired just reading it.
ESH. You’re all immature.
YTA.
Pranks aren’t funny if every0one isn’t laughing. Theyre just bullying.
If you don’t like the dude, then don’t hang out with him. choosing to keep him around just because he gives you someone to treat badly isn’t cool,
YTA. The fix is simple: if you don’t like the guy, be grown ups and don’t hang out with him rather than prank him an make fun of him. Of course he’s pissed – you embarrassed him and outed him to everyone. You think it’s funny, but just because it didn’t happen to you.
It’s the equivalent of you wearing a hair piece because you are self-conscious about loosing hair and someone rips it off your head in front of others because they think you’re an insufferable prankster. I bet that wouldn’t be funny.
YTA. And you are your friends sound like really immature alcoholics and jerks.
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And you are all immature. Whatever his personality is, it doesn’t matter, you make a joke at his expense, and you are essentially a bully. There are no excuses for being a bully.
I feel like I just read about something that happened with 16 year olds trying to act like adults
ESH. If you don’t like him, don’t hang out with him, but also he can’t demand gifts back because he’s angry. That’s not how gifts work.
YTA: for making lemon drops poorly.
It is vodka and fresh squeezed lemon. You can sugar the rim or the lemon garnish but thats it. No lemonade and DEFINITELY not grenadine. This abomination you made was the main problem with your story.
‘We keep him around’
You sound like a bundle of laughs, are you sure that’s not what the rest are saying about you? YTA
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Prankers enjoy pranks because you aren’t on the receiving end of the prank.
If you don’t like him, don’t hang with him. But going out of your way to embarrass him isn’t cool.
And don’t use the excuse that he is rude. If he is so rude, then you shouldn’t be friends with him.