My 22F boyfriend 22M recently found AirPods while he as walking outside. He was very excited about it, send me a photo, and a while later send me a text saying ”they work really well!”. I wasn’t amused to say the least. Later, I told him he should try to give them back, or at least take them to a local police station. He said no, I’m not gonna do that. He needed new earphones anyways, so I guess that makes this even more exciting for him. I told him that that isn’t a morally good choice and opinion to have, and the he way handled this situation has kind of changed my opinion of who he is, and what his core values are. I gave him examples like ”what if my airpods were stolen?” And his response was something like ”I’m not gonna change my mind about this, I don’t care if it is a bad thing to do or that I am a bad person.” So AITA for telling him he’s a bad person and I see him way differently because of this?
NTA. Break up with this guy. You are too good for him!
I thought that missing Airpods could be tracked. If that is the case, he could well end up chatting to representatives of the legal system, explaining how he wasn’t really stealing them.
NTA. He’s shown you what kind of person he is.
i’d be more concerned with his willingness to put someone else’s earwax directly into his ears without a second thought
as for him finding them on the ground- yeah he definitely should’ve tried to return them (depending on where he found them) to the closest service desk or shop etc. i don’t think anyone would go to the police for lost airpods, but if it were around a place of business and he made no effort to find their owner then yeah he’s def the AH. not to mention those things have location tracking so whoever lost them could potentially have his location now as well
NTA.
Also eeww… why would you want to put someone else’s ear buds inside your own ears? You can potentially get ear infections passed around like that.
NTA
It’s also so gross an unhygienic to put earpods into his ears when he has no idea where they’ve been
NTA no – he is morally bad
Sounds odd, wouldn’t the owner be able to track them ?
NTA. I cannot wait until the owner tracks their earwax to your boyfriend’s earwax. Ewww.
NTA not to mention it’s nasty to put a stranger’s airports in
NTA
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
He just told you that he’s going to operate in his own interests whether it is the right and moral thing to do or not, and he doesn’t care as long as he gets what he wants.
You’re going to assume that that doesn’t apply to his interactions with you, and then down the road you’ll be asking why he treats you the way he does – and the answer will be:
Because you told him he could get away with it and you wouldn’t walk away.
NTA
It sounds to me like the two of you are morally incompatible.
Hopefully someone is tracking them.
NTA and he’s probably in for a rude awakening. I borrowed my friend’s AirPods last week and they were getting emails and alerts on findmyphone about the location of it and that I had hooked it up to a new phone… The owner of those AirPods absolutely can see where they are and who is using them. if the owner is anything like me, someone who is poor and cares about their stuff, they will probably come looking for them.
Don’t airpods have the ability to track them? Someone could have already reported it and are following him. NTA. He should really just turn them in.