My family was given ham by a friend of dad and we just kept eating. Unknown to us, my brother also bought his own kind of ham. ‘Organic’ and ‘pasture raised’ ham.
My brother had our home cook (parents hired a home cook as they were getting old) cook his ham. When I went to the table for breakfast, I saw an entire plate of ham. It looked slightly different in color but I thought some parts of the pig they use for ham were different color. Im no expert in ham. It was like 4-6 servings of ham and I only got one serving.
Then I heard my brother call out my name LOUD and he seemed ANGRY. He told me that ham was his and I have to owe him a new package. I told him I did not know it was his because the family has been getting LOTS of HAM by dad’s friend. He still told me I have to pay for the entire package because apparently, DAD got ham too and DAD GOT A LOT. I asked why do I have to pay for the entire thing and my brother said "BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST TO GET SO THAT STARTS A CHAIN OF PEOPLE GETTING." TBH The ham tasted great and I would love to buy again. I found out the package of Special ham costs $15 for six servings (not american but will use dollars). Expensive for 2 lbs but not as expensive as I thought it would.
Fine. I will owe him Ham. But I am not going to owe an entire package. I only ate ONE PORTION out of I guess 4-6 and I only owe him That. He gets a quarter and I get 3/4 of the NEW PACKAGE. I told that to him and he goes "WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY? It’s MY Ham that you ate and YOU SHOULD OWE ME." I told him "WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME PAY SO MUCH FOR ONE PORTION? I OWE YOU A PORTION OF THAT SPECIAL HAM AND THAT’s IT. I WILL BUY SPECIAL HAM AND GIVE YOU 1/4 OF IT. THE OTHER 3/4 IS MINE". He then tells me "I am tired of you acting you are the victim. If I accidentally break something of yours I will not pay you."
I am not escaping responsibility. I am only owing what I took. I did not open the ham from the package. It was already cooked when I got to the table.
NTA This post is hilarious
“I’m no expert in ham” 💀💀💀
NTA – if he wanted his own special ham to himself, he shouldn’t have left it out where everyone can get it. Eating one portion is not a good reason to replace the entire package. That is a crazy reaction to even $15 worth of ham let alone a quarter of that.
Your brother sounds like an egotistical asshole from this story. You told him how you were willing to recompense him, he can take it or he can leave it and then you get another pack of ham for yourself. But tou dont owe him shit. Plus it sounds like yall have like soooo much ham??? Never seen ham be this prevalent before lol
how old is he? this is extremely childish behavior.
You also owe me $15 for making me read this.
Do you by any chance accept payment in the form of ham slices
I suppose but then I don’t know if it should be a 1/4 pack, 3/4 pack, whole pack? And then I have to hire a home cook to prepare it.
I’m gonna go with an ESH. Your brother for the ridiculous demand and you for whining about a 2lb package of ham. Jesus dude, if you are in a family that can afford a home cook, I’m going to go out on a limb and say you could afford to just buy the package. Like is that the hill you want to die on? I feel like my peace would be worth more than the $15 (or whatever amount of whatever currency you’re dealing with) so I would just tell my brother to take the money and go piss up a rope.
This post is giving me a headache.
It did – then I hit that semantic satiation point where the word ‘Ham’ started to become a nonsense noise in my head. Then this whole thing became hilarious. Highly recommend pushing through the pain.
ESH. You are all incredibly petty. You can hire a cook yet you’re fighting over how many servings of ham you each eat? Get real.
This sounds like rich people problems. Did he even pay for the ham to begin with, or just have the cook make him ham?
How is it possible that your parents are too old and feeble to cook for themselves, yet their kids are adolescents? Good Lord.