so my brother plays soccer every morning in school with his friends, and i (f) know all of them. there was a person i didn’t recognize playing with them so i just thought "oh maybe it’s one of his friends’ friend" and i just shrugged it off. they were two teams and that guy and my brother were on opposite teams. my brother had scored a goal and so the guy grabbed his glasses and threw them across the pitch. i immediately went to the guy, grabbed his glasses, and threw them the exact same distance he had thrown my brother’s glasses. my brother grabbed both his and that guy’s glasses, gave him his glasses and called me an asshole. AITA?
depends on how old each of you are
Why? Still rude either way
Well if OP is 6 and doesn’t fully understand how to regulate emotions yet, I’m going to be more lenient than if they’re 16-18 and acting like an angry child.
YTA. Congratulations on acting like a child. And I say this even if you are under 18 because if you’re old enough to be on the internet you’re old enough to know better. You also don’t interfere in a game if you’re not playing in it unless someone is going to actually get hurt.
YTA in a huge way, totally immature and kudos to your brother for calling you out!!
I mean it sounds like your brother was okay with it but how are you supposed to know that? You saw what you understandably assumed was your little brother get bullied for scoring against this kid you don’t know and retaliated. You didn’t assault the kid. You did the same exact thing he did to your little brother out of a protective instinct. You should’ve used your words but it seems like you’re a kid too?
I’m saying ESH. How old are all of you? And did you talk to your brother after? Is this a thing that they do in his friend group? Did you explain you thought the guy was being an AH?
he didn’t wanna talk to me after the incident. it’s not something they usually do, no, which is why i stepped in. i tried to, but kept telling me to shut up
YTA for the fact that it seems like the brother is old enough to handle his own battles.
The dude threw his glasses (who knows why), but if brother had an issue, then he is old enough to deal with it by himself and not need his sibling to be his knight in shining armor.
He also didn’t seem to have an issue with it at all. So you were not helping him
Of course YTA
If you had really wanted to help your brother you would have gone and helped him find his glasses then tell the other kid to stop his nonsense.
But no, you just decided to act like some sort of school kid avenging angel and manage to do nothing helpful.
Maybe time to grow up a bit
YTA. Why couldn’t you let your brother and his friends, who know this guy, handle it? Why didn’t you simply call out the behaviour or check in with your brother on how you can support him?
You stick up for your brother right or wrong!!! My dad would have popped me in my nose if I called my brother asshole for sticking up for me. Was he calling you an AHole, sarcastically that would be funny. I’d shrug it off.
YTA
OP, you should really go to therapy. You’ve got bottled anger which you let off with this action. Seek professional help, because this is not good for you or everyone else around you.