My (18F) brother (15M) refuses to clean up after himself. For context we share a full bathroom (i.e. toilet, shower, bath, sink all in the one room) and our bedrooms are each about a metre away from the bathroom.
Tonight, I walked into the bathroom and attempted to shut the door when my brother dashed out of his bedroom and said he needed to grab his water bottle (which was in the bathroom for reasons I am not privy to), so I let him into the bathroom to grab the bottle. When he did grab it he knocked down one of those portable travel mirrors with batteries in it (4 AA), and all of the batteries and a piece of the mirror went flying down to the floor. This within itself is fine, I understand that people make mistakes and I didn’t mind, he also apologised. But then he started walking back to his bedroom so I said, “Are you going to pick this up?”, to which he replied something along the lines of, “You’re closer to it, so it’s your job to clean it up?.” And I was just standing there dumbfounded cause WTF sort of excuse is that?? Anyways, I immediately told him off and said that it doesn’t matter that I am now closer because he was the one that made the mess not me.
He then went into his bedroom and shut the door, so I followed and opened it and basically repeated himself and then he said some BS about how it’s equivalent to when I use a plate/cup/bowl etc. and place it on the sink and don’t clean it up and then one of our parents does. (It’s important to note that the dishes are a shared household duty of which I do a lot, and he does exactly 0% of the time). Anyways, I told him that that is not even remotely equivalent because there is a mutual understanding that the dishes are a shared duty, to which he removed me from the room and shut and locked his door.
And I was then telling him that this makes no sense through the door and he is obviously being a bad person and disrespectful to me because I am not his slave.
So, am I the asshole?
P.S. earlier today I was bringing in groceries and I asked him to open the front door for me (my hands were full as I was carrying 4 bags) and he did and then just walked off so I yelled for him to shut the door cause the AC was on and he got mad because once again I was closer.