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06/03/2026

06/02/2026

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AITA for Not Giving Up My Prize to a Line-Skipping Stranger?

So I was in the supermarket this morning (Christmas Eve). They have some Christmas gift prizes at the moment based on what number customer you are that day. I was in the queue with my daughter and forgot an item, so asked my daughter to wait in the line while I went back to get it.

When I returned, the woman who had been standing behind me was now standing in front of my daughter. When I asked my daughter, she said the woman pushed passed her after I had left. I usually wouldn't care, but it just seemed pretty to push past a kid like that and skip the queue.

I decided to politely say that we were in the queue first and that I had just left the queue for a minute, but that my daughter was still in the queue holding our place. This went back and forth for a minute until I just let it go. No point arguing with a moron.

It came to her turn, she paid for her items and then started packing them. As she was packing I moved forward when music started playing and the cashier said I was the winner of the day. I couldn't believe it. They manager came down and said we had won a Nintendo Switch, a gift card for the store worth €250, and 10 games. I couldn't believe it.

This is where I was called an A-hole. The woman who skipped us started complaining that she was supposed to have won. That we "let" her go ahead, and that the prizes were actually hers. We explained what happened, but she called us liars and started crying. The manager said he couldn't do anything except check the cameras, but they didn't have audio. He said that because we were the actual 250th customer, we would get the prizes regardless.

So, were we the A-hole? Should we have given her the prizes? My wife said I'm not, and I agree. But my daughter felt kinda bad afterwards, because the woman cried.

*edit: So most people have said NTA. I'll happily take that. It was mainly the fact that she cried that gave me cause for concern.

In regards to the prizes and lessons.

I explained to my daughter why the woman cried. One of the replies gave a great suggestion and I went with that. She kind of understood, but I'm not sure if she got it fully. She understands that crying doesn't get you what you want and it isn't a tool to manipulate people. She also understands that when you do something bad, there are consequences. So I think it was a good lesson for her.

She wrapped the switch and games and gave them to her sister for Christmas. Her sister was so overjoyed that she wasn't much interested in what Santa brought 🤣. She's been playing it for about 2 hours now. She played Kirby for a short while and then started playing Zelda. She's really into Zelda, even though she can't do too much.

Thanks for all the replies and have a Merry Christmas everyone 😊

06/02/2026

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AITA for telling my sister to stop keeping track of gifts I give?

I (21) have two older sisters. Amy is 31, and Bree is 26.

I am a person who likes to gift people things. Mostly just randomly, like "oh I have an extra xyz, you want it?" If it's like a $15 item that I don't need, I don't even really think about it.

Recently, I bought some lip balms from a kinda expensive skincare company. We were moving at the same time and I'm a disaster so I promptly lost two of them. Bree was helping me unpack when I found one of the lost ones and I told her she could have it on a whim. No biggie.

Couple months later, Bree drove us to our parents house for my dad's birthday. I had brought bath bombs for both of my parents as a gift. The one I brought for my mom accidentally rolled out of the bag and got left in Bree's car. She realized later, offered to bring it to me, I told her not to worry about since I have more than I can give to Mom.

The next time Amy was at my house, she saw my box of bath bombs, grabbed one and said "hey I'm taking this, since you have Bree one". I was a little taken aback but didn't protest because I didn't really care.

I guess she was expecting a fight though, because she immediately starts saying that I don't give her anything and that I gave Bree more stuff and starts listing the above instances and a few others.

Now I'm annoyed, because it's just point blank not true. I give Amy things all the time. Just recently I was ordering myself a craft project off of Amazon and bought her one too because she mentioned it looked cool. I also buy gifts for her kids all the time, and Bree doesn't even have any yet.

I told her I didn't appreciate her keeping track of the gifts I was giving people, because if she's keeping track, we all have to keep track or else someone's going to get their feelings hurt (literally what happened). I would prefer if no one kept track under the understanding that as sisters, things will even out in the long run.

She kept protesting so then I got mad and started listing things back at her. Months ago, she gave Bree a very expensive makeup palette for no reason, did I say anything?

If we're being technical about it, Bree was unmarried and living with me for ten years longer than Amy was, you don't think she's bought me more Hot Cheetos and Sonic and other random crap over those years? I didn't get my license until I was 19, who do you think drove me around all that time?

Everyone's mad now... somehow because of me and my penchant for giving people things. Bree's annoyed that she's being dragged into this. My parents are saying I shouldn't have rubbed Amy's face in the things I buy for her. I feel like I'm in the right here. AITA?