Father DEMANDS that I DROP OUT of COLLEGE... claims I'M THE REASON his SON FAILED
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 17 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My roommate's entitled father tries to blame me for his son failing out of university, |
| 0:05.1 | claiming that because his son failed, I deserve to fail as well, as he tried to blame his son's |
| 0:09.8 | failure on me, and I've never been more blown away by someone else's entitlement in my life. |
| 0:15.1 | Here's what happened. So my freshman year, I was roommates with a guy who had fairly well-off |
| 0:19.7 | parents. Let's call him John. John is not his real name. John was a child actor, and although he |
| 0:25.0 | isn't one you would recognize immediately, he's played some side characters on big sitcoms, |
| 0:29.5 | and did some voice acting on some pretty popular kid shows. His parents hold him to a very |
| 0:33.9 | high expectation, and were very strict with him and his acting. So when he got into our university, |
| 0:39.3 | which is considered a top 10 university globally, his parents held him to that same standard, |
| 0:44.6 | which for a now liberated young adult with almost no maturity, he did the exact opposite of |
| 0:49.8 | everything he should have done. He slept all day, partied all night, never studied, didn't go |
| 0:54.8 | to class, etc. Yet when his parents would call him to check up on him, I would always be mentioned |
| 1:00.0 | in the conversations. They needed to make sure that I was a good influence on their son, |
| 1:04.5 | or so they would tell him. They would consistently ask if I was partying often, if illegal substances |
| 1:09.7 | were involved, if I was bringing girls over late into the night, pretty much everything he was doing. |
| 1:14.8 | They basically wanted to ensure that I wasn't the one doing it just to keep their son safe. |
| 1:19.5 | This goes on for months. Whenever his parents would call him during his midday nap, |
| 1:23.9 | and I'd be in between classes, I'd always hear him defending me to his parents, |
| 1:28.2 | and he'd go beat red whenever I'd walk in, and hear what they were saying about me over the phone. |
| 1:33.5 | So I'd leave, and wait until his call ended, since I knew he already felt embarrassed enough. |
| 1:38.6 | I didn't really think of what they were saying either. I just thought it was ironic, |
| 1:42.3 | and told John afterwards that he didn't need to apologize, since they weren't his thoughts, |
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