Welcome to R-slash, am I the butthole where OP intentionally puts his little sister into a car wreck?

Am I the butthole for purposefully not intervening and letting my little sister cause a minor accident

with my car and making her partially cover damages to teach her a lesson about distracted driving?

I'm a 25 year old man. My little sister, Christy, is 18 and she recently got her driver's license.

She obviously thinks that she's an incredible driver and can handle a car no matter what.

After only four months of driving, she's already become one of those girls who puts their phone

between their thighs to look at messages and access it quickly while driving.

It drives us all insane to be honest and I and the other family members have talked to her

about it multiple times. It goes in one ear and out the other. Yesterday, she did it again while

driving my car and when we were getting groceries. She had been distracted for almost the whole drive

and even continued to look at her phone when I told her to cut it out. When she was about

to roll into a parking spot, she must have got a message and she looked down at her phone.

I noticed that she was about to ram into a lamp post and when I was sure that she wouldn't

cause damage to other vehicles, her decided she just let her run into it instead of intervening.

It was a huge shock to her and she just sat there completely still for like 15 seconds processing

what just happened. It wasn't until I said, well you learned to leave that f-ing phone alone now

that she spoke again. The first thing she said to me was why didn't you tell me in an absolutely

baffle tone and I told her straight up that I didn't tell her so she'd learn a lesson. She was

absolutely livid and tried to push all the blame onto me for not intervening but I told her that

it would have been the same outcome had I not been there and that ultimately she as the driver

is responsible for not only her but also all her passenger safety. Christy was absolutely

gobsmacked that she effed around and found out. Even more so when I told her that she would have

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