I feel like I’m going insane. Please tell me I’m missing something here because I’m genuinely speechless.
My family lives a busy life, but mom still wants to have brunch together. So we make plans anyways. Since my grandmother would be stuck in the hospital till around 2:50ish. Me and my brother would head into the shop at around 2:30 and order food for everyone. That way, by the time the store starts closing up at 3:30 we would have the food and be out the door.
Fast forward to today. Me and my brother head into the store and ordered. Everything went without a hitch. EXCEPT, the server asked what drinks my mom and grandma would want. So I said, they would like TWO ICED TEAS (WHICH IS THREE DOLLARS EACH). Make sure you hold onto that detail.
3:00 rolls around and I get antsy. I know how frustrating it is to be stuck past closing. So I check with the server:
"Say, what time do you guys close"
-"Oh, we close at 3:00"
... crap.
So I give mom a call and I hurriedly pack their omelettes and their THREE DOLLAR TEAS and head home. We make it back and I throw a text letting them know that their food is waiting for them
Mom finally makes it back and we talk for a bit. I ask how long they're gonna stick around for today, and mom tells me that she wants to take grandma out for some fresh hot food. (Fair enough) We hug and say our goodbyes. A waste of 2 omelettes, but hey, that's life.
Skip to midnight, the whole family finally makes it home. Mom offers to cook some soup for my brother and I to make up for lost time.
"Sounds great, I'm gonna hit the showers"
I get cleaned up and I walk out of the bathroom to screaming and yelling. I find my mom berating my brother (who is frozen and nonverbal at this point) over the two teas we bought. So I step in and claimed the blame.
What ensued, was the longest argument I've ever had over 2 cups of tea. She said that I was being stupid and careless for wasting so much money on those drinks that she didn't even get to touch.
Apparently what I did was a sign that she failed as a mother to teach me proper money management and that I was horribly dense/inconsiderate for trying to defend my choice.
I argued that the 2 omelettes were 10x more expensive and she chose to let those go to waste. Which pissed her off more, because I was missing the point and that I was scapegoating financial responsibility.
So I pivoted. I apologized for wasting money on the teas, and explained that I was genuinely just trying to be considerate by getting their drink orders out of the way.
Anyways, she slammed the door in my face and now I'm sitting in my room, pissed off drinking soup thinking about where I went wrong.
TL;DR
I wasted $6 on tea and now I'm a horrible son.