Am I The Bad Apple For Not Wanting to Give my Dog a Piece of Food?
This story happened a little under a year ago, but it still haunts me to a degree and the fallout lasted for a week (I swear I’m not being dramatic)
I was eating breakfast before school and my mom was nearby putting on makeup. Now, my family has two dogs, one of which is a papillon. For those who don’t know, papillons can be very manipulative when begging for food, ours in particular likes to prod at your arm or even pull your hand close to her, sometimes a little whine too. Now this is very adorable, obviously. But in the past, when I’ve eaten this particular breakfast, when giving her a bite, she spits it out. This has happened multiple times. As a little joke, I just went “no baby, you’re going to just spit it out.” and then continued to eat. My mom went “just give her a bite“ I continued to explain that she would just spit it out like she does every single time. My mom kept pushing, at this point, I had maybe two or three bites left, so just to get my mom to stop, I pinched one end of the food as a small bite and bit the rest off before quickly tossing the food to my dog. (What do you know? She spit it out)
My mom wildly misinterpreted the situation as my shoving the whole thing in my mouth and called me an asshole. This was the first time my mom ever called me anything more extreme than a “brat” or “crybaby“ when I was younger and it hit really deep. We ended up not talking to each other for three days. When my mom finally brought it back up she basically said “what, you want me to apologize? You won’t think I mean it anyway“
This has been resolved a while ago but I still think about it and thinking about it makes me cry. So, am I the bad apple?