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Input: Sophomore year of college I moved in with 3 friends that I had known through high school.  Everyone contributed some furniture (I brought a set of couches) and one of my roommates brought a dining room table and chairs.

Over winter break I had a small get together.  The roommate in question wasn’t present but one of our mutual friends was visiting and broke one of the chair legs by accident.  We threw it out the next day figuring it was beyond repair and it was just a college table set, incorrectly thinking he had the same mindset as me that at the end of college I would just get rid of anything that got trashed during those years.

I let my roommate know the next day and he wasn’t happy about it but didn’t seem like it was the end of the world.  Our mutual friend that had broken the chair went on deployment to the Middle East a couple weeks later (Marines).  I then get an e-mail from my roommates dad explaining that the chair and tables are expensive family heirlooms and that I need to replace the chair.  The son won’t talk about it and says I need to speak with his dad regarding it.

I got weekly aggressive emails from the dad following up on my progress to find a replacement chair.  He didn’t contact the friend that broke the chair and I don’t deflect responsibility to him - he’s barely reachable in a war zone and doesn’t have much money.  After 6 months of searching on Craigslist and EBay I finally find a replacement chair that costs me $500 (a full table and chair set was $5,000+ and was difficult to find an individual chair).

Am I the asshole for holding a grudge because I was held responsible for a piece of furniture broken under my watch?

not wanting to pay for a broken chair