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Input: Sorry, this is on mobile.

Let me preface this a little bit. Me and my brother hardly ever hang out. He lives in another state, and we don’t really talk much online, but whenever we get together to hang out we always have a great time.

He came home for the holidays this week. On Tuesday, me, my brother, my mom, and my dad scheduled some stuff to do today, Wednesday. We did have any dinner plans and we’re just planning on going somewhere on a whim.

While we are still out and about, I get a call from one of my closest friends. Apparently they wanted to do literally the exact same thing this coming weekend. One thing that was different was they had a restaurant in mind they wanted to try (which just so happens to be the kind of restaurant my brother has been raving about). My brother overheard us talking about this restaurant and thinks it’s a good idea for us to go after we get finished with what ever it was we were doing. He told our parent and was really excited about it, much to my friends protest.

I wasn’t sure what to do at this point. The way I saw it, I had two options:

1- I would not say anything, piss off my friends for doing something without them, and end up feeling like shit because my friends are mad at me.

Or 

2- Tell my family that we can’t go because my friends wanted to go later, thus ensuring we would probably never go there as a family. This would either do nothing at all because of how excited my brother was, making my friends mad, or it would it would work and I’d feel like shit for ruin my brothers day.

There didn’t seem like much I could do, so told my family about my friends plan and we went to eat there anyway. My brother decided it would be funny to taunt my friends with pictures  of the food there. I told him not to, that doing something like that would start something that I’d have to clean up, but it was too late.

I got a bunch of angry texts after that, with one of my friends saying I “spoiled” the trip (even though she already told everyone where we were going). I tried to tell them there wasn’t anything I could do without sounding like a ridiculous asshole, but they didn’t care.

I feel like an asshole, but I don’t know if that just me over thinking things, I’d really like some perspective on this. Thanks.



going to a restaurant my friends wanted to go to a few days before we we all supposed to go