📝 Aitah for making fun of my freind for failing his exam

By emilialittle • Score: 0 • April 15, 2025 1:38 AM


Okay there is a lot of context here so let me paint you a picture:

Me, (17 f) and my friend (17 f), let’s call her Stacy got a text from our friend (17 f), let’s call her Ella, wondering if we wanted to go on a ride with her, the guy she’s dating/ a close friend of ours (18 m), let’s call him Jason and his friend/ the guy Stacy is talking to (18 m) let’s call him Aron.
We are all pretty much in the same friend group and I have gone out for a drive with all of them before but never all together as a group. At first I would say it was a little bit awkward, especially with Aaron given he hasn’t spent as much time with us but eventually it loosed up a bit and we just started joking around. Okay for some additional context are we not English speakers, our language is pretty complex with a lot of inflections. I have a pretty hard time with this because I grew up in another country with a language that does not put so many inflections on words and tend to use it wrong. It is a bit of an insecurity of mine that I am trying to fix but it is hard since growing up I only used my mother language at home. So anyway I accidentally slip up and inflect a word wrong and get made fun of (which I’m honestly used to), so to defend myself I bring up the fact that I am the only one in the car with a Latin diploma(something I usually brag about when I’m wrong) and I was trying to add on that I could also speak three languages but Jason completely stops the car and starts yelling. You see me, Stacy and him are all studying linguistics, I had to take Latin over the summer because I switched schools, Stacy has yet to take her final but Jason failed his last year. So now we are sitting there as he is yelling at me for dissing him as I am trying to explain it wasn’t targeted towards anyone, it was just something I wanted to remind the car of, because I may suck at speaking this language but I got a 4,5 in Latin (I know huge flex). He however isn’t hearing any of it and simply kicks me out somewhere. He drives off but comes back after like a minute and when I get in the car again the vibes are just ice cold. I try to, again apologise and explain it wasn’t personal but he really isn’t hearing any of it. Stacy tries to lighten the mood by asking him if he is excited for her party on Friday but Jason tells her just to stop talking and that he’s driving us all home. Ella tried striking up conversations but they didn’t really go anywhere were extremely forced. The whole ride home Jason doesn’t say a word and I try to apologise one last time before he drops me and Stacy off at my house but he literally does not even look at me. I wanted to text Ella to see if he is really angry but she hasn’t been active, Stacy and Aaron both think Jason is overreacting but I just feel so bad. I honestly didn’t mean it as a negative thing towards him and was mostly talking to Aaron who had previously said that a person studying linguistics should know how to speak. The whole thing was just light hearted and funny and I was still laughing as I was kicked out of the car but Jason really took it to heart. I have never seen him like this and I cannot get rid of this incredible guilt I feel. Please tell me if I was the asshole or if Jason was being dramatic

Ps. This is my first time posting on here so I’m sorry if I did it wrong somehow

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