Hi everyone. This actually happened last night. I was at my brother's place for an NFL Draft party. I haven't seen my brother in a couple weeks, and my brother and I live a couple hours from each other because I moved away so I haven't seen a lot of his friends in years. I also have not met most of my brother's girlfriend's family and friends because she comes from a town a couple hours from where they currently live in the opposite direction from where I live. My brother and his gf have been together 2 years and are getting engaged next month.

At the party I was talking with a group of people and one guy, the husband of one of my brother's girlfriend's friends asked me what I do for a living, and I said I'm an attorney. He then asked me what kind of law I practice, and I could already see where this was going. He then started into a "so I'm having a problem with one of my neighbors..."" As he was launching into his story I reached in my pocket and gave him my card and told him to call me in the morning to discuss the issue. He got upset and said why can't I just answer a couple of quick questions for him since we were both there. I said I was there to see my brother and watch the draft and didn't want to discuss business right now.

As other attorneys will tell you at social gatherings this is a common thing. Once people find out you're an attorney they'll try to corner you with a bunch of questions and you're basically back on the clock. Years ago, I decided to do the business card thing instead of answering questions so I could actually enjoy social gatherings. Besides, these things almost never turn into actual business, people just want free legal advice. I've never had any complaints about it before.

The guy got upset, said something under his breathe, and stormed off. The other people standing there all made a face as he stormed off and we went right back into our conversation. That was it, or so I thought. The rest of the night was fine, and it was never brought up again. We enjoyed the draft, and I enjoyed seeing my brother's knucklehead friends these years later.

I got a text from my brother this morning, and he said I want to make this clear, I completely understand why you did what you did. He has seen it happen a bunch of times at events and heard me complain about it afterwards. However, his girlfriend is upset that I "blew her friend's husband off" and wants me to reach out to him apologize and answer his questions. My brother said he's on my side and said he told her such, but she made him send the text to me anyway. I believe my brother being on my side and understand he's trying to keep the peace in his relationship.

I said I'm not texting and apologizing or calling the guy but he has my card and is welcome to call me. I feel I did nothing wrong, just because of my job doesn't mean I'm on the clock 24/7. My brother said yea, I knew you'd say that but now I can at least tell my gf I tried and that was it with him.

Again, I thought this was the end, but it's not. His girlfriend texted my mom and told her what happened. Now my mom is texting me and saying I know it's annoying what this guy did, but can you call this guy so that your relationship with brother's girlfriend isn't negatively affected because she's obviously upset with you. My brother is getting engaged to her next month and she's going to be family and there's no need to have a rift when she's about to be family. I said it's too late the fact that she cried to my mom already created a rift on my end about her now.

Again, I declined, and my mom said she understands, but just doesn't want negative feelings with brother's gf over this. I said no, he can call me and I'll answer any questions he has.

So, Reddit, AITAH for how I handled this?