By Anxious_Occasion_554 • Score: 14 • April 4, 2025 5:38 PM
AITAH for feeding my neighbor’s “emotional support” peacock rotisserie chicken?
Yes, you read that right.
So I (29M) live in a suburb where everyone mostly keeps to themselves—until a new neighbor (let’s call her Linda, 50s?) moved in with her emotional support peacock. His name is Sebastian. He wears a sparkly vest, has his own stroller, and screams like a demon every morning at 6 a.m. Sharp. Like clockwork. It’s like living next to a dying saxophone that’s mad at the world.
Anyway, Linda swears Sebastian is a certified emotional support animal (not sure how true that is), and she walks him around the block like a dog. He poops everywhere, and she doesn’t clean it up because “it’s natural fertilizer.” It’s not.
So a few days ago, I was eating outside, enjoying a Costco rotisserie chicken, when Sebastian just stares me down. Like intense, Jurassic Park-level eye contact. He inches closer. I don’t know if he’s curious or threatening me. So I tear off a piece of chicken and toss it to him.
He eats it.
I laugh and toss him another. Now we’re having lunch together. Bonding. He’s living his best carnivorous life.
Linda comes out, sees this, and screams. She calls me a monster, says I’ve traumatized Sebastian, and that “cannibalism is not a joke.” (I don’t even think peacocks are vegetarians?) She storms off and later leaves a passive-aggressive note on my door with a link to “avian grief counseling.”
Now other neighbors are split—half think it’s hilarious, half say I crossed a line. Sebastian hasn’t screamed since, though, so maybe I cured him?
AITAH?
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