Reddit users have weighed in on whether a person is in the wrong for abandoning their parents after a cruise trip, with a 45 minute delay leaving them stranded and in need of a flight
A Reddit user has asked if they were in the wrong when they abandoned their parents – who were late for a cruise ship departure.
Taking to the forum’s AmITheA**hole page, the unnamed user wondered whether it was right to leave their seniors behind after telling them they would be late for the departure. His parents had gifted him the cruise but were seemingly ignorant of departure times.
His post read: “I graduated from high school back in December. As a gift my parents got me a cruise. It was also for my 18th birthday. It was also a family vacation. We usually stay at all inclusive resorts but I have always wanted to go on a cruise. I told my parents it was different and that if we went on excursions we had to follow the schedule no matter what.”
The schedule was not followed by their parents and led to a disagreement between the seniors and recent graduate. “Well it was a week-long cruise and they would not head back to the ship when I said it was time to go,” the post continued. “They were busy shopping and bargaining with the locals. I finally said that I was heading back to the ship. My mom waved me off.
“The missed the departure. By a lot. Like 45 minutes. They got ahold of me through WhatsApp. They wanted to know why I didn’t get the boat to wait for them. I wanted to scream that they were not going to inconvenience 3,998 people because two could not understand what a schedule was.
“They ended up having to fly to the next port from there and it was expensive. They are pissed at me for leaving them behind. I don’t know what I was supposed to do. They literally told me that they knew what they were doing. I wish I had never asked for this. They are making me miserable because I left without them.”
Comments were almost unanimous on the parents being “entitled” and in the wrong. One user wrote: “NTA they seriously think the ship will delay for 45 minutes, yea no. The docks and ship have a schedule to keep. They are adults and need to be responsible for getting back on time. Which is something you have figured out in less than 6 months of being an adult. At least you don’t have to go on any more vacations with them after this.”
Another fumed: “This is ALL on your parents.. They didn’t respect the ship schedule.” A third wrote: “What precisely do they think you could have done? Kidnapped the captain? Staged your own drowning? You didn’t abandon them, they abandoned you, don’t let them weasel word this around to being your fault in any way, shape or form!”
