DREAMNET #4 - CAUGHT REDDIT HANDED

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DREAMNET

Welcome to DreamNet!
To assist you in your goal of making meaningful connections, once in a while, you'll be asked a fun question or prompted to play a lighthearted game designed to spark conversation, with the opportunity to share your answers with fellow dreamers!

Today's question is...

Am I The Asshole?

Recall a conflict in your life (which can be completely truthful, heavily embellished, or a flat out fabrication) and submit your tale of woe to your fellow Dreamers for judgement as to whether or not you were in the wrong! Then read the stories of others, and pick a side using one of the following abbreviations:

YTA - "You're the asshole"
NTA - "Not the asshole" (may imply that the other party is the one in the wrong)
ESH - "Everyone sucks here," meaning everyone was in the wrong
NAH - "No assholes here," meaning no one is in the wrong

Already know you're the asshole, or just want to share something funny without judgement? Consider sharing a TIFU (today I fucked up) story instead!

Post this in a comment to participate!


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@expendable

[draculaslifecoach]

BARNEY ROSS ⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅

Am I the Asshole for shooting a former employee? Here's the situation: I got a team for hire. We do what you'd call odd jobs--information retrieval, hostage extraction, the occasional 'strategic target elimination.' So me and my team had this job in Somalia to do the second one: hostage extraction. Long story short, guy on my team's got a drug problem and he got carried away on the assignment. Hostages were fine, but guy went into business for himself and I had to let him go. Flash forward a few days, and we get this new job: third one, elimination job. My guy comes looking for work, but I tell him no. He's out, he's still using and I can't trust him. He gets pissy about it, sells us out to the guy we were hired to go after, and then takes the payday a step further by coming after me and one of my men. Chases us down on the street, causes a crash, there's a fight, and by the time I get my hands on my gun he's about to impale his partner on a piece of rebar or something. So I shot him. He claimed he was just gonna scare the guy while he was bleeding out, but I call bullshit. Am I the asshole? Or was it justified? What do you think?

@banshee

[wantadistraction]

You had no reason to believe that he was just doing it to scare the guy. So you were justified in your actions and it sounds like he was the one being an asshole. Not that he was thinking straight from what it sounds like but still.

Do you feel bad about it or would you make the same choices over again?

[draculaslifecoach]

No, I don't--and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Caught a little bit of shit for it before I got here, but not much. Still, sometimes it bugs me a little. I mean, he's still one of mine, you know?

[wantadistraction]

Did you kill him?

[draculaslifecoach]

[sent a full two minutes later]

No. Let him think I had, though.

He made it right then. Gave us the info we needed to go in and fix one hell of a mess.

[sent five minutes later]

Let me save that girl in Vilena. The nightmare you got stuck in?

[wantadistraction]

So you didn't shoot him to kill him which means you made a calculated choice beforehand since you don't seem like the type of man to miss the shots you're taking.

[ She had a feeling this was a hard topic for him to talk about and the revelation that it had been tied to Vilena made sense. ]

I remember. That whole thing...is kind of hard to forget.

[ She didn't have the heart to tell him that she'd had a nightmare about it. ]

Still not the asshole though.

[draculaslifecoach]

Your faith is touching.

[It's also correct--but he's not preening. Nope. You're preening. Not him no sir.]

I'm sorry you saw that. Story of my life, unfortunately.

One more reason you're wrong about that part: I am an asshole.

I'm serious, I'm not the kind of guy you wanna know, much as you enjoy trying to crawl into my head.

[wantadistraction]

You’re welcome.

[ She is smirking because you’re failing at hiding the preening, Barney. ]

In a general sense, I’m not discounting that you might be an asshole. I’m guessing that you need to be to deal with the things you have seen and have to do.

I was just saying that in this specific instance…

I wasn’t aware that I was trying to crawl into your head.

[draculaslifecoach]

Yeah, you are. The guy I shot? Fulbright scholar. Nuts, but a genius.

Basically? I know when I’m being verbally dissected to see what’s inside.

Not necessarily a bad thing though. Kinda missed it.

[wantadistraction]

I can imagine I'm nicer to look at while you're being dissected, right? Your words.

[ At least about the 'verbally dissected' part. ]

But I'm not trying to do that, you know. I'm just trying to get to know you.

[woocas]

sounds like u really got into some shit dude

nta btw

[draculaslifecoach]

Story of my life, kid.

Does that hold even if I let the guy think he was dying so he'd feed me intel?

[woocas]

yo i'm 23 tymv

[Close enough, anyways. Thanks to time shenanigans between home, Faerie, and here.]

are u fishing for an asshole judgment or something dude

[draculaslifecoach]

I'm old enough to be your grandfather. You're still a kid.

Maybe. I don't know. Bugs me sometimes is all. Caught a lot of shit for it back home, but I can't decide if I deserve the crap or not. I mean, I do, but for that specifically you know?

[woocas]

dude what?? u know how to text

that's the guilt talking, which is 100% a normal reaction tbh. but considering the circumstances probably not the worst decision to make in the heat of the moment