People generally don’t like to receive unsolicited advice. Still, sometimes you have to offer someone a heads-up to help them avoid a catastrophe or other foreseeable misfortune. But what happens when they don’t listen and the thing you were trying to protect them from happens? A woman I’ll call Laurie found herself in that exact situation.
Setting The Stage
Laurie’s boyfriend has a good job and has no problem spending money on stuff that matters to him—but spending money on necessities? Not so much. They each have their own places to live and alternate where they spend the night. His bed has a lousy mattress with a spring that repeatedly snapped her in the back of the legs. She told him he needed to replace the mattress. He kept saying he would but never did.
Laughing at Him
One morning, the errant spring caught him in a sensitive area of his body. Laurie couldn’t help but laugh at him. He thinks she was in the wrong for laughing at his pain. She replied that he didn’t care when it was her legs getting injured by his bedspring. Laurie wants to know who’s right and who’s wrong. The internet had its say about whose side it was on.
He Should Have Listened
“He probably should have listened to you. It was kind of a mean thing to laugh at him, but he ignored it when you were getting it from the mattress,” comments a person online. Laurie’s boyfriend definitely should have taken her advice earlier.
Seeing the Humor
Another user says they can’t imagine being upset with their girlfriend in this scenario and that they’d both get a good laugh from his mishap. At least he’s able to see the humor in the situation. The couple that laughs together stays together.
No Room To Complain
A third commenter believes Laurie’s boyfriend cannot complain about her laughing at him. He had no problem with her being repeatedly injured by his mattress. A third participant says what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
He Had It Coming
After ignoring Laurie’s advice to buy a new mattress, someone on the thread contends, “He had that coming! Maybe now he will replace the mattress.” At the same time, somebody else agrees, writing, “Whatever motivates him to buy a new mattress, right?”
He Was Warned
One contributor took exception to the boyfriend’s indifference to his defective mattress until he became collateral damage. If he couldn’t take Laurie seriously when she told him the mattress spring snapped her, then there’s no reason to take him seriously when it snaps him, concludes a respondent.
A Sign of His Immaturity
A commenter in the forum advises Laurie to take note if her boyfriend does or doesn’t buy a new mattress. If he doesn’t, she should take this as a sign he’ll never grow up and buy the necessities of life.
The Laughter Was Justified
This incident may make him realize why a good quality mattress is necessary for him physically and for having a healthy relationship, a member of the online forum states. “Laughing at this situation comes naturally. It’s not that you were being malicious and enjoying his suffering. You were just laughing at the situation and his idiocy,” they continue.
Why Is He So Mad?
An individual sympathetic to Laurie is baffled that her boyfriend is upset with her, especially since she warned him. They say that they and their partner would share a good laugh about it for weeks if something like that ever happened to them.
Laughter Was Inappropriate
One user admonishes Laurie for laughing at her boyfriend, saying that they’ve always found laughing at someone else getting hurt strange, although they feel he got a bit of karmic justice.
Who’s Right and Who’s Wrong?
Many in the online community feel Laurie was justified in laughing, considering the circumstances.
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