I am a stay at home mum with two children: Dayna, 12F and Miles, 14M. Dayna’s started watching pranks on YouTube and tiktok, and played a few harmless ones we all laughed at. But today I thought Dayna went too far. She put plastic wrap over the toilet bowl, so whoever peec would get it everywhere. Miles went in next, and his pee splashed all over him. He came down, crying, and felt embarrassed as he was 14 and thought stuff like this shouldn’t happen to him. I assured him it was okay, to shower (we have two bathrooms) and get clean clothes on. He went to shower then I called Dayna in and said it wasn’t okay to do pranks like that and as a punishment she had to clean the bathroom. She cried and said it wasn’t fair, but I made her clean everything. She complained to my husband when he hot home, and he said my punishment was unfair and guys need to clean up their own mess. So, AITA?
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I am a stay at home mum with two children: Dayna, 12F and Miles, 14M. Dayna’s started watching pranks on YouTube and tiktok, and played a few harmless ones we all laughed at. But today I thought Dayna went too far. She put plastic wrap over the toilet bowl, so whoever peec would get it everywhere. Miles went in next, and his pee splashed all over him. He came down, crying, and felt embarrassed as he was 14 and thought stuff like this shouldn’t happen to him. I assured him it was okay, to shower (we have two bathrooms) and get clean clothes on. He went to shower then I called Dayna in and said it wasn’t okay to do pranks like that and as a punishment she had to clean the bathroom. She cried and said it wasn’t fair, but I made her clean everything. She complained to my husband when he hot home, and he said my punishment was unfair and guys need to clean up their own mess. So, AITA?
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NTA. Yes, guys need to clean up after themselves but people who pull pranks should also expect to clean up the fallout from the prank.
NTA. If your son made the mess by himself, then sure, he could clean it up. However, your daughter is the entire reason that the mess happened. She should be responsible for the mess.
NTA. She thought the prank was funny but didn’t think about the mess it caused. It’s a good lesson for her to clean up her own messes (literally and figuratively). If she doesn’t want the responsibility, she should think before pranking.
That WAS Dayna’s mess and it was only right she had to clean up after herself.
NTA
I think you probably stopped the pranks with them consequences
NTA. That wasn’t his mess, it was hers and it’s a valuable lesson to think about consequences and unintended results.
I heard this EXACT story earlier but the sexes were swapped. Was watching Reddit AI stories on Youtube fun?
NTA
The person who made the mess cleans it up. The urine would not be all over the bathroom if it were not for the plastic wrap.
The prank in question has been around since plastic wrap was commercially available. One of my cousins pulled this at our house back in the late 1970’s. The cousin was required to clean up the mess he caused. (IIRC, Mom also chewed out her little brother- father of the beast- for letting his son think pranks were okay in her home.)
Nta that’s called natural consequences and it’s not a funny prank
YTA for letting your 12yo watch YouTube and TikTok unsupervised.