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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Disastrous_Top1432 on 2023-08-24 16:37:17.
I live in British Columbia and my husband and I keep bees on our acreage. We live in an agricultural area and several of or neighbors also have hives.
A family just moved into our area from Vancouver. They sold their condo for a ridiculous amount of money and bought an acreage out here.
They seemed like nice enough people until they saw me heading out to fog my bees wearing my veil and a half mask.
The lady came over that night and told me that her son is deathly allergic to bees and that I needed to get rid of my hives. I told her that I consider my bees to be livestock and that I use the honey and wax in my hobbies and to make money. I also pointed out that this is an agricultural area and bees come with the territory.
She said that she would go tell them the same thing and that it would be the neighborly thing to do to care more about her son’s life than some bees.
I politely told her no again and my husband came to see what was up. When she saw him she said that now she understood why I didn’t care about her son because a gay man wouldn’t ever know the love for a real child. This is when I lost my temper and told her to get off my property and that I would call the cops on her if she ever came back.
My husband said I could have handled it better and that antagonizing her would be a bad thing in the long run.