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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/GlassesThrowRA on 2023-09-24 14:11:02.
Hi (throwaway)
I(24f) still live at home with my parents and sister Amy(25f) but will be moving away to work in a few weeks. I don’t have my driver’s license yet because I feel anxious about driving but I want to get it before I leave. I don’t have terrible vision but I can’t drive legally without my glasses. I struggle to see sometimes but it hasn’t been a major issue disrupting my day to day.
Because I haven’t necessarily needed my glasses, I haven’t used them in a few months. However, since I want to take my driving test soon I need them for lessons. For the past month or so I’ve been looking around the house for them and asking my family if they’ve seen them, but everyone has said they haven’t. I knew for certain they were in the house as I was afraid of losing them while out so I never left the house with them.
Fast forward to today - I’m home alone and have been searching every room top to bottom, and went into my Amy’s room to check. We typically don’t go through each other’s things so I acknowledge I was wrong to pry, but I found my glasses hidden behind some books on her shelf. I was happy to have found them, but confused about how they ended up there. When she got home from the temple a few hours later I confronted her casually and she laughed. Essentially, she thought it was cute that I had to squint to watch things on TV and wanted to see how long I could go without them.
I voiced my annoyance at the prank and her wasting my time, but was willing to just drop it and move forward. She got mad that I was upset and said I had no right to go through her belongings in the first place, and no right to be upset over a harmless joke. Sure I could have held out and she may have given them back, but the fact that she saw me panic so much and said nothing bothers me.
I haven’t spoken to anyone else about this yet but, AITA for going through her belongings without permission even though she was intentionally hiding my glasses from me?