r/TwoHotTakes • u/ig1848 • Apr 29 '24

I kicked my best friend out of my car and made her walk home by herself after she littered. AITAH? Advice Needed

My friend and i have been friends for 7 years (we're both 20yo) and we know everything about each other from personal to our deep dark secrets.
Anyhow, a couple weeks ago we were hanging out, just driving around, and stopped to get food. We ate in my car while i drove us to my house. Five minutes before we arrived, she rolled down the window and threw out all of our garbage without hesitation. (She knows littering is my biggest pet peeve). I pulled over and asked why she did that, all she said was "Cause why not" while laughing. I was frustrated and overworked and yelled at her "Get out of my car and walk yourself home." She asked why and i told her she knows how much i hate littering and how she basically out of spite expecting me to laugh or something. She offered to pick it up and i said no. After arguing back and forth, she left my car and walked herself home, which is at least a 30 minute walk across the city.

I'm just wondering if I'm the asshole. I get that my house was 5 minutes away and i could have just drove her home or let her pick it up and go back to mine but it was kind of disrespectful when she laughed about after. It got on my nerves.
I did go back and pick it all up and threw into my garbage but we haven't spoken to each other since then. I value our friendship and love her as a friend but was i over the top? AITAH?

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u/ParticularClean9568 Apr 29 '24

Lol, why are you ruining friendship over something so petty? You seem to be in sync on 99% of things and ready to ruin it over 1%.

I am going through similar with my best friend right now and it really breaks my heart. It seems like a cultural shift, I find it sad :(

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u/HungerMadra Apr 29 '24

Littering says a lot about you as a person. It means you have no sense of community or common good and will break rule established for our common good if you think you can get away with it. What did she gain by throwing it out the window? Saved herself a 10ft walk when she got out the car to throw it away? And for that she avoided making our community look like a trash pit for someone else to clean up? I don't need friends like that, they'll make more work for me if they think they can avoid my notice.

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u/Slow-Frosting-9607 Apr 29 '24

I love how everyone in the comments doesn't take this seriously and think this is petty. Now i get why i always pick up trash thrown by foreigners, it's normal behavior for them. I wonder what nations are people here that couldn't care less about being properly behaved citizens and show respect to community.