AITA for breaking a $40 beard trimmer by throwing it at a brick wall?

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Posted Feb 20, 2023, 12:18 AM UTC

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I'm on terrible PMDD (PMS on steroids) right now. I was cutting my spouse's hair on the porch. While searching in a bag for a #2 comb for the big clippers, I knocked a smaller (but still heavy) trimmer from the counter onto my toe. It landed square on, splitting the skin, bleeding, and felt like my toe bones had been crushed. It was excruciating. I cursed, picked up the trimmer, and threw it out the already open porch door in a pain-fueled rage, possibly causing it to hit an adjacent brick wall. It still works, but the casing is broken causing it to slip out of the casing and not work as well as it vibrates and the moving parts are no longer contained by the casing when this happens, so you have to hold the bottom end together while you're using it so it doesn't come apart. It was my husband's "favorite thing". He's really pissed at me because he "doesn't have many nice things" (not true) and I didn't need to do that. I apologized and said that I made a bad choice fueled by PMS and extreme pain. I finished his haircut while my toe was burning and throbbing with pain. He never asked me how my toe was or if I was OK. I'm now getting the silent treatment, while I'm sitting with my foot elevated, toe throbbing and swollen. I agree that what I did was stupid, but do I really need to be punished over something we can easily replace? This is not a habit of mine.

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PsiBlazePooperintendant [62]•

YTA It doesn't matter WHY you broke his trimmer. What matters is that you actively threw it.

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