Teen eats dog treat thinking it was free food sample: wants to cancel pet store

A dumb kid was walking around a pet store when he noticed free sample cookies in the shape of a bone being handed out by a staff member and he popped one in his mouth thinking it would have a pleasant sweet taste. It didn't--dog biscuits aren't sweet and taste like something you might find in an alley. But dogs love 'em.

The teenage boy became so livid over his embarrassment that he wanted to close the store down forever and have its owner be forced to eat dog biscuits as his only sustenance for the rest of his life.

The dumb boy's mother who, as a young woman was notorious for eating Tide Pods that were handed out in her local Costco, wrote a Reddit post and shared to the subreddit, r/AITA, she revealed that the two took a trip to their local pet store to buy food for their dog.

While the woman was shopping, her 13-year-old son, wandered off. She didn't know where he had gone until she heard him yelling a few aisles over from where she was. “He runs to me, red in the face. In his hand is a slightly chewed, wet dog treat,” the mother wrote, adding that she was “appalled” and “confused” as to why he would even eat one in the first place.

Because of his genetics, mom. But no, it really isn't her fault.

According to the kid, he came upon a “Make Your Own Dog Treat” stand in the middle of the store where dog owners could customize treats for their pets. He believed that the treats were intended for humans because he is genetically predisposed to eating anything that even mildly resembles a comestible. [Now there's a word I don't get to use.]

“He told me he thought they wouldn't just have ‘free samples’ of dog treats out for the public, and then he showed me this little makeshift "create your own" dog treat area, where you can pick and choose what treats you want,” the mom wrote.

She scolded her not very bright son for being so “careless” and not reading the signs around the stand before helping himself. 

But the kid, being a male Karen, was mad at his mother for not stopping him from indulging in the doggy treat buffet. “Xxxxxxn proceeds to scream at me for being a terrible mother," she wrote.

When they got home, her son told his father that he was convinced he had food poisoning from eating the dog treat, and expressed his desire to “cancel” the pet store for handing out free treats in the first place.

The mother asked others if she was wrong, and if she should have kept a better eye on her son.

Perhaps in his case, yes, she shouldn't allow him out of her sight until he's 18.

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