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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Beneficial_Cause1935 on 2023-06-24 23:28:28+00:00.
To give some background, every year one of my(26m) friends named Jared hosts a gathering up at his cottage. Normally the gathering is done on a rotation where each weekend he will invite 2-4 people up at a time. This year he decided to do something different and invite everyone up to the cottage at the same time. To accommodate the twelve of us who would be going for the three days the plan was to have everyone camp outside. During the planning of this two people stated that they didn’t have any form of camping gear. To help them out I told them that I have a tent and two cots that they can use for the entirety of the weekend. The two of them had no issues with this up until the day of the actual gathering came around.
Last weekend like always rather than driving I flew my Cessna 185 seaplane to the cottage as it’s on a nice lake. When it came time to pitch all the tents with the help of Jared we pulled my plane onto the grassy part of his backyard. When that was done I pulled out and pitched my special plane camping tent. The tent I have is one where you drape it over your plane’s wing before hooking it into the ground. When that is done you have an enclosed tent with everything but a floor. When the two people I was helping named Ashley and Jen saw the tent and cots they had no issues with the arrangement. That was until Ashley asked where I was going to sleep to which I said I would be in the back of the plane. The moment I said this Ashley started asking to be the one to sleep in it as she didn’t want to sleep in a tent without a floor.
When I told her no she got really upset and started going off on me about how I am an asshole for "misleading’ her. Looking back on things I am on the fence as to whether or not I am the asshole. While I stayed true to my word, I never told them the specifics of my gear which makes me think I might be the asshole here.
Am I the asshole?
First, I would love a sea plane. I took some flying lessons when I moved from the UK to Australia, as three hours of lessons (2 theory, 1 practical) was the same price as three hours of driving school in the UK. I got to the point of doing an unassisted solo landing, and then for some reason stopped.
But no, you’re NTA. Could have probably packed a ground sheet though.