In this task you are given an anecdote. You must find out whether the anecdote is something the author has done or is considering doing. Label the instances as "HISTORICAL" when the author has already done something and label them as "HYPOTHETICAL" when the author is considering doing something in the future.
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Question: I'll try to put as many details as possible. 

I live in AL, USA. In Oct 2015, while I was sleeping next to my newborn, my door was kicked in. I woke up immediately and seconds (felt like minutes) later, one guy enters my bedroom, we lock eyes, he and his friend run. I never saw the friend, but I was able to pick the guy out of a line-up of assorted mugshots. So yes, he has a prior conviction. He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in Jan 2016. It's now Jan 2019, and I get a call from the district attorney saying he is being put up for parole, the hearing is later this month, and if I oppose him having parole, I should show up and voice my experience for a better chance at his parole being denied. And they were also going to write a letter on my behalf. 

So I go to talk to my SO about my options, and he says I should let it go. Granted, he was at work. He didn't experience the pure fear that I felt. He didn't experience the violation of a strange person in our private home, it disturbed my peace and I still have nightmares about that crack headed man's face. I've also had a friend voice her opinion of, "oh he's been locked in that hell hole for 3 years, I think that's punishment enough, maybe he's a changed man and just wants to see his family again." I don't have any empathy for the man. But others seem too. 

So, am I the asshole for wanting to show up and do my best to have him serve the full 10? 

Answer: HISTORICAL


Question: I’ve been working at this store for almost 6 months now, and it’s my first “official” job. Once I applied, I told the managers that I could not work on Tuesdays and Thursdays due to me being in college. For the first few months, they’ve been good with not scheduling me on those days but it’s not until recently that they’ve started to screw me over. 

I decided to take more classes this semester so I can transfer quicker, but because of this I requested a third day off so I can focus on my education. I didn’t give a specific day of the week; I just needed more time to deal with a larger workload. Once I told them that they didn’t seem to happy about it. 

The GM of the store rushed me to learn every position in the restaurant so I can close whatever role they needed that night. I’ve brought up several times that I need to have a third day off so I can focus on my education, and they’ve told me that they would fix the next schedule, and they never do. I feel like I ended up being the scape goat of the store, as in whenever someone can’t work a day, I’ll cover that position until they come back on the schedule. 

Last week was the major turning point, as the GM approved 5 vacations for spring break, leaving everyone to work just under 40 hours so they didn’t have to pay overtime and work ridiculous hours. For almost a month they’ve been having me work weird days, having my off days not work with my schedule but with theirs, and notifying me to clock in later that schedules so they can save hours once I walk in the restaurant. This is causing my grades to drop, my health to deteriorate, and my social life to completely disappear. 

I already requested a week off so I can have some time to unwind and destress because this job is literally killing me. At this point, I’m only working there cause I can’t find another job at the moment and I enjoy being around the other coworkers. I understand that they’re understaff and that several people have already quit, but that doesn’t justify the managers to completely abuse my availability because they know I need the money. 

TL;DR: managers are overworking me knowing I’m taking more classes, neglecting my requested time off and getting mad that I’m hitting overtime when they schedule me near 40+ hours a week

Answer: HYPOTHETICAL


Question: First up, on mobile yada yada, throwaway so it can’t be tied back to me, friendo is active on cringe subs and I dunno if this counts so playing it safe, with that out the way, on with the show.

So for a while now I’ve been talking to this friend online, we’ve become really close, shared a whole lotta shit that hasn’t really been shared to other people, point is, we’re really close.

Now going back a bit, we’ve a history of getting each other games as gifts, typically things we want to play with each other but one or the other of us is in a bit of a tough spot financially, so we nab it for them, never really anything expensive, just more indie stuff, usually $20-30 tops.

Now it being Christmas and all recently I decided I’d get them something special, and I know they’d been wanting to try this game, it was more expensive than our usual sort of game (not AAA, but that sort of pricing), but they’d really enjoyed the last in the series and had been saying they wanted to check it out when they got the money, so I figured why not.

At the time they didn’t get me anything, but I was fine with that cause again, money, and also I’m really bad at accepting gifts so I sorta refused to say if I wanted anything (though in fairness at the time there wasn’t really anything I was looking into that was particularly cheap).

So anyway, time passes by and a YouTuber I watch starts up a new series of an older game that I really get into watching and want to play, as it so happens my friend has the game and had been playing it recently, so I dropped a few not so subtle hints about really wanting to play it at some point, to be absolutely clear this wasn’t a demand for them to get me it or anything, more trying to get it in their mind for the next time they were looking at getting me something.

Right now with (most) of the backstory out the way, on with the potential assholery. Recently friendo has been going through a bit of a rough time, and I’ve been trying to help them out as best as I can, and I guess they wanted to reward me (personally I don’t really feel it’s warranted, but I’m grateful nonetheless), and so in our typical fashion they decided to pick me up a game

Now they’re also a frequent watcher of the youtubes, and someone they follow started playing a game very similar to the game I’ve rather unsubtly hinted at, and have been asking what I think of it. I’ve said I think it looks good, but Whilst I haven’t outright said it, I’ve tried to hint I’d prefer the other one (which I’d like to add is cheaper than the game friendo was talking about).

To round it up, friendo ended up getting me the second game, and whilst I’m grateful for the thought, I’m finding myself disappointed that they got me it instead of the other game I’ve been hinting at for weeks, I haven’t shown this at all to them, and I fully intend to give the game a go, I just wanted a second (or however many people) opinion on if I’m an asshole for being disappointed, and if I’d be the asshole if I kept hinting about the other game after a little while?

Apologies for the long post, TLDR:
Friend who I’ve been hinting at wanting a certain game for a while got me another game of the same genre(?). AITA for being a little disappointed they got me the other game instead?

Answer:
HISTORICAL


