TASK DEFINITION: Given a post that is a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation and an associated claim about its type, verify if the claim is true or not. The claim asks if the posts are historical or hypothetical. The posts are "HISTORICAL" when the author has already done something and they are "HYPOTHETICAL" when the author is considering doing something in the future. Say 'yes' if the claim is true otherwise say 'no'
PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : I feel like an absolute retard because this is the lamest post I've ever made in my life, but my girlfriend has been hinting to me that she wants a new phone for her very first Christmas (her Iphone 5 is 6 years old and fucked).

Just to preface, she's by no means gold digger, we always pay for one and other when we go out for a meal or buy something. We are both stingy people, and she has made me more conscious of my spending. 

Anyway, I'm happy to buy her a new phone, but she's been hinting at one of the newer model IPhones (IPhone 8, XR, w/e) which I think is a waste of money since, from my research, they aren't that different in specifications from the IPhone 6, which is far cheaper in comparison. I don't like the idea of disappointing her on Christmas but I'm not spending 800 - 1k AUD on some overvalued phone, so I implicitly said to her that the IPhone 6 is better bang for buck and than any higher model and she argued against me, saying that it was only 1 model after her phone, blah blah. 

Honestly the technical details of the argument are irrelevant, I just want to know how I should handle this behaviour. Am I being a stingy asshole? Am I an asshole for not wanting to buy a product I don't believe is worth it for HER? I was considering working part time for like 10 shifts just to pay for the phone XD but am I just spoiling her? Honestly if she said "Oh a 6 would be fucken sweeeeet" I would have done that for her but now she has pissed me off.

Help me assholes

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : Hi, first time poster in this subreddit but here we go. I started working for a larger truck stop company and am responsible for cleaning or working a cash register. This story starts when i was ringing out a customer with a few snack and a cup of ice. Our company wants us to charge for everything, as I am new i charged the 35 cents for the ice cup. The other employee working with me make the comment how he "doesn't charge ice cups and how it's not a big deal". I being new tol him i was just following the rules and charged him any way. At this point the customer freaks out calling me fat and a terrible person. I wa just following the rules. I just finished the transaction just this kinda like wtf is going on face. The customer proceeds to rant that truck drivers " pump millions of dollars into your local economy, and I'm a former US army veteran and he deserves alot more respect from shitty good for nothings like me". I apologized because he felt that way. My manager walked over hearing the commotion and the guy huffs off after getting his name from his dabge. He filed a complaint to corporate and I got wrote up for not providing a pleasant experience for the customer. Am I the Asshole?

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : Due to uni/career/relationship, both my sister and I moved away from the seaside town we grew up in around 20 years ago. I genuinely excuse my sister- she's thoroughly established in the city she lives in now, which is just about easily drivable to our home town, but is where her job, her children's school &amp; friends, her husband's job and her husband's family are. I can't excuse myself though. I currently live much further away, I can't drive so it's a 4 hour train journey and I need to take a couple of days' holiday and arrange for cat care to get home, and my partner and his family, and my job which is going well and which I could progress in and would like to progress in are here. I'm 40; I have no, and can't have, children, I live alone with my cat but my partner and I are happy and very much in love as we are which is living separately (for irrelevant reasons). But, my dad passed a couple of months ago so my mum is now on her own in the seaside town we both grew up in. She's doing really well; she has a lot of friends, she's making a lot of good progress in terms of adapting her life, my sister can visit more regularly than I can and does so and also has her children who want to see their grandma. But, the town is dead- there is no work there, it is run-down and younger (than me, but it was the same when I was 18 or so) people have to leave to find better work; my friends I grew up with have all but left- there is nothing for me there, unless I took a job at a supermarket or something and tried to work up which would be in stark contrast to the job I have now in the city I live in, which is nearly management level but still ok-but-not-great-paid but the benefits are good. I'm happy here, is what I'm saying. My partner, my flat, my job, my friends, practical things like my doctor are here, I can see a future here. But, my mum's on her own and it's difficult to get down to her as often as I'd like- the train fare is about 1/10 of what I earn a month, I need to take holiday to make (just the journey, I'm not meaning this in relation to seeing her) worth it otherwise I'm there and turning back round to go to the station, and I just keep thinking go home, go and live with her, don't leave her on her own... but, I also think she wouldn't want me to leave my job and be working minimum wage (I'm not exaggerating about that; there is NO decent, prospective work in the town I grew up in), and to not be with my boyfriend like I am now because I'm 40 and I don't want to start again with that and she really likes him and she knows we're happy together, and I now it's all relatively new because it's only been a couple of months since my dad passed and we're all still adjusting and it's probably too soon as my long-term family friend/uncle has advised me, to think about any big thing anyway, and I've only come back from seeing my mum today so I'm probably just feeling raw about it, but AITA for not thinking immediately and rightly- I should move back to my dead-end home town to be with my widowed mum? 

SOLUTION:
yes

