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'

Q: CLAIM : The following post is HYPOTHETICAL. POST : My parents divorced back when I was 14. My mom told me she was cheated on by my dad and it was a final straw, so they ended it. I wasn't too affected by this at first. I just remember being hurt about the lack of time he spent with us. He would rarely see us once every two months, and the one time he had Christmas with us he only stayed for a few hours and then left.

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My mother eventually took him to court. She was fully supporting a household of four, and one of us (my older brother) was going through college.  She wanted more child support, so she fought for it.  We were winning by a landslide until she let him win. Apparently he was a blabbering fool, crying about how much he loved his kids but how he doesn't have the money to support us. Feeling bad, he gave him the case and he was able to pay less child support than before.

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From then on he was required to see us more. Though, that didn't stop him from canceling once every two months, maybe more. We (my sister and I) were now required to spend every other weekend with him, doing whatever he wanted. It kinda hurt that he only started seeing us after the court case, but whatever. It didn't matter. He would scream and yell, then text us how much he loves us the next day. Now I'm heading to university soon.  We have him paying half of everything my mom is paying. Recently, however, my mom was asked to sign off this asset that was said to be split 50/50 between them. When she asked for half of whatever he was getting from it, he sent her a nasty voicemail threatening to take away my florida prepaid college. (for those who don't know, florida prepaid is a system that allows parents to start paying off their child's college early. So, once they hit college, a good amount of their fees are paid off. According to our estimates, it would've cut my expenses by half, maybe even more. This excludes all scholarships as well.)

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It was basically hearing my own father say, "I would rather get this extra 5000 than see my daughter go to college". I'm not a super smart girl. I'm not getting a free ride. I NEED that prepaid. To top it all off, my mother was in a phone call with him and he admitted to LYING in court and ACTING like he was crying in order to get to pay less child support. He was laughing, saying he just played her the whole time. My mother is a fucking saint.  She hates her boss, yet she works as many hours as she can just to give us the life we have, and to hear that my dad, who didn't even TRY to see us before the court old him to, faked cried just to fool my mother into giving in... well, I'm completely done with him. When graduation happens, I want to cut ties. I don't want this man in my life anymore. Maybe I'm overdramatic. As much as I said, he HAS been a good father in other ways. Idk. I know a HS graduation is a lot for some parents - it's a one time thing. But, I don't know if I can invite him anymore.

A: yes
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Q: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : My coworker who is also a friend of mine has a vacation coming up for an important event. She was unable to get the day before her vacation block approved due to schedule conflicts with other co-workers, but the event includes this day. She asked me to cover it since we work the same shift, but I said no because I also have a celebratory event planned for that weekend.  


Relevant factors: 

* We have known each other relatively longer and generally try to help each other out, so I feel pretty guilty.
* I feel like my friend was trying to guilt me into taking it when it's not solely my obligation to make sure that she can get to this event.
* My co-worker's event is considered by most to be more important than mine.
* I DID offer to cover it if none of my other coworkers were willing to.
* It is easier for me to cover it in terms of changing around shifts vs. her having to ask other coworkers.
* We have per diem co-workers who **should** be pulled to help cover but our scheduling method can make this tricky as the per diems/part timers have choices about what to pick up.

A: no
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Q: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : This happened a week ago. I'm kind of feeling anxious about this even though my friends reassured me I did nothing wrong. I just wanted reddits opinion. 

Last week, my friend (Rob) and I visited Victoria, B.C., and we came back to Vancouver on a ferry that was absolutely full. It was the most popular crossing time back home and throughout the duration of the crossing, the steward kept making announcements to please remove jackets and bags from seats because people have no where to sit. Stupidly, my friend and I decided to eat before finding a seat. Once we were done, we walked around the ferry, all levels, trying to get a seat with no luck. Finally, we came across a row of seats that were empty, with 2 books taking up seats right in the middle. In my brain, this meant that those 2 middle seats are "reserved" by someone, so my friend and I took the seats on the sides (aisle and window). We both thought this would be fine, as we left the "reserved" seats empty. 20 minutes later, a couple comes by. I was reading, Rob was sleeping. I heard them talk (not English) so I looked up at them and then they asked me why we took their seats. I haaaate confrontation as I have pretty bad social anxiety. I politely told them that my friend and I were looking for seats and we took the 2 that were empty. They are welcome to return to the 2 seats they reserved. Then they told me that they had in fact reserved all 4 seats and that their friends are coming back. I apologized again, but I said I wouldn't move because:
1. Only 2 of 4 seats were "reserved". 
2. There were 4 people in their party, they couldve left someone behind to guard their seats. They brought their food and drink over to the seats so it's not like they just went to eat in the cafeteria area of the ferry. They were going to eat in their seats. 
3. Rob and I walked over 20km that day, I wasn't going to walk all over the damn ferry again. It was too cold to sit outside. 

I would appreciate your opinion. 

Sorry for the wall of text, am on mobile. 



A:
yes
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