Imagine cooking dinner for your family, but when dinner is ready everyone ignores you. Would you eat alone and save the leftovers for later, or would you get your family’s attention, forcing them to come to the table?

In today’s story, one person’s family is staying with them. In an effort to be a good host, this person cooked dinner for everyone, but they were shocked at how their family reacted (or failed to react) when dinner was ready.

Now, they’re wondering if they overreacted.

Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AITA for dumping dinner in the trash and asking my family not to stay at my place again?

My family is visiting for a couple of days: my brother, his wife, and their two kids.

I tried to be a good host and cooked a nice dinner for everyone on their last evening here even though I had a busy day at work.

For context, my house has an open floor plan, so we were all in the same area.

Nobody was paying attention.

I let everyone know that dinner was ready, but no one came to the table.

I thought maybe they hadn’t heard me because the TV was on, so I repeated myself, but still got no response.

I went ahead and made my plate and sat down to eat.

Meanwhile, my brother’s wife was watching Facebook videos, my brother was watching football, and their kids were playing video games.

Nobody else ate dinner.

When I finished eating, I picked up my plate and asked if anyone was going to eat.

My brother got up and went to smoke outside, the kids kept ignoring me, and his wife just gestured that she was busy.

After 20 minutes, the food was cold, so I threw it away.

I wished them good night and told them I wasn’t their servant, and that the least they could do was acknowledge the effort someone puts into cooking for them.

I also told my brother he wasn’t welcome to stay at my place again.

How rude! The visiting family could at least acknowledge OP and either come to the table to eat or politely excuse themselves by explaining that they’re not hungry. That said, why throw away the food when you could save it for lunch the next day?

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person would’ve had a stronger reaction.

Let them eat pizza.

The brother is the real problem.

The family was really rude.

This person defends dumping the food in the trash instead of saving it for later.

I can’t imagine how they thought it was okay to be so rude.