Well, this sounds classy!

The person who wrote this story on Reddit’s “Am I the *******?” page is having a disagreement with their cheapskate parents because their parents want to eat…wait for it…sandwiches in a parking lot after their graduation.

But they want to splurge for once and go out to dinner.

Are they doing anything wrong?

Read on and see what you think!

AITA for telling my parents I want to do something special for graduating and not eat lunch in a parking lot?

“I am graduating with my college degree in just a few weeks and my parents are coming in to town for graduation.

We are a solid middle class family, but my parents are extremely budget conscious, and we grew up watching every single penny, and most would consider them to be “cheap” (even if we didn’t have to be).

This is how they grew up.

They did a lot of things to save money growing up, but one of the biggest is packing their own lunch and dinner whenever they would go anywhere.

Sporting events, concerts, vacations, anywhere you could see them with a huge cooler filled with sandwiches or a portable tailgate grill to cook up something in the parking lot.

They never go out to eat, and while that’s fine (and taught me good money habits), the inconvenience of it all got to be a pain.

From lugging giant coolers around all day, to losing space in the car for road trips, to honestly the embarrassment of the weird looks we would get from grilling in the hotel parking lot, it just registered that it wasn’t normal.

They’ve changed…

The older I got the less sense it made, especially when you’re on a vacation, the last thing I want to do is run to the grocery store or have to put in some work to get my meals.

On top of that, I always enjoy trying new restaurants and different food, so when I got into doing things on my own, I realized I wasn’t going to be this way.

For some reason “packing sandwiches” is something that is really important to them. I don’t know what it is, but anytime there’s a suggestion to do something other than that they don’t take it well.

On the day of my graduation, it was suggested that they pack sandwiches for lunch and eat them in the parking lot after graduation was over.

Come on!

I raised an objection to it, saying that I will have just accomplished something big and quite frankly the last thing I want to do is immediately set up lawn chairs and sit out in the heat in dress clothes eating a sandwich, and that we should go to one of the cool places in my college town.

I suggested we go somewhere low key (and not even remotely expensive), enjoy a nice meal and just relax and enjoy the day.

They went on to lecture about how “well this what we do” and all sorts of other stuff, so I just resorted to saying I was going to go out with some friends instead, but I’d be happy to hang out with them after that.

I really don’t want to be pampered or spoiled or go to some five-star steakhouse, but I was irked that my once in a lifetime accomplishment would just be shrugged off and we would treat it like any other day.

That didn’t go over well…

They didn’t take this well and got upset at me, calling me ungrateful and saying I was being difficult for no reason. They’re still going to come, but the conversation has surely been a sore spot.

AITA for wanting to go do something different, or should I just have gone with what they wanted to keep them happy?”

Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This person chimed in.

Another reader said they’re NTA.

This Reddit user spoke up.

Another reader shared their thoughts.

And this individual spoke up.

Their parents sound like they have a few screws loose…

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