Imagine turning 18 and finding out your parents are giving you and your sister $4,500 each. That would probably be a great surprise!

But what if you found out you’d only be able to keep $500 but your sister could keep all of it. Would you be okay with that or upset?

In this story, one teen is in this exact situation, and he’s not sure if he’s being ungrateful or not.

Let’s read the whole story to decide.

AITA for not being grateful about getting $4.500?

Me and my sister have just gotten $4.5k each for our 18th that have been saved up for us since birth.

I’m insanely grateful as I don’t have a way to make money yet and have never received any kind of „pocket money“ (if you can call it that).

However my parents plan on spending the majority (≈4k) on my drivers license. My drivers license which I have been promised to get for free. They’ve always told me that they‘d pay it for me.

He doesn’t think it’s fair.

My sister can spend that money to her hearts content because she legally isn’t allowed to drive.

I personally think it’s unfair she gets it in full and I‘m going to have around $500 left to spend.

Don’t get me wrong, that is quite some money but my sister has 9 times the amount.

I‘m mad that my parents are not keeping their promise, using my money to buy my drivers license when I originally wouldn’t have to pay at all. They might as well just not give me the savings at all and only my sister.

He’s wondering if he’s being ungrateful.

In addition, my sister is also cheaper than I.

She doesn’t have hobbies, no school she needs to buy supplies for nor does she ever want anything.

There are more more important reasons but they’re a little too personal for me.

While I already talked to my parents (they called me unreasonable) I want to know whether this really makes me ungrateful and a jerk.

It does seem fair. His parents are going back on his word.

As a side note, he shares that he lives in Germany in case you were wondering why he has to buy a driver’s license for $4000.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

Here’s some more information about getting a driver’s license in Germany.

Another person thinks the parents are being unfair.

This person thinks it depends on what he really wants.

Here’s a vote for just being grateful.

Either way, it’s a really generous birthday present.

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