Isn’t it interesting to witness adults act like children over the tiniest things?

This woman shares how her best friend gifted her something and later requested it back!

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AITA for not returning a carpet cleaner that was gifted to me years ago?

2 or 3 years ago (must’ve been 2023 sometime) my then best friend, we’ll call her Courtney (35f) gave me (35f) her carpet cleaner.

Watch how things escalated…

I did not ask for it, she said her grandma was keeping it at her house because she didn’t need it anymore and that she (Courtney) didn’t have any carpet in her house so she didn’t need it either.

She did mention her grandma may one day ask for it back. I accepted.

Fast forward to Christmas 2024, I mentioned using the carpet cleaner at my in laws because their carpet smelled like dog pee.

Courtney threw a fit because I ruined the cleaner using it on dog pee. She has cats & so does her grandma & cats are sensitive to smells.

UH OH…

I said well if that’s ruining it I did that long ago because I used it on my carpet after we got our puppy a year before.

She knew when she gave it to me I had a dog, knew I had since gotten a puppy, so I’m not sure what she was expecting. Was I not supposed to use it? At any rate she said it was officially mine now because I ruined it.

We moved on.

Fast forward to June 2025, we had a falling out.

That’s INSANE!

I tried many times to fix it, she blocked me every way I reached out so I gave up. I have accepted our 20+ year friendship is over.

Now here we are January of 2026.

Courtney’s grandma passed away last summer. She left Courtney some money. I was reached out to last night by a mutual friend that Courtney bought a house and needs her carpet cleaner back.

I’m dumb founded.

They’ve been mad over this for years!

She gave it to me 3 years ago, she told me over a year ago I ruined it and she didn’t want it back, she burned down our friendship 7 months ago and cut me out of her life.

Now she’s reaching out, through someone else not even directly, to get it back and calling it hers? Is she insane?

I told the mutual friend no, she gave it away it’s not hers anymore. For context, Courtney is to this day spoiled rotten and extremely entitled, this is a normal character trait of hers.

Here’s where I’m conflicted. It did belong to her grandma who is no longer here. On one hand I’m like, it’s a carpet cleaner.

She’s questioning the whole situation!

I’m sure she has plenty of things from her grandma with sentimental value. What sentimental value does a carpet cleaner hold?

On the other hand, I feel kind of bad because however I see it, she might still have feelings about it being her grandma’s.

So, would I be the AH for not returning this carpet cleaner that was willingly given to me years ago?

GEEZ! That sounds so unnecessary!

Why would grown adults fight over a carpet cleaner?

Let’s find out what people on Reddit think about this one.

This user has some suggestions for this woman.

Exactly! This user knows the friend has no business being upset over something she gifted years ago.

This user thinks it is very petty of the friend to ask it back.

This user knows what to do if the friend reached out over this matter!

This user thinks this lady is lucky that the friend is out of her life.

Somebody’s being way too petty here!

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.