This incident is from the manga. I don't think it made it to the anime.

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AITA for feeding my obnoxious, smelly, lazy drunk crew member razor blades? I (he/him - don't listen to Ivankov. He talks out of his unitarded ass) am the chef and I take my position very seriously. I work hard to prepare nutritious and delicious food for my ship's crew. My job, my vocation really, leaves me with a deep sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.

For the most part, my life is great. I am on track to achieve my life's goal. I work with two of the most gorgeous creatures to ever grace the Four Blues and the crew are very appreciative of my food.

All of them, that is, except one ungrateful, fucking idiot. Z (he/himbo) is the absolute worst. He insults the beautiful Nami. All he does is sleep and work out (topless!) and sometimes he jumps into the sea to rescue our drowning captain.

And no matter how good I know my food is, all he can do is mumble "s'okay" when I ask him how it is. Okay?! I spent hours, HOURS, on his meal and what I get is "It's somewhat adequate. It will meet my nutrition requirements. I've had better."

I don't know how the razor blade thing started. We were arguing (usually it's Z's fault because he can't leave well enough alone) and either I threatened to put razor blades in his food or he dared me to. But does it really matter? In the end, the deed was done and the talking humandrill ate them with no problem.

As I suspected he would. The man drinks my cooking sherry like it's water. Cooking sherry! Can you believe it? Z has no palate. I might as well save my Nami-schwann's budget and feed him barnacles and kelp.

Before you answer my question, I want to make it clear that I made the razor blades as delectable as possible. I countered the sharp, metallic taste with a peanut based sauce. I'm not a total asshole (or even an asshole at all.)

diggingdug • 07/09/2002

YTA for sending in this fake ass letter. Do you seriously want us to believe you fed your co-worker razor blades and he was fine afterwards? Dude, come on! If you're going to post something fake, at least make it credible.

I'm going to pretend there are some kernels of truth hidden in here. One, it sounds like you care WAY too much about this guy's opinion. Like, why are you so obsessed with him? Why do you need his validation exactly? And tbh, if when someone keeps pestering me for compliments, I do the same thing. I don't feed the beast.

Two, job shaming is not cool. I worked as a lifeguard for a couple of summers. Sure, it looks like an easy job but it actually was a terrible combination of boring & stressful.

Three, if this Z is really drinking cooking sherry and you're not just being extra, then he has a problem. If you care about him at all, maybe tell him you're worried instead of writing phony letters here for kicks.

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