Entitled Hiker Refuses to Move From Picturesque Spot For Couple's Proposal

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Sep 14, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Marriage proposals can be a tricky thing to plan. There's always a little risk involved, especially if you're doing it in public. You never know if there will be some clueless person in the background of your photos or if the fire alarm will go off in the restaurant. You can't ensure a moment will be perfect, but you can be comfortable knowing that most people won't intentionally ruin your moment. Nobody will scream FIRE in a crowded theater because they see a guy getting down on one knee in the audience after the show. Well, almost nobody will. 

One entitled hiker is getting roasted on Reddit for sharing their story of ruining a couple's proposal. They decided to plop down on a particularly beautiful spot on the trail to enjoy a large meal by themselves (they claim this is their hobby). When a photographer asked them to move because a guy was planning on proposing to his girlfriend at that spot, they refused just for the sake of it. 

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    Font - r/AmltheAs u/No_Resolution_4132. 13h 1 1 2 4 1 AITA for not moving from a spot someone wanted to propose on?
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    Font - One of my hobbies is to go hiking and eat a very large meal while sitting down. Basically a picnic for myself. I bring a blanket and anything else I might need for an hour-long experience.
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    Font - This past Monday I was up at a new area I'd never been to. I brought my large meal with me and set up on a very gorgeous area with a great view of the lake. I was about 5 minutes into my ritual when this guy with a camera comes and tells me that a couple was coming up to do a proposal on this very spot and asked me to move.
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    Font - I told him no that I barely got set up and I was in the middle of my meal. He gets annoyed and just asks again but I tell him now. A few minutes later the photographer returns with the guy who was going to propose. The guy proposing asks me this time and I just tell him no, that he can wait. He asks me w is wrong with me and I just tell him that I am eating my meal. He starts telling at me to gtfo but I put on my headphones and just continue eating. After a while he leaves me alone.
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    Font - After I felt satisfied from the meal I packed up and was heading down. The three were waiting at another spot and the men point me out and the lady starts yelling at me that I ruined her day and that the proposal happened elsewhere instead of the spot I was in. I just smiled and said congrats on your proposal and kept walking.
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    Human body - When I got back home this came up and I told my boyfriend about it. He straight up said it was an as thing to do.
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    Font - Nanny Deely 13h YTA ● 3 Awards I was urging towards NTA in that it's public spade and usable by everyone, and you were there first. But the tone of the way you're explaining it "once I felt satisfied" tells me you felt this as some kind of power play and you were likely utilising a highly desirable spot just for you, and you knew that, so I think that makes you equally if not more selfish than someone asking to clear the spot for what is likely going to be a short photoshoot (when compare
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    Font - TammySwift 12h ● Did you miss the part where the guy was telling him gtfo. I wouldn't move either and take my time too if someone spoke to me like that ... ↑ 4.1k
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    Rectangle - Nanny Deely. 12h 2 Awards I didn't miss it, no. But note how it came a long time after the initial - likely polite - request to move to allow others to use the desirable spot. Like other people have alluded to, hiking etiquette is to share and collectively enjoy views. Setting up a whole picnic for yourself at a notable viewpoint for "a large meal" is ridiculous and selfish. ... 11.3k
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    Font - murphy 2345678. 12h Supreme Court Just- 21 I agree. The whole tone of this post says selfish and entitled. YTA OP. Your own BF says you're an AH. Jealous that they haven't proposed yet? 47k
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    Font - decadecency. 9h Enthusiast [9] f I'm going with YTA too. This is one of those cases where you're technically not obliged to move, but why tf not when there's a special event going to take place?? I'd move and then excitedly and discretely spy on them to see how it goes haha ... 43.2k
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    Font - Naked Wanderer12 · 7h You would have to be capable of being happy for others to "excitedly and discreetly spy" to see how it goes and the tone from OP doesn't make it sound like they're capable of that. G 4 1.6k
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    Font - foldinthecheese99 - 10h Also who eats a large meal while hiking? ↑ 939 ...
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    Font - DodgerGreen89 - 10h No, it's a hobby, and it's called "eat a very large meal while sitting down." So not hiking. Just eating a very large meal while sitting down. And it's a hobby. Very common hobby, now that I think about it. I suppose it's even a hobby of mine that I didn't even know I had, but I do it 5 or 6 times a month. Guess I need to go stake out some popular waterfalls with my new hobby. ... G 4 1.1k
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    Font - John Grady Birdie. 12h YTA. Good hikers share views and make space for people if it's not a major disruption. You could have made a small exception this once for a special occasion but you refused because of a pretty silly and selfish principle. ... Reply 14.5k
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    Font - M JubsJam 12h ● I agree. OP is TA So selfish and couldn't share the space for this special moment for another person. If it were me, I'd say something like "wow great! Im so excited for you guys. Good luck!" And move but OP hogs the space just for their hobby that can be done anywhere and any time. 2.9k
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    Font - MildFunctionality. 11h Also, I'm sorry, but "eating a large meal" is not a "hobby," regardless of where you do it and whether you're sitting or standing. "One of my hobbies is to go hiking and eat a very large meal while sitting down" is such a weird sentence. ... 3.8k
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    Font - Thanatofobia • 12h Partassipant [4] 2 Awards ESH They had no right to demand that you move. But it wouldn't have killed you to move. The way you wrote it, it sounds like you where being petty about it. Reply 8.9k
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    Font - Fresh Preparation405. 12h Yep. Op was being petty about it and is not so subtly trying to brag. They came and posted this hoping they would get applauded because Reddit hates anything that could be perceived as married people entitlement. ... 2.2k
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    Font - Plus_Data_1099 - 12h Your not very nice are you Reply 2.7k
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    Rectangle - toomany_geese ● 11h YTA. I hike regularly, and anybody who smugly takes up a large amount of space at a viewpoint (for an hour!) is an AH, not sorry. Basic hiking etiquette. Reply 2.1k ...
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