'Now you know your husband is illiterate': Careless husband almost poisons wife with special holiday coffee

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Dec 20, 2023 5:00 PM EST

Making coffee at home is a fun hobby for many. I love using my Moka pot to make my fun little morning beverages. It adds an extra dash of excitement to my day, and it's a nice daily ritual. Coffee is a huge part of many of our routines. I used to work at a coffee shop and the exactness and precision with which people would order their morning cups would astonish me. If their order wasn't exactly right, it could throw off their whole day. An extra hot americano with an extra shot and a teaspoon of oat milk foam, coming up. Hey, I don't judge. 

So when your beverage ritual gets compromised, you might naturally get a little angry. So imagine almost getting poisoned by it. What started out as a nice gesture between husband and wife quickly became grounds for divorce in this recent Reddit post. 

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    r/AmltheAsshole u/sadbeanwithdreams • 1d · Partassipant [1] AITA for freaking out at my husband's "thoughtful gift?" Not the
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    Yesterday was my birthday. My husband was getting on my case lately about buying too many peppermint mocha lattes from Starbucks. For two days before my birthday, he is hyping up this gift he will give me first thing in the morning. So he surprised me with a homemade peppermint mocha latte that he made.
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    He says he isn't the ahole because how could he know a shopkeeper would lie... AITA for blowing up and telling him Im so disappointed?
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    The twist is he made it with essential oils that some random lady at a health food sure assured him is okay. I have a panic attack after he tells me he fed me essential oils. I felt enraged and hated when I look on the essential oil bottle and it clearly states it is for use in a humidifier. He didn't even read the bottle before deciding to make me this "sweet gesture" with it. I have never been interested in essential oils so he has no reason to think I'd want to ingest this.
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    Update: Poison control said I'll be fine and it's probably the panic attack that effed my stomach up. He bought the food safe peppermint so he can redo the drink safely now. Husband understands I'm not an essential oil gal and won't be giving me anymore ever.
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    [deleted] . 1d ΝΤΑ Are you okay? As in, not sick? I can't even process the idea of thinking an essential oil is the way to flavour coffee. It would have taken him minutes to either find the hard candycane style stirrers for coffee (or a candycane itself slowly dissolved in the coffee) or the syrups used in coffee shops. I can't compute that being his big surprise idea at all. I expected you to say a fancy coffee maker or something to diy your coffees. Not one poisoned drink. I'm sorry it ruined
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    sadbeanwithdreams OP. 1d Partassipant [1] My stomach hurt really bad the next day (today) but I'm okay. He fed his sister one of these coffees too, two days ago and she's okay.
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    [deleted] •. 1d Wait.. he did it TWICE? oh my, that's worse. I'm glad his sister is okay but that could have gone so, so differently. Does he realise how dangerous this situation could have been?! I hope he's extremely apologetic at the very, very least. I also wonder if he really did ask for advice from a store employee because surely, there could be some serious legal implications for them advising that a product is safe for human consumption when it clearly isn't? I'd be telling your husband
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    NTA. UnhappyTemperature18 23h Enthusiast [9] Dear OP's Husband, Had you thought for a single second, or googled, you'd've found that you can buy peppermint syrup. Non-food-grade essential oils are toxic in large quantities. Get over yourself, and stop accidentally poisoning your wife. I Ho Ho Holy --basically all of reddit
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    sadbeanwithdreams OP 23h Partassipant [1] This is the most unattractive part. Why do people think they're too good to Google stuff? ●
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    lunchbox3 23h Also like.... That's kind of a gift to be hyping up even if it wasn't poison? (Sentences I didn't expect to say...) Because you are presumably very happy buying your drink from Starbucks? His one won't be better and it won't be fixing a problem for you, just for him. It might have been a cute idea to go get you one first thing / make one if you don't live close. But as a hyped up gift that's weak...
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    Queen_Sized_Beauty • 1d Aficionado [11] NTA, he literally poisoned you, then got mad when you weren't grateful. Also, his present to you, for your birthday, was a single coffee? Girl.
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    Internal_Progress404. 1d Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] He didn't have to question the shopkeeper; those oils wouldn't have been in yhe food aisle, which should make him think they aren't food. It's not hard. NTA.
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    sadbeanwithdreams OP 1d Partassipant [1] He claims the oils were next to the vanilla extract. 374 quill3216. 1d He's lying. ● Aficionado [13] I think so too. ... ... sadbeanwithdreams OP • 1d Partassipant [1] 886
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    Unhappy-Prune-9914 - 1d NTA - Whoa! Technically essential oils aren't even safe for use on top of the skin. I think it's worth calling poison control or following up with a doctor. Essential oils are different than flavors used for foods and ingestion. I would be livid.
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    YouthNAsia63 • 1d Judge, Jury, and Excretioner [398] Welll now you know your husband is illiterate, (can't read the "not safe for human consumption" warning clearly written on the bottle), and cheap. Because he thinks you spend too much money at Starbucks. You can forgive him for being "thrifty", cause Starbucks is absurdly expensive, but, damn, he didn't think to get peppermint flavoring from the spice aisle at the grocery store? I think that's what most people would think of! Or peppermint sch
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    KiriYogi. 1d So he bashed on the Starbucks to make it an issue, then fed you posion because he didn't bother to read the bottle. NTA- you may wish to have a very adult conversation soon. While Starbucks is expensive, it's childish to bash it just so he can suprise you with something "better". Makes one wonder how much weaponized incompetence is being used against you.
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    Primary-Friend-7615 • 22h Am I reading this right??? Your oh-so-special birthday surprise was a single drink, and that drink was literally poisoned??? Honey. Honey, no. You are NTA for being displeased with the gift of a single poisoned drink. No matter how much you have yelled or cried, or whatever he is trying to DARVO into being the "real problem". Your husband is either incredibly stupid, incredibly malicious, or incredibly careless (or all three), and deserves every iota of blame you are th
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    SnooChickens9234 • 23h NTA but if your husband isn't apologetic for POISONING YOU it might be time to get a new one Reply 113 ... sadbeanwithdreams OP 23h ● Partassipant [1] This hurt the most. His pride and arrogance put me in harms way.
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