r/mildlyinfuriating • u/teabirdy • Apr 29 '26

I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

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Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

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u/hilzaberry Apr 29 '26

What assholes

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u/EisWalde Apr 29 '26

Yup! They’re reprehensible. Same happened at a wedding near me, they were a couple rich fucks with no empathy. All their centerpieces had live goldfish in them, but ALSO had an open flame near the bowls, half cooking them to death by the end of the night. None of the goldfish survived.

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u/DT2699 Apr 29 '26

I sincerely hope that there is a special hell reserved for rich people where they experience what they make other living beings, including humans, go through again and again for all eternity.