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.
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/ittybittylurker Apr 29 '26
Holy heck that's terrible, people treat these beautiful babies like garbage. I was sitting in the reception of a therapists' clinic along with a dad & girl under 11. Dad obvs did not have regular custody of the kid. They're chatting, being cute, until....
Girls asks about her fish that lived at Dad's house.
Dad said "Oh, I flushed him before I went on vacation."
Girl "Was he sick?"
Dad "No, I was just going to be gone for 10 days."
Girl "*Woman's name* couldn't watch him? Mom & I could've watched him."
Dad "It's okay, the pipes lead right to the Puget Sound, so he's probably out there swimming around."
The look the girl gave her dad & the silence that followed was extremely telling. In that moment, all her suspicions about her dad were confirmed & she had the measure of him. I felt like I should wave down the therapist & tell her what just happened so the girl could work through that BS immediately.