So my GF and I went to Long Beach, CA last year, and I booked room B340 at the Queen Mary hotel which is supposedly haunted. I didn’t tell her this, and when we got to the room, it had a bunch of memorabilia talking about the alleged haunting. She freaked out and got mad that I did that and she wanted a different room, so we switched (which sucked because that specific room was booked on a higher, non-refundable rate).

Anyway, a few days ago, I was watching the movie 1408 starring John Cusack with a friend, and my gf got a glimpse of it. It’s a movie about a haunted hotel room. This reminded her about what I did last year, and she got all riled up again. I guess she’s superstitious? So AITA for not telling her about this room?

So, was the poster an a-hole?

The original post is about 3 months old and now archived, but at its peak, it had a couple of dozen replies (You can read them here. Heads up that some of the replies may have adult language) . For the most part, the writer was determined to be an a-hole. However their level of a-holeness appeared to vary from commenter to commenter.

Replies seemed to go into one of a few camps:

• You Are The A-Hole – you should have told her ahead of time and this was a major thing; they could have saved her a lot of negative feelings.
• Mild (or Light) You Are The A-Hole – it kind of feels worth mentioning because some people are more spiritual/religious/superstitious than others and it would have been nice if they had told the girlfriend about it ahead of time, just in case

I tried to relate to this situation but it was difficult for me, simply because of the relationship Joe and I have.

First, Joe has some beliefs in the paranormal, but I don’t. Yet he’s the one who tends to make most of our hotel reservations, simply because he’s the one with the knowledge of our points and miles situation – that’s just not my things. So he could tell me our hotel (or hotel room) was haunted, and I wouldn’t care less ;-). He’s also the one who likes ghost tours and visiting haunted locations…which I just don’t get.

On top of that, we’ve already stayed in hotels where we didn’t learn they were haunted until after the fact. Joe didn’t seem any worse for wear,. And frankly, I still didn’t care. 😉

But back to the writer and the girlfriend – what do you say? Were they the A-hole and should they have said something to her?

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