Is NOBODY wrong in the post ? POST : I was reminded of this situation from a post somewhere else  and even though it happened a long time ago I'm curious if IWTA or not.

I had just started college and was saving up to buy the ***perfect*** laptop for school. Everyone in my family knew how excited I was to make my first major electronics purchase, as we usually got hand me downs from family or friends, and I would be able to pick out exactly the laptop I wanted when everything went on sale on Boxing Day. When my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas that year, I asked for a particular (inexpensive) piece of jewellery (a necklace, cubic zirconia, like $50 MAX and I honestly would've been happy even if they had gotten me a totally different necklace even if it came from the dollar store) as a gift from the two of them to commemorate my finally attending post-secondary education (it took me a few years to go - it was a big deal for me). It was definitely not about the money at all, just the sentiment. 

Well Christmas came around, and I opened my gift from my parents…. It was a laptop. Nowhere near as powerful as what I had planned to buy, insanely heavy so very impractical to take around campus, just overall the exact opposite of what I wanted. When I asked my parents why they would get me this instead of what I asked for, especially when they knew how excited I was to make this purchase myself (and for the necklace honestly), they were furious with me for being so ungrateful about such an expensive gift... To their mind, they went above and beyond and got me a really generous present, but to mine it felt like they were robbing me of an experience I was really excited about.

To be completely fair, I should mention that I did end up having to use that laptop for the years I was in school. I opted to leave it at home and take written notes in class, and having to transcribe the notes to my computer did ultimately help me learn the material better so I did pretty well in school, certainly much better than I expected. So there was absolutely a silver lining, but I was still pretty bummed out at the time. Over a decade later and I'm still not sure who was really in the wrong, so I'm wondering, AITA?

