Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I live with my girlfriend and my brother. As we were all getting around, making our breakfast Sunday morning, my brother takes the coffee pot over to the sink to dump it because it is several days old. I'm not one to waste, and I don't mind drinking old coffee, so I say to him, "Hey don't dump that, I'll drink it."

When I said this to him, he was poised at the sink to dump it, but hadn't started yet. He looks me in the face, blankly, then starts to pour it out. So I say to him, just a little clearer in case he didn't hear me (unlikely), "Hey, don't dump that, I'll drink it."

He stops and again, looks up at me, but this time with a look kind of like, I heard you the first time, but I don't care. So this time I say it again, with annoyance clear in my voice, --"Don't dump that, I'll drink that."--

At this point my gf chimes in with, "We have no idea how old that is, it's probably disgusting." So then my brother looks at me with a mix of annoyance and shut-up-I-know-what-I'm-doing. He began to pour.

Now I really don't care how old the coffee is; I've brewed a pot on Monday, and finished it on Friday. As long as there's not mold in the grounds, I'm good. So I'm really okay with drinking this coffee. In fact, all of the static I'm getting over this coffee makes me want it just to prove a point.

Clearly irritated I say to my brother, somewhat shouting, "Are you retarded!? I said, 'don't dump that I'll drink it!'" With defiance abound he dumps the rest of the pot down the sink, all the while looking me in the eyes with a smug, take-that look.

So I began to berrate him, and clearly state my frustration as to why he dumped it, I was fine with drinking it, I didn't care how awful it may be, etcetera, etcetera. When my gf tells me to calm down, it's just old coffee.

TL;DR: My brother dumped out old coffee that I told him I wanted several times, so I wigged on him, and my girlfriend told me to relax it's not a big deal. Was I the asshole?