Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : This is came out longer than expected, sorry for that. There's a TL;DR at the end.



I'm 22, studying on uni, and I sometimes make use of a lasercutter in my mom's store to make some extra money.



A friend of mine commissioned me a lasercut clock with a special shape. I designed the model, cut it, paint it, adapted the clock hands, and decorated it with vinyl wrap. Because I didn't spend much and I know this guy I decided to charge 15 bucks for it.



He was in town only for the night I was delivering the model, and we decided to meet at 8:00pm on my mom's store. Anyways I wanted to go to the movies with my girlfriend and the movie theater we wanted to go to was about an hour away. It wasn't doable for the movie if I went out after 8.



There's this woman who works on my mom's store. She's around 31 and I've known her for at least 8 years, let's call her Karen. She said she had to fix some paperwork and she would go out at 7:30.



I ask Karen if she could hand my friend the clock at 7:30 and she was okay with it, so I texted my friend and asked if he could make it for 7:20pm and he said no problem.



Happy with my genius-level of arrangements I drive away into the sunset to pick up my girlfriend and go and watch our movie. 



Then suddenly as I'm waiting for my girlfriend to come out of her house Karen texts me with a question: "How much did you agree to charge for the clock?", I thought she just wanted to be sure so I answered $15.

She then joked that the guy gave her $20 and she was texting me to tell me that she's keeping $5 haha... eh.. was it a joke? Yeah it had to be, right?



Here comes the AITA part



I go pick up my money next day and she just hands me $15 and I feel some relief and say:



"So you were joking, huh? About the other $5"



She then told "Oh! You want them too!?" in a sarcastic tone and then proceeded to take them out of her pocket and put them in my hand.

She told me that she had plenty of those and that she didn't need my money but that I shouldn't expect any favours from her in the future.



I was gobsmacked, I didn't know if she was playing or not. I remained calm and said we could leave the money there and she could later ask my mom and whatever she told her she would do. I knew my mom would know that it was my money. But she said she had already told my mom about "the tip" she received.



I was actually getting angry, I was charging $15 for my work and she wanted $5 just for being there after we agreed there wasn't any payment for her favour. 



I swear I tried to discuss the situation, she just said in a really sarcastic voice that I could take it and leave. So I just did that.



I would have given her the 5 bucks if she told me she needed them or something or we could have split them, but she decided to keep them and just hand me $15. I felt I was rewarding her pettiness if I didn't take the money.



Later that night I mention the situation to my dad and he said that I fucked up and that I should have left her the money and that my mom would have given the $5 to me. Then when my mom got into the conversation she also said that I screwed up and that Karen was a very valuable employee that was doing me a favour.



I met up with my friend a week later or so and he said that the money wasn't a tip of any kind.



AITA for taking the money?



TL;DR: Ask a friend for a favour and she decided to keep extra money I got paid. I took it from her and my parents said I was in the wrong.

