So my girlfriend's mom is one of those neurotic, paranoid panicky kind of people. Anytime there's something that she doesn't know or doesn't go exactly to plan it's because the worst possible thing happened to cause it. This includes if a door to outside is left even slightly ajar and she doesn't see her dog sitting at the doorway watching whoever is outside. Immediately a "OMG WHERE IS &lt;dog&gt;?! When's the last time anyone has seen her?!" echoes throughout the house and massive passive aggressive mode if we don't drop what we're doing to look and call for the dog. 9/10 she's sitting by the door to the backyard looking out through the screen door in the sun or sleeping under gf's mom's bed.   


Anyway, I was mowing the lawn, watering the flowers, sweeping the driveway as per her request (I have no problem doing this,it takes about 45 minutes if I stretch it out) and left the gate from the backyard to the front open as I brought the lawn mower, weed whacker, and the gas out. Unbeknownst to me her mom left her door to the backyard open for some reason, and when I'm bringing the gas back to the shed in the backyard she noticed that I didn't have to open the gate and immediately went into panic mode about the dog's whereabouts. But this time she also gave me an earful about being responsible/not being lazy, *this was all before she went inside to verify the dog was in fact missing*. But lo and behold we go inside and no sign of the pooch, so I actually start to get worried and feel kinda bad even though I don't know how I was supposed to know it would be outside. With a parting shot about maybe *someone paying attention* saw the dog walking down the street she leaves to go knock on the neighbors doors.

It's hot, I feel bad and pretty irritated so I go in the bathroom to splash some water on my face and think how long the gate was left unattended. While I wipe my face off I hear some scratches on what sounds like porcelain or ceramic and who's in the bathtub stretching like she maybe just woke up but the dog, who probably laid down to fall asleep cause the bathtub is cool. When I ask my gf if she used the bathroom last she told me that her mom had just put new towels in there maybe 10 minutes before she went outside to see the gate open. 

When her mom came back I offered to help look for another 15 minutes or so before I heroically found the dog safe and sound while making sure to ask while laughing, "Haha who was the last person in the bathroom?" My gf shot me a look and asked me afterwards if I put the dog in there, and confirmed no I didn't I found her but being blamed for losing the dog made me have no qualms about letting her mom stress out a bit more. She thought it was kinda funny getting tired of her moms nonsense but called me an asshole.  
So am I the asshole?  
