r/amithejerk· brasstacks_barb@brasstacks_barb

AITJ for telling someone else's grandkids to get out of the apple trees at the orchard?

Took my two youngest grandchildren apple picking on Sunday. U-pick orchard, lovely cool morning, and a sign at the end of every row asking people not to climb the trees because the branches snap and next year's fruit goes with them. Two boys, maybe eight and ten, were halfway up a Cortland shaking branches so the apples rained down on the path. Their grandmother was on a bench about thirty feet off, on her phone. After the third apple nearly landed on my granddaughter, I walked over and said, in my classroom voice but not my worst one, "Boys, down please, the trees aren't for climbing." They came down immediately. The grandmother did not come down at all. She marched over and told me I had no business speaking to her grandchildren when she was right there. I said she was thirty feet away and they were twelve feet up. My grandkids watched the whole exchange, which is the part I keep chewing on. Am I the jerk?