Were you being that adamant that you had to prove it to them? Seems a bit of a sad thing to prove. YDI and any bill that comes your way.

YDI for being a bully

Then I was about ten I hit a kid in the face with a snowball during an after school snowball fight. His glasses broke in like three places. His mom got really mad at me and told me that I was going to have to pay for them. That would have been in the neighborhood of six months of my 'allowance' at the time. I told her that he was throwing snowballs too and it was an accident. But since he was involved it wasn't my responsibility to replace them. They called my folks who backed my play. I later ended up wearing glasses and I can now see why she was so upset. I'd be pretty pissed if mine got broken. But if it was during a snowball fight that I was participating in, well, that's on me. Assumption of risk and personal responsibility have to start somewhere.

If they were exactly the same, he would've accepted it you wouldn't have to prove it!

Well.... That was dumb

I hope the next thing you did was buying him new glasses right away.

That was really not smart

Eye-popping.

Why did you need to prove it by doing that? The frames may look the same but not all of them have the springs. My last glasses didn't have them but look exactly the same as what I have now. Even so, why did you bend them hard enough to break them? YDI

Hindsight is 20/20 so one should not need glasses to see this was a bad idea