A birthday turned sour over a cake flavor.
A woman shared her birthday cake feud on the popular Reddit forum, “Am I the A——,” on Sunday, April 27.
The Redditor asked her boyfriend to get a carrot cake for her birthday as it is one of the only flavors she likes. Right away, her boyfriend was hesitant about the dessert choice and suggested that she choose a flavor “that people like,” but the user explained that the party would just consist of her friends and that they like carrot cake, too.
On the day of her birthday party, her boyfriend got the cake from the bakery and didn’t mention anything about it to the poster. She didn’t see the cake until her loved ones were singing “Happy Birthday” and her boyfriend brought out a chocolate cake “to [her] horror.”
“I hate chocolate cake. It makes me sick. He KNOWS I hate chocolate cake,” she writes. The user “refused” to try the cake but didn’t say anything to her boyfriend at the party.
Later that night, when the couple was home, he asked her, “Why do you have to act like a child all the time?”
“He went on about how nobody likes carrot cake and how im spoiled and selfish and looked stupid not eating cake at my own birthday,” she says, recalling that he claimed that the bakery didn’t have carrot cake but she thought that was a lie. “Even if there wasnt any he coulda picked ANY other flavour, besides the only one I hate.”
She concluded the post by saying that he put a lot of effort into organizing the birthday party and that neither person has apologized since they fought. In the days following the argument, the Redditor says she thinks she overreacted. “I probably shoulda just eaten it,” she writes.
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The viral post garnered thousands of comments on whether the OP (original poster) was in the wrong. Many agreed that she was NTA (not the a——) — which is part of the Reddit group’s acronyms.
One person commented, “This is not a good partner. I mean on the most basic level everyone knows that a bday party is for that person, and you get a dessert that person likes… like seriously, again, EVERYONE knows that.”
Another person remarked that the event might be indicative of bigger problems in the relationship. “Is cake on its face a small thing? Yes. But we are talking about his behavior here, not the cake. Take the cake out of the equation and address his actions, which, on that day, were less than honorable. IMHO you should take a look at other aspects of your relationship, and see if his behavior on your birthday was an odd one-off or part of a pattern, and go from there,” the user wrote.
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