Man Throws Away a Slice of Cake at Birthday Party - Causing Argument With Friends: ‘No One’s Responding to Me'

A discarded slice of birthday cake has unexpectedly sparked outrage among a group of friends.

In a post on Reddit's "Am I the A------" forum, a 41-year-old man explained that a "weird" conflict escalated after he accepted a slice of coconut cake a woman named, Amy, 30, baked for the birthday boy's party.

"After the relevant party traditions of singing the birthday song, and the hip-hip-hooraying that happens after the birthday song here in Australia, I went back to talking to one of my friends when Amy came up to me and the other friend with 2 plates of cake and offered them to my friend and I," he wrote.

"We both said 'yes,' thanked her, and then she made a really odd face and walked away," he continued. "My friend and I both said it was weird, and went back to chatting. I ate some of the cake and it had desiccated coconut inside it, which I don't particularly like, so after a couple of bites, I ignored it and then chucked it out when the party ended about an hour or so later."

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The next morning, the man paid the price for trashing the coconut slice when he woke up to a series of angry texts from Amy’s partner, Steven, 30.

He was told that Amy had spent the entire night crying and complaining about not having had the opportunity to taste the cake that she baked.

Having only cut eight slices because she knew the man doesn't eat coconut, Amy felt that it was spiteful that he took a slice of cake just to later throw it away.

"I replied, 'Why did she even offer me any cake if she knew there was coconut inside?'" the man wrote.

"Steven said that she did it to be polite and not leave me out and that I was an a------ for taking her slice and throwing it away," he said.

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The man confessed to feeling uneasy after the heated exchange as other people who had attended the party were also giving him the cold shoulder.

“I forwarded the message to my other friends that were there, and most of them have left me on read so far, except one who responded with a thumbs down emoji, and another who hasn't seen it yet (as of this writing),” the man said. “The fact that no one's responding to me is making me worry that I might have been the a------ here.”

Redditors replied in the comment section saying it would have been rude for him to decline the cake.

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“What a bizarre situation. You cut enough cake for everyone there (including yourself), and don’t hand cake to people if you’re relying on them turning it down so you can eat it yourself. You did the right thing by accepting it, it would have been more rude to decline," one user wrote.

The man responded to the user’s comment saying, “I mean, she expected me to decline, so was there just no winning here?”

Another user responded, “Then she would have cried that you refused the cake. She sounds like a drama queen. If your friends think you are the AH here, they aren’t friends. You did nothing wrong. If she knows you don’t like coconut, then she should have told you it had coconut in it."

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