Woman refuses to let pregnant guest eat part of her birthday cake

A woman wondered if it was wrong to deny a pregnant woman a piece of her birthday cake.

In a post shared on Reddit's Am I the A**hole forum, one woman wrote that she celebrated her birthday with a barbecue alongside her three children and husband, as well as her best friend Matt, his pregnant girlfriend Jane and their three children. She explained that they had become close to the family since they lived two houses down.

While the men grilled up over $90 worth of hot dogs and hamburgers, of which both the original author and Matt contributed a surplus, the original author swam with the kids in his pond while Jane surfed on her phone.

However, around 5:30 p.m., the men called the children over to grab their plates and eat, but the original author wrote that she and her middle son, aged nine, were not hungry at the time, so they continued swimming. After spending more than 40 additional minutes in the pond, they finally got hungry around 6:15 p.m., when her husband went out to buy beer.

However, when they got to the grill, the woman said that Matt and Jane were gone, too, and so was the food.

“All the food was gone. Literally all of it,” she wrote. “I called my husband and asked where all the food was and he said it should be on the grill. I told him it was all gone. There was a long pause before I said, ‘Jane asked if she could take some for leftovers, but I didn’t think she would take it all. ’”

She then told him that before she left for the store 10 minutes earlier, there were at least eight burgers and 10 hot dogs left, plus macaroni salad. Perplexed, she told her husband to call his friend to see what had happened. According to Matt, Jane said she took “some” things that had already been eaten, but her oldest son, 13, said otherwise. The author of the original post wrote, “He saw Jane walk off our property taking the entire plate (one of those extra-large foil BBQ plates).”

“I’m angry right now,” she continued. “My son and I hadn’t eaten anything.”

Her husband, though also angry, bought them some food at the store rather than confront Matt about the situation since they work together. However, things come to a head anyway when, 45 minutes later, Jane and her three children showed up at their house asking if they could have some of the original author's birthday cake.

“I tell Jane that her kids can, but she can’t,” she wrote. “She asks me why and I reply, ‘I’m pretty sure you’ve eaten quite a bit, considering you made off with my entire barbecue dinner before my son and I could eat anything.’”

Jane defended herself by saying that the original author's husband had not only told her she could keep it, but that she had a right to do so because “half of it was his.” She added that she didn't know they hadn't eaten, despite having been standing by the grill the whole time and probably not having seen them eat.

“I shrugged and walked away,” the original author concluded. “She tells her kids to go away and they leave without a cake.”

In the comments section, people wrote that Jane was being rude not only by taking all the food, but also by leaving without saying goodbye to the hostess and then returning as if nothing had happened.

“Who leaves a barbecue without saying goodbye to the hostess?” one person wrote. “There were only two families. That’s rude in itself.”

“Who leaves a party with all the leftovers and then has the nerve to come back for more?” another person commented.

“If the party is still going on, there are still no remains, just food,” added another. “Why would he leave and then come back? That’s very strange.”