You’ve seen those giant subs that are like, longer than a full-grown human being, right? Well, did you know that people actually order them in real life? And then – apparently – measure them and divide by the number of people at their party (at least in their head)?
The subs are obviously made to share, and not necessarily equally (unless you hand out tape measures with the paper plates), but the hostess of this party really lost her mind when the sandwich was all gone.
The more the merrier? I guess not in this case – and honestly, after I got down to the details, I found things weren’t actually that cut and dried.
OP (Original Poster) prefaced the entire story by admitting he’s overweight and has a bit of a food addiction. No one really bothers him about it and he’s not ready to do anything himself, so life is pretty much good for him and his friend group.
Here’s the story…
AITA because I ate more than “my share” of a 6 foot party sub last night?
What I thought would be a total non issue has ballooned into a huge problem and I’m up at 7:05 AM dealing with it. I figured while I wait for a text, I could post here to see if what I did was really that bad.
I’m a big fat ass, there’s no way around it. I love to eat which probably borders on addiction but I figure since I’m only hurting myself it’s probably better to just live my life. I have some great friends although there is no doubt I’m the “harmless, funny token fat guy” of the otherwise pretty good looking group. I guess that sets the stage enough.
Last night my friend hosted UFC and I was invited. He got a 6 foot party sub. I also brought homemade wings that are sort of my specialty. Well of course people flocked to the food and I had basically one serving of the sandwich but people devoured my wings and I didn’t get to have a single one. Which is totally fine that’s why I brought them but maybe an hour later I was starving. I kept eyeing the sandwich and I’d say there was about 3 feet of it left. I waited an hour, then another half hour and no one had touched it (but they were still munching on chips, pretzels and what not). So I was like screw it…I took about half of what was left and ate it. Then the last half sat for another 10-15 minutes and no one said anything so ate the rest.
Well to be sure as I was swallowing the last bite the host’s girlfriend asked where the sandwich was. Like I was the guilty party pretty much everyone pointed at me. I guess they’d noticed me eating the sandwich. She was furious and said that I was an incredible pig and that I had been super selfish to eat 3 feet of a sandwich. I felt so bad I tried to explain to her that I really did wait over an hour and thought people had lost interest. I also tried to explain how everyone had ate my wings and she said something along the lines of “you brought them to share Alan, if someone had eaten over half by themselves that’s not fucking sharing is it?”
I offered to order pizza or even go get subways and she said that it was a pathetic offer because the party sub had been from a local shop owned by her friends. I said I was sorry but the night was so tense from then on out.
I woke up this morning to several texts from my twin sisters (the host’s girlfriend’s best friends) saying that I had to get my shit under control and that everyone is really mad at me and that I embarrassed myself last night. I tried to explain to them what my mindset had been and they haven’t responded.
Was I the a**hole for eating that much of the sandwich last night?
The commenters on this one were way out of line in some ways, and opinions were definitely strong.
Plenty of people mused that this was likely the straw that broke the camel’s back and not the first instance of this type of behavior.
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Others pointed out that the wings he brought can’t exactly be compared to a full 6-foot sub.
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A few people did point out that “fixing” him really isn’t anyone else’s job, and his offering to replace the food should have been allowed/good enough.
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There was some concern about his well-being from people who have been there, which was nice to see.
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In the end, most people agreed in the end that, excuses considered, OP was the a$shole this time.
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What do you think? I’m confused on this one, I think because they were still snotty after he offered to buy more food.
But it’s definitely not something most people would do at a party.
Drop your own thoughts in the comments!
