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AITA for not sharing my New York cheesecake that I brought home from my NYC vacation?

Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole

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I just got back from a 5 day vacation in NYC. Before boarding the plane I stopped by a popular New York cheesecake shop to get 3 of their 8 inch cheescakes. We took a cab ride to the airport but my flight got cancelled due to weather so it messed up my plans to get an Uber to drive me the rest of the 3 hour way home. I found my self lugging 3 cheesecakes with me back to the cab line. It started to rain and the cab line was literally out of this world. I had to wait several more hours for my flight but this time I am stuck lugging around my cheesecakes and 2 bags. I had to set the cheesecakes up on a chair to help me feel more comfortable so I could set my 2 pieces of luggage on the ground and take a nap while I waited. I had 5 hour wait ahead of me so the man next to me noticed how stressed I look so he offered a jacket to put under my head to make myself more comfortable. I was super thankful and we started to make conversation.<br><br>I told him how my plans were ruined by the flight delay, how I had to drag my cheesecakes through the airport just to stand in an extremely long line for cabs all while I'm drenched in rain. He said that he loved New York cheesecake but hasn't had any in a long time. I told him it's a shame that he's an hour or less away from the New York cheesecake shop but there isn't any around where we were. Then he goes "are you carrying a cheesecake with you?" So I lift my cheesecakes up to show him and he said "wow, I wish I could have a slice of that" I just smiled and told him that this is for my man and my son and it's just enough to go around. He goes "I'll buy one from you" And I said "I'm not selling and second of all these are too big to take on a plane" He agreed and said he wished he could take some back home to try some. Then he said "they say it's not real New York cheesecake unless it's from New York" I agreed. He just smiled and said "I'll buy the other two from you" I told him no because these are for my man and the other is for my child. So he reached in his pocket and he had a wad of cash in his hands and started counting out money. I was surprised that the man had so much cash on hand but he offered me $500 for the two. I just laughed and told him not for all the money in the world so he offered $700 and I refused again. So he offered me $1000 cash to take the two cheesecakes from me. I've never been in a position where someone tried to buy something from me for a grand so it made me feel like the cheesecakes were worth a lot more than the $70 I payed for them so I said no even harder.<br><br>He asked why not and I said because these are gifts for my family and there's no price tag on gifts. He asked if I would consider just giving him a slice of one and I said "sorry buddy I am, but I am not giving anyone cheesecake. I drug these cheesecakes all over the airport and stood in this filthy, wet, slippery line for hours just to take this cheesecake to my family. I'm not cutting into this for anyone" He just laughed and said "you're a tough cookie aren't you" I just smiled and said "you have no idea" I felt like I got my point across and he was just joking around at this point.<br><br>After a while he had to go outside and take a phone call. When he came back he had two slices of cheesecake on a plate in his hand. I looked at him and asked if he was joking? He said that he went to the airport restaurant across the hall and they sold him two slices of their cheesecake. I just rolled my eyes and thought to myself "yeah right, airport cheesecake? From McDonald's" I said to him "that's not real New York cheesecake unless it's from New York" He laughed and said he knows but it'll do. I just told him to enjoy his airport cheesecake and he did.<br><br>He had some really bad gas from it and complained about how he had stomach pain and ate something bad. I just laughed and said to him "there goes the proof that it's not real New York cheesecake unless it's from New York" He just laughed and said that this airport cheesecake made him feel like a real asshole. By the time we got to the front of the line I was so thankful just to get in the cab and get home. I said goodbye to the man and wished him safe travels and he did the same.<br><br>When I got home my man and child were thankful for the cheesecake and each said it was the best they ever had. It was only 4 days ago when I got back and they just ate the last piece. The entire time they were eating they were bragging about the cheesecake and how it's the best they ever had. I just smiled and enjoyed the cheesecake with them. The entire time I was thinking to myself "I'll never take this man for granted" whenever they complimented the cheesecake. Never once did it cross my mind that I drug these cheesecakes around to give them to them or that I waited in the cab line for hours all while I was drenched in rain and had to be mistreated and offered a grand for them. My man and child love cheesecake and that's all that mattered.<br><br>So this morning I was reading the conversation about the airplane cheesecake and I told my man and child what happened and they both said that I should have took the $1000 and just given him the cheesecake. I asked my child why not just give him a slice and my son said that if I gave him a slice than that would just give him an excuse to try to buy more. My child lived up to his nickname I gave him of being a little asshole for saying that.<br><br>My man just said that I should have took the money because $1000 is way more than $210 for 3 cheesecakes and I could have bought him 14 cheesecakes. I made the point that it wouldn't be from New York but my man said it's still cheesecake and he's not picky so he would have still enjoyed them. So now I'm wondering if I'm TA for not taking the $1000 and buying him 14 cheesecakes.

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