When you’re close to the legal drinking age where you live, the drinking age can seem somewhat arbitrary.

For example, someone who is a month older than their friend can drink legally earlier than their friend.

Imagine being a few months older than your friends and able to legally buy beer when they can’t. Would you agree to buy beer for them, or would you refuse?

In this story, one young man is in that situation, and he agrees. But there’s a twist because quickly finds out they weren’t telling him the full truth.

Keep reading for all the details.

AITA for taking back the beer I bought for a party from which I was uninvited?

This happened just a few hours ago. I am a 19 year old man and the people calling me a jerk are 18 year old men and women.

On Thursday, a person I had a major crush on in high school (but who rejected me) messaged me out of the blue.

She had never contacted me without my contacting her first, and at one point I realized she had had me blocked on social media, and so I found it odd that she was suddenly being friendly.

She wanted a big favor.

After sending a couple of greetings/questions about how I’ve been, she said that she was going to have some people over and wanted to know if I would get the beer.

The drinking age where we are is 19, and she and the people who were going to chill were all 18.

The liquor stores in my area all card.

I thought it was silly that my being a month older meant I could buy liquor and they couldn’t, and so I said I would love to go.

She said “thanks, I’ll pick you up at seven!”

She arrived right on time, and he was ready to go.

7 o’clock rolled around, and she texted me to say she was in front of my house.

I went out dressed and ready to chill with some people, and she drove me to the liquor store.

When we got there, I asked what beer she wanted me to get, and she told me to get Budweiser.

I hid my disappointment as well as I could, but it was her party so I went in and bought two cases of 24.

He quickly realized she was using him.

I got back in the car and said “let’s party,” and she was eerily quiet.

I noticed that she wasn’t driving towards her neighborhood, but rather back towards mine. I thought she had moved or something, but didn’t want to press the issue.

When she turned down my street I finally figured it out.

She was being purposefully vague about the invitation because she wanted me to get the beer, but she wanted a way out when she told me I wasn’t actually invited in the first place.

It is HIS beer, after all.

She stopped in front of my house, leaned over, kissed me on the cheek, and said “thanks!” in her best voice.

I deadpanned her and asked when she was going to tell me I wasn’t invited.

She feigned surprise and said that she never intended to invite me in the first place.

I sat in silence for a long awkward minute, picked up the beer, and walked towards my front door.

He refused to change his mind.

She got out of her car and frantically tried to reinvite me to the party.

But I told her that what she did was the most humiliating thing that ever happened to me. I opened my front door, slammed it a bit too hard, and came back to my room.

Now I’m sitting here drinking absolutely unpalatable bad water, and I have text messages from all of her friends and her asking me why I’m being such a jerk.

I don’t think I’m the jerk for reacting the way I did, but if you haven’t figured it out I’m not amazing socially so I’m not sure. Am I here?

He’s not a jerk, she is. She used him, and he didn’t let her get away with it.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

Here’s a suggestion on how to use up the beer.

Or, he could have his own party.

This person suggests just chugging the beer.

But really, he never should’ve agreed to break the law for her in the first place.

Her trick didn’t work.

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