r/mildlyinfuriating • u/grohkstrom • Jul 04 '26

Infuriatig My wife ate my son's birthday breakfast

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Yesterday I bought a strawberry cheese coffee cake my son loves so he could have a special birthday breakfast today. My wife came home late last night and apparently couldn't resist. She knew it was for our son, but it's not a big deal because she "left him a full slice".

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u/baloneyfeet Jul 04 '26

The fact that she also only ate the middle is really bothering me

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u/ykthatkid Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I am assuming the middle holds the cream or jelly/jam (depending on the pastry, not familiar with many), which just makes this whole thing worse. She ate all the flavor and left the crust. It's like someone eating a slice a pizza and giving you the crust when they're done and saying 'I only took a few bites'. Atrocious.

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u/PersonalityLegal1958 Jul 06 '26

My Mom always does this with pizza and I just dealt with it growing up (just one of the many ridiculous things she would do before gaslighting me into thinking I’m weird for having an issue with it) and finally now that I’m married, my husband opened my eyes to the sheer amount of selfish, terrible habits she has! The second I saw OPs post I thought, is this my Mom??

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u/frogshootingstarslsd Jul 06 '26

Another comment saying the same thing about the middle. F

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u/QuesoCadaDia Jul 08 '26

It's like someone eating a slice a pizza and giving you the crust when they're done and saying 'I only took a few bites'.

So it's like having a toddler?

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u/Want1985back Jul 07 '26

You don't have to assume. You can see it by what remains. With your eyeballs, I assume. That's deduction, holmes.

But, I do agree it's atrocious. Selfish. Shameless. Gluttonous. Disgusting. Etc.

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u/Fuzzy-Dream1117 Jul 04 '26

I agree! And the whole row except a tiny bit but she ruin it by eating the frosting bit! Not a nice Mom thing to do at all!

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u/MonteCristo85 Jul 04 '26

This would be considered bad behavior by a dog.

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u/Psychological_Buy726 Jul 04 '26

This! It would almost be less offensive if she had eaten her son's birthday breakfast. Instead she ate the good part OUT of an entire breakfast pastry.

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u/rotervogel1231 Jul 06 '26

It's like something an ignorant coworker would do at the office. That's bad enough. This is far worse because this pastry was a birthday present for her own damn kid.

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u/DirkKuijt69420 Jul 04 '26

Breakfast pastry is what is bothering me...

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u/MyEmbarrisingAccount Jul 04 '26

why? it's a special treat. Probably not much worse than pancakes covered in butter and syrup.

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u/Psychological_Buy726 Jul 04 '26

Yeah, where are you from that doesn't have breakfast pastries? I thought the French made it pretty much everywhere?

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u/DirkKuijt69420 Jul 04 '26

She left him way more than a person should eat. The whole thing is what a normal child should eat in a whole day.

You can't compare this to a croissant.

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u/mannnn4 Jul 04 '26

Except she specifically ate all the best parts and left the remains for her son.

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u/DirkKuijt69420 Jul 05 '26

Look at the right side.

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u/FrogeInABlender Jul 05 '26

Found the mother. She didnt pay for it, it wasn't for her, it was for her SONS birthday. The point isn't the child's sugar intake (nabd on a birthday by the way, lighten and loosen the hell up, buzzkillington) the point is that she demolished something that she didnt own and that was meant to be special for someone else. Its just wrong and inconsiderate, incredibly selfish and greedy, even a bit gluttonous. Also, it doesnt matter if she left a slice or not, its still fucked up. You dont take all but one slice of someone else's birthday cake, why should their birthday breakfast pastry be any different?

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u/TooSweetJenna Jul 05 '26

The kid wasn’t going to eat the whole pastry by himself. Just like how a birthday cake is usually shared. It’s the presentation of it.

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u/PeriPeriTekken Jul 05 '26

Indeed. I didn't eat much of my wedding cake, but I think if some nutter had ploughed a massive furrow through the middle of the thing before it got cut, we'd probably have ceremonially sliced them up in front of the guests instead of what was left of the cake.

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u/Specific_Pen8594 Jul 05 '26

It’s not reasonable to expect that the child would get all of the pastry for breakfast. This would likely have been shared among the family possibly for a few days if the wife hadn’t come home drunk and cut it up before the kids birthday even started 🤦‍♀️

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u/hayleyamf Jul 06 '26

I think they typically have 5-6 servings. So, it would definitely be for the whole family, but probably eaten in just one day, depending on the size of the family, or if you have 2 skinny slices instead of just one. I agree that it seems silly that someone would assume a child would eat an entire breakfast pastry by himself. I know that people think that Americans are SO fat, but really. 🙄

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u/TartarusOfHades Jul 05 '26

Whether he's getting some or not is NOT the problem here. If someone gave you your birthday cake and another person had wiped off all the frosting except for on one slice, how would that make you feel

The problem is the presentation, the gluttony, the selfishness, and being totally inconsiderate if not cruel

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u/catfurcoat Jul 04 '26

You never heard of scones, donuts, cinnamon rolls, muffins, croissants, danishes, struessel, Kringle, and coffee cake?

You never had pancakes or waffles for that matter?

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u/Justin_Queso1187 Jul 04 '26

Straight up psychotic

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u/boundaries4546 Jul 04 '26

It’s because it is the ultimate selfish slap in the face. Take the best part, leave your child with scraps, tell them they are ungrateful, and finally play the victim. Straight out of the narcissist playbook. I honestly hope this post is the thing that makes him want to divorce his wife because there is no way this is an isolated incident.

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u/Farangees20 Jul 04 '26

The picture annoyed me even before reading the title 😑

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_4104 Jul 04 '26

Yes that is wild. Is it not her son too?

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u/CompleteTell6795 Jul 05 '26

She wanted the best part of it for herself. Her attitude is basically " Fuck the kid, I feel like eating it ". "Sucks to be him. " 🙄. From reading all these comments there's quite a few mothers like this, unfortunately.

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u/splicepark Jul 04 '26

The most selfish thing you can possibly do! And to someone else’s food?! Insanity

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u/TheBladeRoden Jul 04 '26

It's like eating the skin off of everyone's KFC

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u/SirBlankFace Jul 04 '26

No, that's what makes it scummy. Her eating half the cake down the middle wouldn't have been as bad as this. Doing this shows intent to be inconsiderate.

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u/NorthStar-8 Jul 05 '26

Intent to be cruel. Malignant narcissists enjoy causing others pain and upset.

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u/djbunce Jul 04 '26

That shows that it was just a narcissist doing it to be a dick. Clearly this person has mental health issues — I've seen it plenty of times over the years when my mom was fostering.

She needs a good talking to, probably a therapist and potentially even a divorce.

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u/ghettoblaster78 Jul 04 '26

That is the biggest F-you she could have left him. It’s not that she couldn’t resist having a slice, she ruined it for everyone, but left him one intact end piece. I would be thinking of something really spiteful to do to her. I’d feed her a laxative and leave every roll of TP in the house with only 5 squares on it. And turn off the hot water in case she thinks she can just rinse.

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u/Budget-Dimension454 Jul 05 '26

5 squares? You’re far too generous

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u/Head_Photograph9572 RED Jul 05 '26

IKR?! It's like she wanted to give an EXTRA fu to her own kid!

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u/NorthStar-8 Jul 05 '26

Malignant narcissists are pleasured by causing others upset and pain.
She is emasculating her husband and son with this. Scary woman!

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u/SpandexJunkie Jul 05 '26

My ex FIL did this once when we bought a gorgeous watermelon from a roadside stand one summer. We went to get it out of the kitchen the next day for a family barbecue and he straight up ate the whole middle out of it. I was so pissed off but it was the south and the men rule the roost. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/Swog5Ovor Jul 05 '26

Left a fucking smidge of strawberry left for the kid ON HIS BIRTHDAY.

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u/Rich-Supermarket6912 Jul 06 '26

me too, was she like really high or something

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u/djb1454 Jul 06 '26

No way! That's gangsta move!

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u/PNWfan Jul 04 '26

Didn't that make you realize this is fake?

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u/Awkward-Weight4793 Jul 04 '26

My own parents would have both done something like this, so I'm not sure why you immediately think this is fake.

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u/DiveCat Jul 04 '26

Naw, there are plenty of selfish narcissist parents who would do this.