The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/ThroaayCheatAcc on 2024-04-28 18:23:42.

I (29M) joined my girlfriend (30F) for a board game buffet brunch three days ago for a get together with a couple of her work friends that I wasn’t familiar with. There were about eight of us (I was one of three men) and we decided to play scrabble after a quick round of zombie dice.

I love board games I like believing in the integrity of the game. During the scrabble game I was impressed by the vocabulary of… let’s call her Cassidy. She played a lot of big words and managed to secure a good chunk of points through it all. But then as I started to see her thinking I noticed that every so often that she’d pull out a device and start looking at it. After the third time this happened (just after she drank a glass of water) I called her out on it like “Wow, I guess some of us have to rely on more than our brains to really play together.”

Cassidy got quiet and handed me the device she was using. It said ‘Glucose/blood sugar/blood pressure’ on it. She explained that she was just checking her blood sugar through the brunch.

I went pale and didn’t say anything for the rest of the game. The game changed to a fake artist goes to new york and I went with Cassidy to get extra markers. I apologized to Cassidy when we got hte markers, saying that I didn’t like it when people played games off of what I perceived to be a different advantage and she said it was uncomfortable but she could see how I mistook that for happening. We finished up brunch and the board games and started to head off.

When my girlfriend and I got back to our place she started saying that what I did was a total social gaffe. I agreed with her and I told her when we got a fake artist I apologized to CAssidy. She said that wasn’t a good enough apology because I publically humiliated her and I needed to publically apologize to her. I didn’t agree with this statement because I think public apologies are just a way to save face with people who weren’t involved in the conflict. I said that I apologized directly to her and she said she accepted the apology.

The next day I went to pick up my girlfriend from work and she said that it was the perfect time to apologize to Cassidy in public as Cassidy was just pulling into her shift. I didn’t want to make a big deal of it so I just walked off to the car. My girlfriend followed but I’ve been getting a frosty reception ever since.

anyways, AITA for not apologizing further to Cassidy after publically accusing her of cheating in a board game?