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Input: This happened several years back. My best friend lived in another city with a bunch of mutual friends. Her then boyfriend lived abroad. He had planned something special for her birthday even though he wouldn't have been able to visit and he was in touch with the aforementioned mfs to help him. She visits my city, which happens to be both our hometown, the weekend before her birthday. I was asked by one mf to get one of her gifts as planned by the bf and I was told that I would be reimbursed. It was sort of an expensive gift, not exorbitant but definitely over the budget one would spend for a friend's birthday gift. So we went shopping, stopped by a place for the gift and I asked her to pick the one she liked. She selects one, loves it and I think, fine maybe we should get this. We decide to grab a bite before buying it. And while we were at the restaurant, I receive a call from the mf asking me to abort the plan and that the bf wanted to get it himself. So I forgot about it and when we were done shopping she stopped at the gift shop again, took the one she had picked first and was just kinda admiring it. So this is where I know I screwed up. I went ahead and got it for her anyway. My reasoning being anyway the initial plan was to have me get it so it should be fine and if the bf doesn't want that, it can still be a gift from me. That blew up. I understand that he wanted to get it for her, but it's not such a gift that you can have only one of it.(think handbag, shoes, plush toy). And anyway if her boyfriend got the same one it will surely be extra special. I apologised to both of them. But it ended badly and they ending up fighting. They both stopped talking to me and blocked me on all social media platforms. I truly felt awful, and I understand why the bf was upset but I still feel the reaction was a bit extreme. It was not like I planned to sabotage their special day. Please tell me, AITA?

Note: things are good with my friend now. She started talking to me again after a year and they broke up sometime after that for reasons unrelated.




inadvertently ruining friend's birthday surprise