Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Ok, for context. I’m a high school senior taking the IB diploma(essentially all advanced classes) and the IB coordinator hosts an annual sushi party for the IB DP seniors to celebrate being done with our big projects. I brought a cake to contribute since it’s very quick to make and I’ve been complimented on it before(there wasn’t an obligation to bring anything but I felt like I haven’t been particularly sociable with the other DP candidates before and I felt like an asshole for various accumulated slights in the past, but that’s another several stories). 

So I arrive on time at 11:00 with the cake and everything goes smoothly until the scheduled time to leave(2:00), when things were still going strong and I’d lost track of time. At 2:16 my parent knocks on the door seeming concerned and frustrated, then returns to the car at my request. I know this was rude of me, especially once I checked my phone to find several text messages and a missed call from them. The host invites them in but they decline. I talk briefly with the host and estimate that finishing the current game and serving the cake would take about another 30 minutes. I get another text from my parent asking if I can get a ride home, and after I check I find nobody lives particularly close to me to drop me off. 

So I take a piece of cake and leave the house only to find once outside my parent tells me I can stay. However I know they’ve already been waiting twenty minutes now and I don’t want to go back and cost everyone even more unnecessary time and effort than I already have, (not to mention solidifying how I’m certain I seem hopelessly wishy-washy to everyone already and wanted to at least actually commit to something), so I just ask to leave then and there. Was I the asshole for asking them to take me home then? 