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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/deliphone on 2023-09-03 17:51:52.

I(25m) was out with my girlfriend(25f) and some other friends. We were drinking and having a good time. I smoke(trying to quit) and went outside alone for a smoke. I was standing in front of the bar kind of a short walk away. I don’t like standing right in front of the door because the smoke gets into the bar or establishment.

This frantic looking woman is walking at normal pace and there is a guy a couple of feet behind her. She walks to me and says “Hey, baby, I’m glad you’re waiting where you said you would.” I was confused at first but I quickly understood the situation. This guy was weird and on the way up he was muttering weird things like “just give me your number” "you’re so pretty " “I just want to talk to you” etc. When I told someone else this story I was asked why I didn’t react when I saw her walking and heard that. And the answer is it all happened very fast and I had been drinking.

Once i put it together I said “hey, honey, been waiting for you.” And she put her arm around me and it took longer than I would have liked for the guy to leave. I was being gentle saying “alright, goodbye buddy” and “we’ve gotta get back home.” Eventually the guy left but not because she wanted him to leave, because I kept insisting. Nothing bad happened at all. My girlfriend had been watching from the window and must have only caught the end part of it and saw the other girl with her arm around me.

My girlfriend is not the type to cause a public scene. She’ll wait until a private time to air her grievances. The girl had no money for an Uber and was planning on walking home but felt too nervous. So I arranged for an Uber to pick her up and waited outside with her until the car came.

Jumping ahead to when I was home with my girlfriend. She asked me “what was that all about?” and wanted to know why her arm was around me and why I stayed after the creep left. She put together that the guy was being weird but she said I shouldn’t have let her put her arm around me. Even though after the guy left she removed it. None of my explanations were working so I just turned it to her and said “what would you have wanted me to do?” and “if you were here, what would you have wanted the guy to do?” She just couldn’t answer and said to “stop flipping it.”