BF & I decided to grab popcorn, two share bags of sweets (worth about £7 altogether), and alcohol in the shop last night. BF bought a bottle of Vodka and I picked up a bottle of wine for £10.
We queue to pay, I’m standing behind BF with the sweets and wine, and someone BF knows is standing behind me and they end up making small talk. BF gets called to pay, and tells me to put everything up except the wine as he’s not paying for it (in front of the cashier). I felt a bit awkward for the cashier so I tell him that it’s fine and I’ll pay for everything and go back to queue, but he tells me again to put them up, so I did (without the wine) and go back to the queue! BF’s “friend” is still behind us waiting to be served and can obviously see what’s going on. BF then tells me to just stick the wine up, and I did!
We get out of the shop and straight away BF starts complaining that I gave in too easily by letting him pay and he only said it because of the man he knew behind me. Bearing in mind, it took a total of three times for me to pop everything up on the counter!
He said he expected me to not give in so easily and only said to put my things up because of the man behind us. For context, I always pay for my own things and BF acknowledges this frequently & does admit that I do pay for more at times. I explained to him I did relent initially but felt like a yo-yo going up and down in the queue and he said fair enough but “that’s all I’m getting”.
AIBU for letting BF pay? Just to clarify he’s not struggling financially. I felt annoyed because I got the bus out to meet him (to save fuel costs) and so we could meet “quicker” (his excuse). I don’t know if I’m overreacting but it kind of spoiled my night and I didn’t even drink the wine!