AITA for joining my dil outside when they smoke but with one of those bubble cigeratees. My DIL claims I am mocking them.

This feels really stupid, and I am being told I need to apologize.

My DIL and her family smoke; at any event they are invited to, they will at one point go outside and smoke. Some vape, and some smoke cigarettes. What happens is they disappear for like 30 mins and everyone that doesn’t smoke stays inside and keeps doing there thing.

The problem is that I used to just hang out with my daughters when they did this but they have recently moved away. So now during any of the smoke breaks for her family events, I am basically left alone for 30 mins.

I tried to join them, but they kept offerieng me cigerattes and bascially said that I need to be smoking to join. I asked if they could space them so I am not alone by myself for 30 mins and they told me it was a socail thing and I can join when I smoke something.

This is literally only a problem at her family events and I go alone ( I am divorced). So I bought a cigarette that blows bubbles, so I could join them, but not actually smoke, and not have them offer me a real cigarette.

I thought it was fun. I went to their event last weekend and joined them on their smoking break with my bubble cigarette. I got a few annoyed looks, and the smoke break wrapped up quicker than usual.

After that my DIL pulled me aside and was pissed. She told me it was not okay for me to be mocking them, and she needs an apology. I told her no, and I just wanted to join them and not be left alone for 30 mins.

My son told me I also need to apologize and never take the bubble cigarette to their event again.

I don’t feel like I did anything wrong