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Woman’s Friends Asked Her to Pay Dinner Bill as the Only Person with a Job
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Woman’s Friends Asked Her to Pay Dinner Bill as the Only Person with a Job

A woman is upset when her friends ask her to pay the entire dinner bill because she’s the only one with a job.

One to post On Reddit’s “I Am A——–” forum, the 20-year-old woman wrote that she and three friends from high school “met up and had dinner after not seeing each other for a while.”

The Reddit user said that the trip was not his idea, “but I was invited and I was very excited because it had been a year since the four of us had been together,” and stated that things got worse when the bill arrived on their desk. .

The woman wrote: “We never discussed splitting the check and our waitress left as she walked by and kept commenting about them all being at school/out of work and implying that I should be the one paying.” “Two of them are working full-time in college in work-study jobs, and the other is working full-time but is between jobs right now.”

“I work full time; I started working as a night nurse in June,” she continued. “I was a little surprised because no one said anything about paying the full bill (~$90 before tip).”

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A credit card on top of a restaurant bill (stock image).

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Thinking a fair solution would be to “pay for my meal and cover the tip,” the woman wrote: “But I wanted them to give me the price for what they ordered.”

However, the woman said that this idea was not well received among her friends. “They looked offended and gave me sideways glances but reluctantly agreed,” he wrote. “They kept making comments about me doing a ‘big girl thing,’ that I could pay the whole bill and be fine, and that I was being selfish for asking them to pay me back.”

The Reddit user also said he told his friends that “it was rude to expect me to pay without offering it first and I don’t think I’m selfish.”

“This happened a few weeks ago and they continue to make jokes/comments about what is going on in our group chat,” he added. “And I know one of them is really angry at me for what happened.”

Group of women going out for dinner (stock image).

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In the comments section of the post, many users agreed with the woman, stating that she was not wrong.

“These people are not your friends. Instead of seeing me as a replacement for my parents paying for dinner, I would step back from this group and find people who can afford the plans they make with me,” one user wrote.

Another said: “If they didn’t have money they would have offered to visit someone’s house. What they did was immature and rude.”

Meanwhile, another commenter asked the original poster about her friendships with other girls, “because it really looks like they just invited you over to get paid for dinner which is really gross.”

In response, the woman said, “The four of us were best friends in high school and freshman year of college, but we strayed a little because we each had our own paths.”