Her Friend Didn’t Buy Her A Corsage For Prom And Claimed To Be Too Poor To Afford It, So She Told Her Off In Front Of All Their Friends
An 18-year-old girl has her high school prom coming up, and she was planning on going with a bunch of all of her girlfriends.
One friend that she has, Courtney, doesn’t have a ton of money at all. Despite that, she really has gone out of her way over the last year to help Courtney out.
She drives Courtney wherever she needs to go, and she will buy Courtney food too without expecting any repayment.
As time has gone on though, she’s beginning to think that Courtney only wants to be her friend because she spends a lot of money on her, and a recent incident that occurred relating to their prom has confirmed her worst fears.
Courtney mentioned that it would be a great idea to get all of their girlfriends to go to prom in a big group.
Courtney planned for them all to go out for dinner together, and she also planned for every girl to buy one another a corsage for prom.
“Everyone was on board and she created a system where we all were given someone in our group to get a corsage for,” she explained.
“They go for like $40-$50 bucks apiece and Courtney is the type of person to make you pay her back for a single french fry.”
“Not only that, but she went so over budget on a dress that it cut into her grocery money for the next month. But I didn’t say anything.”
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She kept quiet, figuring that Courtney had to have money saved and set aside specifically for their prom.
Well, a couple of weeks ago, Courtney revealed to her that she “forgot” to tell her that she could not order her a corsage because she was too poor to buy it.
So, she was about to be the only girl in their friend group showing up to prom without a corsage.
All the rest of their friends began telling Courtney that it wasn’t fair of her to do, but she still didn’t call Courtney out. She let her friends tell her off, as it wasn’t the biggest deal to her.
“I don’t care about a flowery slap bracelet as long as I can take a shot right before,” she said. “But then Courtney also tries to spin it around, telling us that we should have told her about the price before she agreed to it.”
She found that ridiculous, as Courtney was the one who wanted them all to get corsages, so Courtney clearly knew the price of them.
Later on, she and her friends noticed that Courtney posted online about spending $250 on her nails and hair for prom.
One of the girls in their friend group screenshotted Courtney’s post and sent it to their group chat, with Courtney on there.
Courtney began accusing them all of coming at her for being poor, before insisting her dad gave her all that money for her nails and hair.
“This other girl in the group that I’m friends with (Lauren) suggested that she should have given me some of the money to reimburse for the corsage (because I bought one for her because that was literally the plan) and Courtney flips,” she continued.
“Tries to dismantle the group, calls us fake, etc…Courtney had no problem lamenting about her financial crisis in the chat, so I see no problem telling everyone that she owed me for all the times I drove 20 mins out of my way to take her home because she ‘didn’t like the bus’, about all those times I bought her meals and gave her cash.”
She told Courtney off in the group chat for being selfish and not following through with something she already had agreed to do.
She is going to let Courtney just wear the corsage she bought for her when prom comes, leaving her the only one in the group without a corsage, but it’s not about how much the corsage cost for her.
She feels that Courtney completely uses her and on top of that, Courtney intentionally did something to make her feel “left out” of their group.
She’s wondering if it was wrong of her to take a stand against Courtney, in front of all of their friends.
Do you think she was right to do what she did, or should she have saved it and said something to Courtney privately?
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