He Decided To Skip A Pizza Party Hosted By His Girlfriend’s Friends And Canceled The Day Before, So Now They Are Mad At Him, And He Doesn’t Want To Go To Their Christmas Party
This thirty-year-old man has been seeing a woman, who is twenty-six, and recently got to meet some of her friends.
They were all introduced during a dinner a few months ago, where he paid for everyone’s meals and thought everything went great.
Then, following the dinner’s success, his girlfriend’s friends decided to invite him to a day drink pizza party with board games and other activities. Well, he actually got the invitation through his girlfriend– but he agreed to go nonetheless.
Come the day before the party, though, he apparently “was not really feeling it”– especially because he has been trying to cut back on drinking and eat healthier.
So, he decided to cancel and do his own thing that day. After all, he and his girlfriend already had a bunch of other plans together for the weekend, so he did not believe it was a big deal.
“Probably a jerk for that [canceling], but I don’t think it’s major to cancel, and the girl I am seeing was okay with it,” he recalled.
And now, just this past week, he has been invited to another gathering with his girlfriend’s friends.
But this time, it is a Christmas dinner– which he heard about through his girlfriend again– that he is expected to actually show up to this time.
“[My girlfriend] says I can’t skip, and all her friends are mad at me because they had to pay for my share of the food from the pizza party, and they feel like I left her alone,” he revealed.
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All of that anger was total news to him, though, since he had no clue that the pizza party was a prepaid event. Regardless, the friends ended up buying ingredients to make the pizzas and are pretty pissed that he did not pay for his share.
So, after hearing about the Christmas party and the friends’ upset, he agreed to attend the holiday gathering. And this time, he is aware that the event is prepaid and will be catered by a private chef– which he is completely fine with.
Ever since learning that his girlfriend’s friends are angry at him over the pizza, though, he has become increasingly frustrated over the entire situation.
“How much are dough, sauce, and cheese? Can’t you just keep it in the fridge?” he vented.
“I even offered her money to send to them, but she won’t take it. I think the whole thing is absurd.”
After all, he claims he would never get mad at a friend for canceling last minute if there were already numerous other people attending the event. Plus, he believes that as a host, it is your responsibility to cover the cost of the food– not depend on guests.
On top of all that pizza party drama, though, he later found out that one of his girlfriend’s friends also accused him of trying to flirt with a waitress during the dinner where he initially met everyone.
Apparently, he made a joke and asked if the waitress wanted anything while she took everyone’s orders, and there were some small laughs.
One friend, though, viewed his humor as a red flag and told his girlfriend about her concerns.
So now, with the Christmas party quickly approaching, he honestly wants nothing to do with it.
“I think they are being petty, and they have made me feel like I’m in the dog house over pizza ingredients. They also don’t know that I know, which I think the girl I’m seeing should have told me the full picture before inviting me to something. So I am a little annoyed at that,” he said.
At the same time, though, he feels stuck because he already said yes and does not want to seem like a flake again.
In turn, he has been left wondering if skipping the pizza party– which has seemingly led to the downfall of his reputation among his girlfriend’s friends– was actually a jerky thing to do or not.
Do you think canceling the day before an event is okay or not? Should he have been expected to pay for the pizza ingredients if he was never informed? Why do you think his girlfriend’s friends invited him to the Christmas party if they are still mad at him? If you were in his shoes, would you go?
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