She Ghosted Her Friend After He Faked Forgetting His Wallet And Made Her Pay For His Food Twice
This 24-year-old woman had been following a guy, who is 28, on Instagram for about seven years. So, back in February, they finally began hanging out.
They’ve since gone out together on numerous occasions, and they would take turns paying for their outings.
“Sometimes he would pay, and other times, I would. I never saw it as a big deal,” she recalled.
So, the second to last time they met up, they decided to go to a Chinese restaurant. And she just decided to pay for their meal since she happened to go back up to the counter to add something to her order, and the cashier handed her the tab.
Again, though, she didn’t think this was a big deal. In fact, she actually pretended that she hadn’t paid for her friend’s bill and instead suggested that maybe a stranger had paid for their meal.
“It was not until a later day during a related conversation that I revealed that I paid for it,” she said.
More recently, she and her friend also decided to go out to eat again at a pizza place. And before they ate, they played a simple game of rock paper scissors to see who would have to foot the bill that time. She claimed it was just for fun.
Now, her friend lost, which meant he was forced to pay. Still, she thought it was fine since she won fair and square.
Yet, after they both finished eating their first round of pizza, her friend claimed to have forgotten his wallet at home. She told him it wasn’t a problem and was happy to cover their tab.
Svetlana Sokolova – stock.adobe.com- illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
She also does not like asking people to pay her back, so she just left the issue alone.
“Because I felt he would do the same for me,” she admitted.
But then, they were debating about possibly getting more food, and she could tell that her friend was still hungry.
So, being generous, she told him to order whatever he wanted and offered to pay for it again.
After she actually paid for her friend for a second time, though, he came clean about a lie. Apparently, he had just pretended to forget his wallet at home just to “see what she would do.”
“I was taken aback because, if anything, I’ve spent more money on our outings than he has, so I felt this to be a little manipulative,” she explained.
She also asked her friend why he let her pay the second time, but all he said was that he just wanted to see how she would respond.
Anyway, she feels like it would have been fine if her friend had just done it twice– even if it was a little strange. However, the fact that he made her pay twice just felt really bizarre.
“That really rubbed me the wrong way and left a bad taste in my mouth,” she vented.
That’s why she doesn’t feel very comfortable interacting with her friend anymore and decided to stop reaching out to him.
However, ever since ghosting her friend, she’s started to feel a bit bad and is wondering whether she overreacted or not.
Why do you think her friend was testing what she would do? Would you want to be friends with someone who plays strange “games” like that? Was she in the wrong for ghosting him?
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