He Refused To Pay A Nearly $300 Dinner Bill For His Aunt And Her Five Kids Because He Didn’t Even Personally Invite Them Out, And He Thought His Aunt Was Just Trying To Get A Free Meal
Do you have a relative who not only invites themselves to almost all the plans you make but also tends to be a freeloader?
One man is really angry after his aunt and her five kids were included in what he hoped would be a small family dinner celebrating his little sister. Then, he became even angrier when she expected him to pay for everyone.
“I have an aunt on my dad’s side of the family,” he explained.
“She’s 50 and has five kids ranging from 20 all the way to 12. She’s always been known to be a freeloader and [has] taken advantage of situations and people.”
Unfortunately, despite his aunt’s history, his dad continues to feel obligated to invite her and her kids everywhere, even to outings where he hoped it would just be the two of them.
Recently, he wanted to treat his dad, two sisters, and grandpa to dinner to celebrate his little sister getting her driver’s permit. He invited them to Olive Garden and told them to clear their schedules that Friday night because he “didn’t want anyone to feel left out.”
When his dad heard that, he took it upon himself to reach out to his aunt and told her to bring her five kids and join them at dinner without telling him.
That evening, they showed up at Olive Garden at 4:30. When he asked for a table for five, his dad stopped him and corrected it to a table for 12 instead. He asked his dad why and then learned his aunt and five cousins would join them.
Thirty minutes after they were seated, his aunt and her kids showed up and immediately began ordering some of the most expensive items on the menu, leaving him in awe. When the bill came at the end of their meal, he asked their server to split it so that he could pay for his family and his aunt could pay for herself and her kids.
dikushin – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
But then, his aunt confronted him and asked why he would split the bill because she thought he was paying for them. That’s when he realized his aunt brought her kids to dinner for a free meal instead of celebrating his sister.
His dad began getting angry at him, asking him why he would “offer to pay” and then not follow through, even though he never said anything about paying for his aunt and cousins.
“I ended up asking the waitress how much it would be because I didn’t want to ruin the mood and my little sister’s accomplishment,” he recalled.
“The bill came out to be about $557.87. Excluding what me and my family ate, it would be about $243.68. I outright refused to pay for her and her kids’ meals.”
His dad ended up paying his aunt’s portion of the bill on his credit card and has been very angry with him since that night. However, he still doesn’t think he did anything wrong, as he never wanted his aunt or cousins at their dinner in the first place.
Did he do anything wrong, or is his dad to blame for the situation?
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