Money is a tricky subject, no matter who you are and no matter how much you’re making. Everyone has different relationships, so it’s hard to know where each of us is coming from, and you don’t want to assume. This is especially true when you’re young. When you’re still in school, the access to money …
Seguir leyendo ‘She brought up a «debt» I had no idea I was supposed to repay’: 18-year-old’s mom buys 2 tickets for a Kendrick Lamar concert, forces daughter’s friend to pay her the €130 back despite not informing her it wasn’t a gift
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‘I feel that I am always expected to put my card down’: 21-year-old Guy realizes 8-year best friend treats him like a personal ATM, uses his car, but never pays him back, decides enough is enough
Some people possess an unmatched ability to transform friendship into a one-way toll road where they receive unlimited benefits while somehow never managing to locate their wallet when the bill arrives. These emotional freeloaders operate under the delusion that shared trauma creates permanent payment exemptions, treating childhood bonding as lifetime meal tickets and genuine connections …
Seguir leyendo ‘I feel that I am always expected to put my card down’: 21-year-old Guy realizes 8-year best friend treats him like a personal ATM, uses his car, but never pays him back, decides enough is enough
‘I received all my jewelry back and was repaid for all the charges’: Pregnant woman’s teenage dinner guest steals earrings and a debit card, gets caught, dragging her 4 accomplices to work minimum wage jobs to repay $1000 in theft plus overdraft fees
Teenage bandits possess a remarkable talent for turning simple theft into elaborate self-sabotage. They approach stealing with the same strategic brilliance they bring to choosing their prom dates, which is to say they make decisions that seem logical only if you’ve never experienced consequences before. The modern young thief operates under the delusion that overdraft …
Seguir leyendo ‘I received all my jewelry back and was repaid for all the charges’: Pregnant woman’s teenage dinner guest steals earrings and a debit card, gets caught, dragging her 4 accomplices to work minimum wage jobs to repay $1000 in theft plus overdraft fees
Wedding business owner tired of being bombarded with friends and family demanding free photobooths bails on entitled bride’s big day: ‘I had bigger things to deal with than a free Photobooth booking’
The saying goes keep your friends close and your enemies closer but when this woman started a wedding business, every personal relationship transformed into a charity evaluation committee, and your skill set becomes communal property distributed through guilt trips and vague promises of future promotion. She found out this applies to customers just as well …
Seguir leyendo Wedding business owner tired of being bombarded with friends and family demanding free photobooths bails on entitled bride’s big day: ‘I had bigger things to deal with than a free Photobooth booking’
‘This is my money – I can do what I want with it’: Self-employed 22-year-old cuts ties with freeloading friend who tries to guilt-trip her for spending money on herself rather than his rent-free couch-crashing lifestyle
Everyone knows the deepest, most profound wisdom is found on cheap t-shirts. And one such popular statement t-shirt reads: «One boo, no ex, small circle, big checks.» After you’ve taken a minute to process these complex metaphysical words of wisdom, you’ll see why the 22-year-old should not only do the same, but probably buy that …
Seguir leyendo ‘This is my money – I can do what I want with it’: Self-employed 22-year-old cuts ties with freeloading friend who tries to guilt-trip her for spending money on herself rather than his rent-free couch-crashing lifestyle
Sports team member calls out friend for utilizing AI to write an entire memorial eulogy for someone close to their club, friend fails to see the moral issue: ‘[He] went on to say I was being disrespectful’
AI-generated images and texts are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from human-made digital and textual assets. As a writer, I am compelled to acknowledge that AI-generated content, in terms of both creative writing and personal writing, is treading the line of unethical. Aside from the fact that artificial intelligence will never match a human writer’s …
Seguir leyendo Sports team member calls out friend for utilizing AI to write an entire memorial eulogy for someone close to their club, friend fails to see the moral issue: ‘[He] went on to say I was being disrespectful’
Woman backs out of girls’ trip and offers to pay her $200 share of the Airbnb, her friends want her to pay the full $300 cancellation fee: ‘I decided to not go anymore for personal and safety reasons’
Organizing a trip with a lot of people isn’t always the easiest task. There is a lot that goes into making sure everyone is happy. Let’s say you’re going with four friends. One of you would rather stay in a hotel, and one of you would rather stay in an Airbnb where you can cook. …
Seguir leyendo Woman backs out of girls’ trip and offers to pay her $200 share of the Airbnb, her friends want her to pay the full $300 cancellation fee: ‘I decided to not go anymore for personal and safety reasons’
University student refuses to foot the bill for their friend’s birthday dinner after friends order ‘enough sushi for a small country’ and take back their offer of paying for the bill
Why hasn’t the entire world normalized getting separate checks yet? Splitting the bill is inherently uncomfortable, no matter how close you are with the folks you’re dining with. Money makes people feel and act weird, and that’s likely because it is the root of all evil… Grand opinion about the world we live in aside, …
Seguir leyendo University student refuses to foot the bill for their friend’s birthday dinner after friends order ‘enough sushi for a small country’ and take back their offer of paying for the bill
‘I feel like I have no peace in my own home’: Host refuses to accommodate freeloading friend who arrives for a 13-day visit, demanding airport pickup, daily rides, free meals, and control of every shared space
Some houseguests arrive with flowers, others with a suitcase of demands. The childhood pal of a brand-new driver lands firmly in the second group. Twelve months of warning produced zero planning, so when the pal shows up the same week the homeowner’s mother faces risky surgery, chaos moves in. The friend insists on free airport …
Seguir leyendo ‘I feel like I have no peace in my own home’: Host refuses to accommodate freeloading friend who arrives for a 13-day visit, demanding airport pickup, daily rides, free meals, and control of every shared space
New parents refuse to chip in for a Gucci bag and $3500 birthday dinner after entitled friends ask them to: ‘These expensive group gifts are not something we feel comfortable doing anymore’
When did we all collectively decide that we were going to spend an arm and a leg on birthday gifts for our friends, especially in this economy?! Forget a homemade birthday cake and a gift card to Dunkin‘, you’re expected to chip in hundreds of your well-earned smackaroons so your entire friend group can gift …
Seguir leyendo New parents refuse to chip in for a Gucci bag and $3500 birthday dinner after entitled friends ask them to: ‘These expensive group gifts are not something we feel comfortable doing anymore’