If you want to test the true strength of a friendship, skip the trust falls and just go to dinner at a fancy restaurant with a group of broke high schoolers. Nothing quite exposes class dynamics, budget delusions, and two-faced freeloading like splitting an astronomical check after everyone has spent the meal pretending to «just …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old high schooler is pressured by friends Amanda and Sam to cover a $500 restaurant bill during a weekend trip after Amanda orders half the menu and claims she “forgot her card,” but the responsible teen refuses to foot the bill: ‘My meal was $26’
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22-year-old girl forces friend to sit on guy friend’s lap for 1.5 hour drive, gets mad when she Ubers home: ‘Sarah tried to argue, but my ride showed up, so I left’
Sitting on someone’s lap during a car ride is not only uncomfortable but unsafe! We’ve all probably done it in a pinch, but only for a 5-minute drive to the convenience store or home from dinner. Anything above 20 minutes is untenable. If you’re the one on top, you’re unbuckled, sliding all over the place …
Seguir leyendo 22-year-old girl forces friend to sit on guy friend’s lap for 1.5 hour drive, gets mad when she Ubers home: ‘Sarah tried to argue, but my ride showed up, so I left’
16-year-old’s teachers and therapist pressure her to cut her beautiful long hair for wigs for kids with cancer, tell her she’s obliged to do it: ‘The poor kids don’t have the chance to choose, you have’
There’s such a hullabaloo about cutting your hair off to donate it to the wig charity ‘Locks of Love.’ If anyone has long, beautiful hair and is just walking around existing, they often get asked if they want to donate their hair to make wigs for cancer patients. While it’s a noble thing to want …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old’s teachers and therapist pressure her to cut her beautiful long hair for wigs for kids with cancer, tell her she’s obliged to do it: ‘The poor kids don’t have the chance to choose, you have’
‘It’s called having a party’: Non-imbibers bemoan the social pressure to have an open bar wedding, get roasted in the replies
There is so much tradition and rigamarole that goes into having a wedding. Not only in the ceremony, where most people follow arcane rituals of unveiling, escorting the bride, and using performative language to get it all done, but in the reception too. Recent tradition holds that you must have either a band or a …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s called having a party’: Non-imbibers bemoan the social pressure to have an open bar wedding, get roasted in the replies