A 25-year-old man says he “abandoned” his 20-year-old friend at a transit station three hours from home after the friend ran out of money.
Detailing the story in an anonymous post shared on Reddit, the man says his friend has “little to no budgeting experience.”
“The last time I was on holiday with him he spent all his money and then said he should borrow money [take] underground [London’s mass transit system]”, continues the man.
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Entrance to the London Underground.
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While the man lent his friend the fare at the time, the friend “never paid it back.”
Cut to this trip, and the same thing happened, with a friend who was “spending money at an alarming rate”. This time, the man writes that he told his friend to “put £10 in his suitcase and leave it there until it’s time to go”, to ensure he had enough to pay his way home.
“Good idea, isn’t it?” a man writes. “It seems he didn’t think so because he spent it all.”
When it was time to return home, the friend again asked if he could borrow money to pay for the subway ride back. But the poster had had enough.
“I said he can’t, last time he never paid it back. He said he would. I told him he should pay me back last time, but this time I’m not borrowing,” the man writes on Reddit.
He continues: “I then told him to do whatever he would have done if I wasn’t there, or if I had been as reckless as he was with my money, scanned my card, went through the barrier and went home, him still on the other side of the barrier.”
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In the end, a friend’s brother had to make a six-hour round trip to fetch him.
“His brother told me I should have loaned him money and he would pay me back. I said my actions might help him remember next time,” the man writes.
Commenters on the Reddit post mostly argued that the “friend” who’s always running out of money isn’t very good.
“This ‘friend’ clearly doesn’t understand the value of friendship if he treats people like walking ATMs,” wrote one.
Others applauded the original poster for being “clear” about its boundaries.
“It’s very tough love,” wrote another commenter. — But you warned him!
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