AITAH, I refused to buy an overly expensive round on a girls trip abroad?
Five of us went on a trip. Four of us have known each other a while, and the fifth was a friend of mine that I knew would fit in well. She did. One of the group of four is friend I known for over 40 years, let’s call her Mandy, has always been a bit of a princess and the world revolves around her, but her many good points meant I accepted that side of her, it wasn’t overt most of the time.
About 8 years ago Mandy came into a lot of money, she has the expensive house, flash car, doesn’t have to work etc, she took her love of the finest things in life to the next level but it’s her money. She didn’t rub our noses in it, in fact she could be very generous hosting garden parties for all her friends for instance.
On this trip we took turns to pay for rounds. Mandy seemed to be acting like the ‘round police’ very conscious of who had bought what round. I did notice she ordered doubles when it was other people’s rounds but hey Ho. She exhibited similar behaviours about lunches and taxi’s too, making sure we all chipped in. Which we all were anyway, she still felt the need to police it.
She declared the next round was mine. I had bought everyone Starbucks about two hours before €30 but agreed I’d buy the next round too. A typical round had been around €50. We sat down in the bar. She proceeded to order a €150 bottle of champagne for herself and two friends, I and fifth friend ordered gin and tonic €10 each.
When the bill came she pushed it over to me. I looked at Mandy and said absolutely not. She argued that I said I would buy the next round. I said a comparable round and if she wanted me to pay for Dom P then she should have checked with me first. She then argued more saying just buy hers portion then which shocked the other two drinking it. I said no. I put €70 on the table but refused to pay the whole €170 bill. AITAH?
