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I will pay but asking for your opinion

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mokryna Fri 23-Oct-26 14:57:51

Not a close friend asked me if I would like to accompany her while she drove her foreign car to one of her flats in another country in Europe. She would leave the car there as she was getting a new one for here. We would fly back home.

The journey so long and took in a couple of nights in hotels. I paid my hotel bill and paid all the resturant bills plus a couple of supermarket shops for the food we ate at the flat, she also paid for a couple of shops, as we stayed in her flat for four days.

We have arrived home. I have a message saying she has costed up the tolls and petrol and halving the cost there is x outstanding but not to worry as I have payed for other things.
What do you think, my chin is on the floor.

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4allweknow Fri 23-Oct-26 18:31:52

Think I'd be doing the same to the "friend" showing the hotel costs and all other expenses you incurred to help her out. Not sure I'd be saying she wasn't to bother.

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mokryna Fri 23-Oct-26 19:11:19

Oreo
True, I did enjoy myself. However, if it had been me, I would have never asked for travel costs, as it would have had to be done anyway

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Gran22boys Fri 23-Oct-26 22:58:25

I am the opposite. I never ask for any money. Consequently I find myself paying for coffee more often than the other person. Often for their cake too. My husband is the same, always leaping up to pay when we are with other people. We know we are mugs really but it’s how we’re made.
However we really felt insulted when we were invited to a 90th pub birthday party by the son of a man my DH had done some work for and then were asked to pay our share of the meal!

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