Woman receives support from Internet for canceling ‘girls’ trip’ at last minute
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: A woman has been getting an immense amount of support online after she felt like she did wrong to her friend. The 23-year-old woman, only identified as u/spupper11 on Reddit, posted her story with a title that said, “AITA for turning around and going home on my way to the airport for a girls' trip?”
She went on to elaborate that she was “supposed to go on a girls' weekend trip to Spain with my long-time friend of almost 10 years (24F) and her other female friend (28F) who I was excited to meet. We all live in Germany, but she and her friend live about 3.5 hours away from me and I live closer to Frankfurt.”
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‘I instead elected to just fly over'
“They decided that they wanted to drive through the night (about 10 hours) and arrive in the morning and said that if I could meet them in their town I could drive with them. I instead elected to just fly over and meet them there since I live so close to an airport,” the young woman wrote, before sharing further, “The day before the trip she texts me a link to book some tickets to a museum that her and her friend booked.
“She told me to book for 2 pm, which is when they booked for. When I clicked the link, the only time slot available was 8:35 am. I pretty much was like whatever I will do something else while they are doing that."
The Original Poster (OP) then shared, “The night before the trip I text her asking her how much I owed her for accommodations and whatever else that we are splitting. This is the second time I’ve asked her since her friend was the one doing the bookings and I just assumed I would send them my share when they told me how much it cost.”
‘I really wanted to go’
But the woman did not get any reply and she “assumed she [her friend] was sleeping to prepare for the long drive. The morning of my flight (3 hours before my flight leaves) she tells me that I had to book my own hotel room because they were having a guy friend come with them that they invited last minute. She sent me a link so I could book at the same hotel as them for that night, but all the rooms were fully booked. I searched around the area too and all rooms were booked or very expensive.”
Concluding her story, the woman posted, “I really wanted to go so I just kind of let it go and prepared myself to spend some extra money for a hotel room for myself in a different hotel, but on the way to the airport, I had a gut feeling that I wasn’t going to enjoy myself. So I turned around and went home and sent her a text saying I was going to sit this one out because I was expecting a girls’ trip,” before adding, “She’s being short with me now and thinks I’m being unreasonable. AITA?”
‘You did the right thing’
A lot of people commented below u/spupper11’s share as one of them said, “NTA They absolutely booked 3 tickets to the museum...they gave it to the guy, just as they gave your bed. Your friend is a s**tty friend.” Another user stated, “NTA They kicked you out of your hotel room on short notice, they are the ones to talk! Vollpfosten!”
The third user commented, “NTA. You were just going to be a third wheel to your friend and her friend, who did not include you in museum bookings and then ditched you last minute to share a hotel room with a guy. So you'd be in Spain trying to fit yourself in with whatever plans they make together? Nope. You did the right thing.”
“This sounds like a plausible explanation. They wanted you to share the driving. They’re unhappy you didn’t just ‘accept’ your share of the driving burden they have and they’re punishing you for it by bringing someone else along to take your place. How absurd and childish,” the fourth user added.
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