August 8th, 2025
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AIO: Friend asks for gas money when he drives an EV, mocks my epilepsy
August 8th, 2025
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studiousyew
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Roppongiclub
Wow good catch! Yeah OP sucks.
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[deleted]
You're using your friend as a personal chauffeur service so that YOU can save up money for a car, and just expect them to constantly do it for free? Sounds like you're taking advantage of a really good dude and trying to gaslight him into thinking you don't owe him anything.
Quit being selfish. I know what subreddit we're on, but YTA
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Beneficial_Muscle_25
he's a phoney read his other threads
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FinnkyCK
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FluffBusty
Any expectation of compensation should be communicated before providing service, otherwise this feels like a form of extortion. I would expect most of my friends to offer to reward me for my time in some form, but if I were agreeing to transport someone in order to donate plasma for cash I would take their inferred financial hardship into consideration. OP is being an immature and ungrateful person with their behavior, but any transaction needs to be agreed upon before initialization. OP is a shitty friend and the other party is being sloppy with their request. I say we deport them both.
FinnkyCK
I agree. My only consideration would be the friends financial situation too. Not outlined here so it may be that they are also strapped and then the expectation to not pay is even more rude
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oversizedjacketnscrf
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[deleted]
That was the part that got me. It sounds like he’s doing it for money, not like getting blood drawn and “I’m not supposed to eat before” is the literal exact opposite advice and thing you should do before donating blood. Just a straight up lie to justify being cheap to his friend
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BreakfastEntire652
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diligentlyunbearable
I agree it should have been discussed before even giving a ride. OP just take public transportation.
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ContemplatingFolly
Best answer here about discussing it beforehand, or just refusing to drive if they were feeling used/burned out.
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Beneficial_Muscle_25
he's a phoney
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2npac
I think it's common sense to offer someone something if they're doing you a favor. And when they've done it multiple times and you cry about $25?
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2npac
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Beneficial_Muscle_25
don't answer this guy, he makes stuff up to gain karma, see his other threads, he's been a guy, a girl, a teenager, a 50yrs old husband, a father, a sister, everything under the sun
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LuciusDickusMaximus
Bro back in the day I was helping him out all the time. Never asked him for shit. Then I fall down on my luck and he’s like this.
[deleted]
If this is true I’d pay him, but view it as You buying yourself out of the friendship. Don’t talk to them again.
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2npac
Take it as a lesson learned then or remind him. That's why we can't expect others to hold the same standards we hold for ourselves. I'm the same way. I always help others and never ask for shit but I don't expect them to do the same for me
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Roppongiclub
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[deleted]
OP asks once a month for a ride, that’s not that big of a deal. If you don’t want to do a super small favor for a friend are you even a friend? Especially a friend that is currently trying to get a job. I and most other people would do this in a heartbeat for our friends
Roppongiclub
Favors shouldn’t cost consistent money. True friendship should not have a price tag. Then the guy laughs at him for asking for a measly 25 bucks to help out? Everyone defending this Are obvious moochers.
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Roppongiclub
And offering him leftovers!?!? LOL
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[deleted]
Bro doesn’t have a job, asking money from a guy without a job is monstrous
Roppongiclub
Has money to eat out though which is 2-5x+ more expensive than cooking a meal. He has money just not money to give to his friend who is helping him.
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[deleted]
For all you know he could’ve went out with his parents and they bought dinner the night before and that’s the leftovers
lupuscrepusculum
How’s he passing out after leaving a hookah bar, then?
You bums do some crazy work justifying your bum ways 😂
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[deleted]
Oh I missed that part tbh
Also I’m not a bum, I’m the one that drives but nice try.
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Ohmigoshness
You must be the friend lol.
Roppongiclub
Lame ass response.
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Weird_Iron_3892
You sound like a terrible person to be friends with. As I read it, you'd charge your friends for "wear and tear" and asking them for money because your brake discs were used more. If someone is in the position to say "well just get a car, it's not that difficult", you have enough money to not ask your friends for fucking gas money holy shit if that's what you call friendship I don't want it
Roppongiclub
You missed my point entirely.
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Weird_Iron_3892
There was no "point". You clearly can't read. OP only said that because the venmo was titled "gas money". Being stingy as a friend sucks, might as well not be friends.
ContemplatingFolly
Being stingy as friend does suck. That's why u/Roppongiclub has the point.
You seem to be seeing this as if "Friend" has a moral obligation to drive OP everywhere! I'm all about helping others out when I'm the fortunate one, but just because they have a car doesn't mean they have a lot of cash, nor that they should act as someone's driver without any kind of reciprocity. OP can't do the smallest thing to reciprocate (buying him a Coke, maybe, at least?)
We don't know all the details here. I think we might agree that if "Friend" is tired of OP using him as a driving service, he should probably cut him off rather than asking for cash.
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Weird_Iron_3892
I totally get where you are coming from, but that's simply not what I define as being a friend. To much information is missing to be the judge of this, but I don't think OP never does anything for his friend. Driving someone one fucking time a MONTH, isn't that big of a deal. I never said that just because you own a car means having a lot of money. It's the way he said "... to atleast buy a car, it's not that hard" as if it actually is that easy. To be fair, I don't know where OP is coming from, but 25 dollars for a drive that long would be way to much from where I am from.
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Helpful-Lab2702
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deckyon
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Beneficial_Muscle_25
he's a phoney
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glassbellwitch
You as your friend for a ride once a month and you don't even throw him some cash to cover it?
YOR. Stop being cheap and pay the guy.
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Impossible_Bid_8573
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ShiftyPan
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felisha_
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Beneficial_Muscle_25
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