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Input: **TL;DR :Friend refuses to pay me back because he didn’t ask for my convenience.**

Note: Everyone’s name has been changed for privacy reasons.

October of last year, 3 friends of mine all wanted to see a movie premiere 4 hours from the time it begins. So last minute planning, everyone was certain that the theater was gonna be packed, and no time slots would be available. Being the person glued to my phone among my friends, I suggested to them that I have an app that can buy the tickets online, and just pay me back whenever. The agreement was unanimous, so I went ahead and bought everyone a ticket, total was $52.36 (online convenience fee sucks). I got the tickets and even managed to reserve the seats.

Fast forward to the movie, it was packed. Nearly all seats were taken, and if I didn’t reserve them ahead of time, we’d all be separated throughout the theater. Movie turned out okay imo, but it was a good night.

After the movie, Mike suggested that we go to B-Dubs for dinner. I made a reminder to them of the equal split of the movie tickets to pay me back and even bothered to waive the convenience online fee, so everyone would have owed me $11.44, and that you have the option to cover me at the restaurant and I’ll drop the charge for that individual.

We’re at the restaurant and Ross decided to take my offer and pay me back, but he had the added benefit of covering me and only paying $8 for my dinner. So I’m my eyes Ross has payed his debt in full. This was commonly deemed fair among our group. Allen wanted me to add it to his tab, so I did. He payed me back the tab 3 days later. 

Mike was the last that owed me the cost for the ticket. Two weeks went by and I decided to ask him when will he pay me back (I even showed him he receipt). He argued that he didn’t ask for me to cover him despite agreeing to go to the movie with all of us and agreeing that I reserve the ticket for him so that we will not get separated. I argued that he was going to spend money for the movie ticket regardless, I just added the convenience for him so we won’t get separated in the theater. Allen is siding with me on this and Ross has no opinion, but Mike is still not convinced. This argument lasted for only a  few minutes until we all got busy because of school. I pretended to forget about it for a few months.

Fast forward to today, I quietly dropped the charges of $11.44 as a “late Christmas present” because I didn’t want to deal with this anymore. But me being salty, I refused to do any future financial transactions with Mike. Other than that, we’re still cool as long as he’s not part of similar financial situations.

Was I being an Asshole doing all this?

Edit: The movie was Halloween (2018)

Edit 2: I don’t round up or down what people owe me. $11.44 is $11.44, I’ll even take them in pennies.

asking a friend to pay me back for a movie ticket