Woman Invited Friends Over For Dinner At Her House, But Instead Of Serving Them Dinner, She Expected Them To Buy It Themselves
by Matthew Gilligan

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This story is just plain WEIRD.
I mean, who does this?!?!
It’s one thing to have a friend who brags about everything, but it’s crossing a line to completely ignore social convention and do things that are, well, pretty tacky!
In case you’re wondering what the hell I’m talking about…well, you’ll see.
Get started now and see what you think!
AITA for telling off a friend when she charged us for dinner?
“I hang out with a group of friends, and in which one of them is rather boastful influencer.
She would talk about her wealth, trips, cars, boyfriends etc non-stop.
Usually, the rest of us would just listen and not really take offense because she was just rattling off about herself.
Jackpot!
Recently this friend snagged an extremely rich boyfriend and she proceeded to move into his multi-million mansion.
She was so excited and posted pictures of the pool, jacuzzi, etc.
She invited us to her new house and specifically said, “I want to invite all of your for dinner at my new house with my BF!”.
The rest of us accepted the invitation and came to the house.
She wasn’t lying!
All the wealth she told about really existed and her BF was nice.
He didn’t stay throughout as he had paperwork to finish in his room.
Soon it was dinner time. We were all hungry as it was quite a long drive to the mansion and suddenly my friend took out her phone and said, “Okay I’ll be ordering food and drinks from a nearby mart. Tell me what you want and I’ll get it delivered here.”
It was odd but not too odd.
I thought it was strange that she was ‘ordering food’ only then instead of having food already prepared for us guests by the numerous maids there.
No drinks was served but we had to order them as well.
The food came, it was cold and I just ate and didn’t think much of it.
The rest of the night was pretty much normal.
Huh?
After we left, the friend proceeded to send us a text of the detailed break down of the cost of the a la carte dish and drink that we each ordered with a firm reminder to quickly transfer her the money.
The first thing that came to my mind was annoyance!
She gave us the impression that she would SERVE US DINNER AT HER BF’s MULTIMILLION MANSION but it just ended up with each of us paying for our dinner!
What sort of hostess was she?
It was very misleading.
I felt that her invitation was misleading.
I wasn’t expecting a 10-course dinner, but social convention would imply that at least some simple food and water would be served for the GUESTS and GUESTS would NOT BE CHARGED.
We transferred her the money and then I sarcastically texted in the group chat saying, “Oh wow, if I knew we were all paying for our individual meals, we could have met at a restaurant for dinner! I guess all that wealth in the house was just for show!”
Then I left the group chat. Since that incident, I never hung around much with her.
AITA?”
It is really weird to invite friends over for dinner at your house but expect them to pay for their own food.
Check out what folks had to say about this on Reddit.
This person said she’s NTA.

Another reader agreed.

This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Another person weighed in.

And this reader had a lot to say.

Well, this story took a strange turn!
If you thought that was an interesting story, check this one out about a man who created a points system for his inheritance, and a family friend ends up getting almost all of it.
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