You were going to come on a trip to New York with me, my boyfriend and another couple. You’re single but you had no issue coming on the trip with two couples because you really want to visit New York, and we wanted you to come.
We booked a 3-bedroom suite and decided to split the cost 3 ways. My boyfriend and I pay 1/3, the other couple pays 1/3 and you pay 1/3. You got pissed off and said it should be split 5 ways because you’re essentially paying more than the rest of us. Yes, but we told you that the hotel may cost you more since you’re coming on this trip without a partner and you agreed to still come. Why should the rest of us help pay for YOUR room?
Your argument was: I’m only making 30K! The rest of you make 60-90K each! I make the least amount of money out of the five of us! Why should I have to pay more than all you guys who make a lot more than me, just because I’m coming on this trip alone! That’s not fucking fair! What kind of friends are you!
Then you demanded that if you pay 1/3 rather than 1/5, that we buy you dinner or drinks! Could you be more entitled? It’s not our fault that you’re single and make less money. If you couldn’t afford to go on this trip, then you shouldn’t have agreed to go in the first place.
When we refused to buy you dinner/drinks and still went the 3-way deal, you backed out at the last minute and decided not to come. The suite was booked and there were no more 2-bedrooms available by that time, so we ended up still paying for the 3-bedroom we didn’t need.
Then you proceeded to tell everyone who knows us what cheap cunts we all are! Ummm, YOU are the one who is cheap and YOU are the shitty friend. You can’t expect people to help pay your way just because you don’t have a really good job or a boyfriend. After this fiasco you caused, it’s quite obvious now as to why you DON’T have a man. —Better off without ya
This article appears in Sep 26 – Oct 2, 2013.
Really sounds like my ex in all honesty, always playing the victim.
You’re an absolutely casutic, self-entitled bitch, OB.
You’re friend was totally justified in her request. If she’s right (that she makes the least amount out of the 5 of you, and that you have the benefit of splitting your cost in half with your partner), then you ARE a cheap cunt.
The Captain split a 3 bedroom house with four people. There was a couple living in one of the bedrooms. Do you think the couple only paid a third of the rent? Hell no! Why? Because that’s not fucking fair.
I’ll bet that poor girl waited until the last minute to cancel on purpose. And you know what? GOOD FOR HER! You deserved to shoulder the extra cost after the appalling way you treated your ‘friend’
No.Fucking.Empathy
Sounds like new friend time!
At least you tried to set the rules before the trip. I’ve done messy trips where this wasn’t done and those ain’t too fun to correct on the fly.
Your only failing was not setting an earlier due date for them to ‘shit or get off the pot’.
Right fucking on, Captain!
OP, you’re all paying for one 3-bedroom suite, not three 1-bedroom suites. So not only is she paying for her room, she’s paying for 1/3 the services of the kitchen and the bathroom as well. She’s paying twice as much as you four!
You wanted her to come, right? And you all make at least twice as much? So what was the big fucking deal in pitching in a few more bucks to offset her cost? You define cheap cunt!
Don’t have to worry splitting anything when you travel alone
Hey, bitch, you got off lucky. Just imagine what would have happened if this cunt actually did tag along on your trip.
D’ya think they’d ask the ticket girl at MOMA if they could pay less because they don’t make much money? ha ha!
But yah, while it would make sense to some folks that all 5 people pay the same for the place, it doesn’t really because they place had 3 rooms, you were renting the rooms, not 5 individual spaces on the floor. If it was 2 rooms and you shared 1 of them, it would make sense for the 3 people to share 3/5 the cost and the other couple to share 2/5 the cost. How that 2/5 couple pay is up to them (maybe only 1/2 of the 2/5 couple pay) Fun with Fractions!
Yeah definitely new friend time…for the poor girl who’s the subject of this bitch…
You sound like a terrible person. No empathy. You’re sharing equally in the benefit of a room, but the single person pays one-third while everyone else pays one-sixth. Sounds unfair to me.
they all deserve each other. the single because she tried to use the ‘I earn less’ argument. what is she? a charity? the meals & drinks ploy is embarrassing.
and the twinned at the hip OP who pro-rates based on ‘coupledom’.
there were 5 people. it should have been split 5 ways, and the lucky single person gets a room to herself for the same cost as the others who have to share.
For fairness, it would make sense to split the overall cost of the pad 5 ways. The paying of drinks and food etc is awkward at best.
The OB is right on. The third wheel could only “afford” to go because of the other two couples. The third wheel got a bedroom just like the others. If the rate was $90 for three bedrooms then it is $30 a room. If I had a “friend” that bitched like this, they would be gone. Instead of bitching, the third wheel should say thank you for the invitation.
Wow, just fucking WOW!!! I wouldn’t take my foot off your head to save you from drowning, OB. Not only are you completely out of your mind but, what is even more mind boggling is the fact that everyone in your group of four decided that that was fair for the single person???? You rent a hotel room and split it between the amount of people, you dumb, entitled, twat. Your, or her, income doesn’t even enter into the equation except for when you brought it in to throw it in her face. I hope you didn’t go around trying to justify this to your mutual friends cause they might nod their heads in agreement face to face but, they are most definitely face palming and muttering “what a bitch” under their breath as you walk away. LOL, everyone’s laughing at you, and you have no idea. Not only are you a bitch, you’re a STUPID bitch!!!
LOL…good luck in life.
You ARE a cheap cunt op. You all paid 1/6. You left your friend (with only ONE household income instead of two – you made her income loudly clear after all…) paying the final 1/3.
What you’re essentially saying is that two get in for the price of one.
You really should be ashamed of yourself. You owe your friend a massive apology.
And you wanted to split MEALS down the middle? (With all of you, again, paying 1/6 and her paying 1/3)
Think about that for a second op. You and your boyfriend order TWO meals. She orders one. Yet you two pay 1/6 of the total bill and she pays 1/3?? How the fuck did you justify that in your head when you did the math?
How does she eat less and use less than everyone else but end up paying the most?
How come you didn’t get everyone to pay for what they consume?
You’re a greedy asshole op. This is so audacious i have half a mind to dismiss this as a joke. Nobody is this bad at math in real life. Nobody…
^^ actually ignore that last comment. I misread that.
Still. My first, initial comment still stands. You got what you deserved. And you still owe an apology.
Wow – it’s like that uncomfortable moment at a feminist picnic when it slowly begins to dawn on people that NOBODY made sandwiches.
^^ no sweetie, at a feminist picnic EVERYONE makes sandwiches! really delicious one!
Her single status and income has no relevance to Bridget Jones’ inflated sense of entitlement – I’d drop that steaming coil of ‘friend’ and wipe her off your collective shoes.
Who the fuck needs all that grief under the guise of friendship?
As far as ‘everyone’ being told you were cheap, just laugh it off and say bitch is looking for a sugar daddy’s tit to suck on.
why wouldn’t a single person travel with couples? and should a couple not travel in a group of singles? this situation aside (they all sound like idiots) why would I drop single friends when I become half of a couple? gad, sounds like prison to me.
Youre all a bunch of selfish cheap ass twats. so not only was this chick probably the only one who wasn’t gonna get laid during this trip and would probably end up hearing you all getting fucked while shes in her bed all alone, she’s the one forking over the most dolla bills for the room! fuck that! you should have gone 1/5! i hope the 4 of you got mugged down there!
“^^ no sweetie, at a feminist picnic EVERYONE makes sandwiches! really delicious one!”
Hmmmmm. Not sure if I should be thinking about the caring, nurturing community of women…
http://images.wikia.com/en.futurama/images…
or hot , hot girl/girl action.
>; )
You’re in the wrong, OB. Five people going = accommodation costs split five ways.
It’s unfair to make your friend pay twice as much as all the other individuals. If you can’t see that than you really need a reality check.
Fuck the haters OP… I’m with you! If 5th wheel wants to tag along with your double date trip then make em fork over their share of the cost. Tag alongs pay up! Aint nobody got time for freeloaders
ivan, you really couldn’t possibly get excited about girl-girl action when the *girls* wear birkenstocks, eh?
we’ll just mosey along past that thought…
cukes…what makes a single person a ‘tagalong’? what makes a couple the be-all and end-all of personal attainment? good grief. what kind of 50’s leave it to beaver mentality is that?
This bitch is legit. Your “friend” is a stupid asshole. If she was so worried about the cost of a room she could’ve got her own shitty little room and let the rest of you split a two bedroom suite. Expecting the four of you to pay for half her room is idiotic and backing out last minute was a pure cunt move. I hope you all had/have a lovely time regardless!
GDM – do you honestly think I watch Woodstock for the “peace, love and music” >; )
Not safe for work, but kinda funny. Also she has a cute dog:
http://vladtepesblog.com/wp-content/upload…
7 out of 10 mullahs agree – the lady kinda missed the point.
ivan, must have been chilly that day. and yup, really cute mutt!
one of my comments looks pretty odd now that the poster above edited out all the comments about how single people shouldn’t hang around couples.
I guess I’m an asshole too…
They’re paying for 3 bedrooms.
3 way split… simple.
If they were traveling with one couple and 3 singles, they would need 4 bedrooms, thus making the price steeper, yet the same amount of people. You’re paying for the space provided in my eyes. Guess I’m just a dickhead but it just makes the most sense to me.
I tagged along on a trip down south with a couple before as a 3rd wheel… I had to pay full price because the room was double occupancy. That’s the fucking way she goes.
so if 10 friends decide to take a trip together, splitting costs and 9 of the friends decide to all cram into one bedroom should the hotel cost be 50/50? that would make 1 person pay half of the hotel rate while the others get to split half 9 ways. on a 200$ room the one person pays 100$ and each of the others pays a little more than 10$.
it should be a per person cost. the airline didn’t give you a one person rate just because you spent a certain amount of time during the trip perched on your boyfriends lap, thereby only taking up one seat.
Actually, Z, they’re paying for a “suite” which comes with three bedrooms and a common area. Does this mean that only 1 person in each couple is allowed to occupy the common area, cause that would be split three ways as well?
and…if the price is based on number of bedrooms, could I tag along and sleep in the living room for free?
Let’s just remove the “hotel suite” and call it an apartment ….. 5 individuals move into a THREE bedroom apartment (two couples and one single). The single person has a room and the two couples occupy the other two bedrooms … still with me?
The RENT is split 5 ways …. not on a bedroom basis ….. the ENTIRE rent is shared by all.
Who would say we pay 1/3 because the two of us are sharing ONE room? Who would say this? Who who who?
I think you are the one in the wrong.. when I had a roommate and I lived with my bf we went 3 ways on the rent not two ways.. Your friend should have been able to pay 1/5 in my opinion. However the way it sounds is this is a three bedroom, there for each person occupying the room should pay for their own portion of their room and in that respect it sounds like you were in the right to do the split 3 ways.. however I still personally would have done it 5 ways to help out a friend.
What a dirty cunt! Of course you split it by the number of people – that’s only fair. All other arguments aside, OB you are a DIRTY CUNT!
I used to know this girl when i lived in britain. She was the kind of person who liked to split the food bill evenly by the number of people eating.
The problem with this was that this “all you can eat” philosophy means that the big eater gets to eat everything they want and everyone else has to pay for it.
She was fat. And she was fat because she ate like a horse 100% of the time.
She’d order lobsters, filet mignon, whole fucking chickens. And the rest of us would have salad. And end up paying most of her bill.
You tell me how that’s fair.
I realize it’s a bit of a different situation.. but it’s not really. The point is that you pay for what you use.
Two people use more resources than one op.
Your math skills are horrific. Your reasoning skills are horrific. You’re a bad friend.
And yes, we ditched fat megan. We just stopped inviting her out. We liked her… but we couldn’t afford to keep her in meals. Her family was made of money and gave a good portion of it to her. The rest of us were honestly struggling students. And she nickled and dimed us at every turn as a way of getting us to pay as much of her way as possible.
You tell me how that’s fair.
And don’t tell me this story isn’t “the same” or it’s “irrelevant” – it’s the same damn thing. You want to split a cost evenly when YOU are using more of the resources. That’s greasy.
GDM – it’s a trip not an apartment so you can stop playing up that angle. An apartment is a necessity, a trip is a luxury. If the cheapo can’t afford to join the couples on their trip then back out. Couples work together as one unit.
This is why I don’t have friends 🙁
Koda/Harper…
I stick by my interpretation.
if 9 people want to cram into one room to save a few bucks then yeah.
They are saving money by being inconvenienced.
I still say I’d expect to pay a third… and I’d also expect to be able to slam the door in their face if they have an argument and want to crash in my room to get away from their drama.
Under your scenario, since you’re all splitting evenly, they’d have open season on crashing in my bed if they wanted…. and to that I say, “fuck that noise”.
one assumes that each member of the coupledom like to sleep together, so its their choice to share a room.
cukes, that remark about couples ‘work together as one unit’ is just too creepy to think about. ew. visuals of some multi-legged beetle-like creature scuttling across the floor. chitinous. clackety clack.
lets all go on a road trip and pile on zzz’s bed while he is sleeping. see who can fart him awake
If it’s that cramped with 5 people in 2 rooms…I’d hate to see if they all slept in the same bed.
Just because two people are fucking doesn’t mean they get to pay less.
It’s like when you have a roommate and their bf/gf practically moves in and doesn’t contribute anything.
Just because you’re coupled, doesn’t mean you get a discount.
Or maybe I’m of the mind that just because you’re in a relationship you don’t lose your identity. “working together as one unit” is, as molly stated, creeeeepy.
OP you are a cheap nasty friend. I bet you are also the type that would get together with said other couple and both of you couples collectively bash your single friend for being single and not making as much as the rest of you. You guys are fucking idiots. I’m glad that friend found out what you are all like. Now that person can sit back and laugh as you make more and more money and realize in 10 years you are more and more unhappy because….surprise…life is about more than money.
“Just because you’re coupled, doesn’t mean you get a discount.”
Actually in some cases you do, for trips, on income tax forms, etc.
Discounts from paying your fair share, tim.
I’m with the majority here, OB. What if you all shared a condo? Would you still expect her to pay 1/3 if 5 of you were living there? Not cool! If you were any kind of a friend, why wouldn’t you recognize this and make the initial offer to split 5 ways? My theory is that we don’t have all the facts. I bet you told her, last minute, that it would be split 3 ways instead of 5. Selfish! She needs to find new friends!
You invite your single friend cuz you needed an extra guy to pay your accommodations. You couples are CHEAP assholes. You tried to use your friend and it came around and smacked you back in da face. hahaha good for yas. It should be 1 fifth, dummies. If you shared an apartment, you’d pay a fifth, not a third. Hotel is same thing. Just cuz you are a couple does not mean you share a body and are the same person. 2 people, 2 shares. Being a couple has turned you into an asshole. Furthermore, you dependant sacks of shit are only paying half the expenses he pays on a daily basis to live. He pays his own mortgage/rent while you rely on your partners to pay half. So quit trying to take advantage of people who are good enough to hang around with your pathetic selves and not rip the guy off and screw him into paying practically your whole hotel. He’s right You are cheap cunts! And shitty friends. You lost one…soon you’ll lose another. Now get back under the covers and sniff your partner’s farts some more.
I’m actually kinda surprised most of you are of this mindset.
It makes much less sense to me than a 3 way split.
I guess I just don’t get it.
Why on earth would I pay the same to share a room as someone who has their own room?
How is that ‘fair’?
Hint: it’s not.
zzz one of the ways I look at it is take the situation and flip it sort of. one single mom with 3 kids, and her single friend. they go on a trip together. does the mom pay 4/5 of the 2 room hotel cost? or do they split it, since mom and the kids are going to sleep together?
now lest you think this means I agree with your position…..the kids are DEPENDANTS. which half of the couple do you think would want to be considered dependant? baggage…child…..incapable of paying for themselves.
the fact that the members of the couple sleep together in the same bed makes no difference to their responsibility for the cost. they are all adults. you only get a free ride when you are a little kid BECAUSE you are a little kid. once you are no longer a little kid…..you pay your way. so……………………grow up op.
I think that a 3way split is fine or a 5way split is fine. What I don’t agree with is that OB calls this person a friend yet both parties call each other out publicly and couldn’t resolve this issue on their own. But I’m sure once the single girl reads this bitch then you won’t be “friends” anymore. And them you can both be cheap with your money and character.
Zed: hotel rooms are typically not sold individually — you pay for the entire room. By your logic, this lady the ob is bitching about could’ve camped out on the couch and paid nothing.
And bringing up how much more ob made was probably a quick response to likely being ambushed by ob.
Not often I agree with the fool, but i agree with her post.
You sound like a cheap bitch, ob. And you definitley look down on your single friends. Newsflash: not everyone wants to be like you.
molly, why would you consider one of the couple a dependent?
They each pay for their half of the room they’re staying in.
I still don’t see why I would pay as much to share a room as I would to have one all to myself. I guess I’m not cut out for communal living.
If there were a 4 bedroom place, a single and 3 couples living there, the single should only be paying 1/7th the rent? when they are entitled to 1/4 of the segregated living quarters?
I guess finding couples as roommates is like hitting the goldmine to most of you.
I still stand firm. If there’s 4 bedrooms, the people who choose to occupy each room pay 1/4 of the rent. If they’re swingers or something and put 2 beds and 4 people in the same room, that’s up to them (but I certainly wouldn’t want to live 4 people in the same bedroom… can you say ‘drama’)
Zed: my parents split the rent. Mom pays 1/3, dad pays 1/3 and I pay 1/3.
They also split everything from utilities, to food to car maintenance. They’ve also never had a shared bank account and my mom’s # 1 advice to me growing up has always been: always have your own bank account.
When mom buys yarn, she pays for it from her own money. When dad buys a new bass, he pays for it himself. They even split the profit on their house 50/50. And guess what? They never argue about money.
Also: when my mom and dad shared a suite in Toronto during my cousin’s wedding, they split the cost in thirds, not 50/50 because grandad didn’t bring his partner and my parents were a couple.
I skimmed this over like 3 times in disbelief before confirming that OB really is complaining about not being able to scam her friend. Wow. Glad the single lady was able to get away from this crazy bunch in time. She should be happy she didn’t go on that vacation…
just because that’s your arrangement, that doesn’t make it fair…
I guess I’m just of a different mindset.
When I was living with my spouse, if she had to pay half the rent, she couldn’t afford to live with me. We took our pays combined and payed out the percentage of the total our individual pay comprised. That way, paying the rent was just as hard on each of us as the other because the same percentage of our pay went to rent. To each their own, I guess. It didn’t make it fair, but it was the fairest we could get out of the situation we were in.
Some of the comments on here lead me to believe they’d be all, “Fuck that, if they can’t afford to split, they aren’t moving in”.
Yeah, well maybe I’m of the mindset that just because I’m in a relationship, doesn’t mean I’m not an individual.
However you want to split the cost between yourselves is fine, but that doesn’t mean a single individual should have to pay twice as much of a hotel (or dinner with friends where costs are split, etc…)as individuals in relationships just becbecause they’re in a relationship.
zed, if they ‘each pay for the half of the room they are staying in’ (and its not just the room, they are also paying for the common sitting room and the bathroom) that means that you think people should pay for the space they inhabit. and one half of a couple inhabits the same space as a single individual. no?
isn’t it funny how some mundane posting gets us all stirred up? and others that should spark debate just wither on the vine?
I can’t believe this argument is still going on.
The way I see it is if you are going to cut the cost on something you will all share, everyone should benefit. Why on earth would anyone cut the price in three when there are 5 people sharing the cost? I’m not here to subsidize someone else’s vacation. That is absolutely the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. I’d be telling you cheap fucks to go pound sand and getting my own damn room. I’m pretty sure that a single room is a lot cheaper than a third of a 3 bedroom suite. The benefit of the suite is that you all get to share the accommodations, not having one member of the group 3 floors down. That benefit should be shared by all, cause it benefits all of you, not just the single person. Having the whole group together will benefit all of you when it comes time to plan your activities.
Lets look at it another way… If myself and a couple are going to split a quart of rum, would I pay half and only receive a third of the quart? Yeah, not fucking likely!!!!
1 bedroom = 100$ for 1st couple
Add another couple/bedroom another 100$.
Are you coming too? A three bedroom suite is gonna be another 100$. Not 60$ for you and now 120$ for the couples just because you’re coming.
I see it as a three-way split technically but I do feel from an emotional standpoint that the more affluent members should have ponied up for the single member.I would have. Having your friends with you only makes the experience more fun and why ruin a friendship over a minor financial issue (minor to the affluent).
The bedroom usually is the dividing point for splitting costs for rental homes I understand that. When I read this bitch I understood your points but I felt more for the single person as it seems most of the commenters did. Probably because your catty final comment swung the sentiment against you.
So in sum, you ended up paying more anyway, lost a friend but stuck to your principles. A lesson here might be that friendship is more important than money.
Doubtful: the couple is two individuals who only have to pay $60 each.
There are FIVE people sharing ONE accomodation space.
What if the single just camped out on the couch and didnt pay for anything? Because all you wankers are so adamant that the suite be paid for by the room. (No room, no cost). Probably wouldnt like that too much, would ya?
agree with the cat lady logic. there is no way that bitchy-bitch OP would have let her single friend sleep on the couch for free. she would have (rightfully) pointed out bathroom use, kitchen, common area and just plain old COMMON SENSE which says EACH person pays their share.
Fuck that. I’m never traveling with you guys.
Bunch-o-crazies…
we know your plans ZZZ and we’ll be hiding behind the curtains in your hotel room.
I’m guessing your feet will give you away.
60% of the time, it works every time…