Woman Demands Friends Reimburse Her After She’s Unable to Join Vacation Trip, They Refuse, Causing Tension in the Friendship

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 22, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Planning a vacation takes a lot of time and effort, and money. To finally execute the fantasies in your head about a place, and know that you've worked hard for the vacation is a great feeling. You're filled with excitement about the idea that you're finally making it abroad. When this doesn't go to plan, things could get complicated. 

In this Reddit thread, these friends have been planning this trip for a while. They all put in the money, split everything up, booked their flight and Airbnb, and they were all at the airport. One friend in particular was unable to board the plane, and truthfully it was her own fault. The others still went on the flight and vacation, rightfully so. But instead of buying another ticket, the one who stayed behind demanded they reimburse her when they returned.

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  • 01
    r/AITAH ⚫ 16 hr. ago • Odd-Recording-3026 Friend was not allowed to board the flight, the rest of us still went on the vacation, now she wants us to pay her back. AITAH if I don't pay her?
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    Throwaway and changed some details, I don't think anyone involved is on reddit but I'm paranoid lol.
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  • 03
    Me and three friends planned a vacation to Hawaii. We booked the flight, hotel, and car together for a discount and then split the costs 4 ways, so we each paid roughly $800 (we also booked a couple things to do there totaling around $250).
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    The day of the flight we all arrive at the airport and start going through TSA. One of my friends, I call her Sarah, got stopped because she had a weed pen in her bag. She says she just forgot it was in there and didn't intentionally bring it, but it. doesn't really matter either way.
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    TSA ended up calling airport PD and Sarah was not allowed to board the flight (weed is not legal in our state. She wasn't arrested but she was given a ticket and court date and not allowed through security).
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    Obviously the rest of us still got on the plane because we're looking forward to our vacation. Now were back and Sarah is mad at all of us for going and wants us to pay her back for her portion of things since she couldn't go. But I don't think we should have to! Its not our fault she wasn't allowed to fly and I didn't budget for paying her half as well.
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    She's also mad because the airport is 1 hour from our home city, and we didn't give her the keys to the car so she had to pay for an uber home (we didn't say she couldn't have the keys, its just that no one thought to give her the keys to Matt's car when it was all going down).
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  • 08
    One of my friends says we should just pay her to keep the peace, but I don't think we should have to, Matt also thinks we shouldn't have to pay her. If we split her costs it would be about $350 each, I could technically afford it but I'm working on paying off my credit card and that's about the same amount I put toward the
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  • 09
    credit card each month, so it would put me a month behind on my plan to pay off my last credit card (I was a little irresponsible in my early twenties).
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  • 10
    AITAH if I refuse to pay her back? And even if I'm not the AH, should I just do it anyway to keep the peace?
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    beansblog23 15h ago INFO: why didn't she get on a later flight once everything was cleared up?
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    SoMoistlyMoist • 16h ago Look at it this way, if she were traveling by herself and paid for her own stuff in full and this same thing happened because she's an idiot and left her weed pen in her bag instead of her checked luggage, you wouldn't be expected to
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    wouldn't be expected to reimburse her for that right?
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  • 14
    Individual-Foxlike •16h ago NTA. She was bright enough to bring weed to TSA, that's her fault.
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  • 15
    solstice38 • 16h ago This is 100% her fault. None of you did anything wrong, and there is no reason at all to reimburse her for her costs.
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    Caspian4136 16h ago NTA Sarah is an adult and made a very bad mistake by "forgetting" her weed pen in her bag. As it's not legal in your state, she's very, very lucky she didn't get arrested for it. TSA doesn't
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    around with anything much less take the excuse as "I forgot". She will probably be pulled into secondary every time she crosses the border now. I cross the border on the regular, there's ample signage about this exact thing in airports and at land
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    border crossings. Even if it's legal in one state and going. into another province/country (say Ontario where it's legal), you still cannot cross with it.
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    Anyway, this is 100% on her. Everyone knows that you need to be very careful what you cross the border with. You guys shouldn't have to literally pay money for her mistake.
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  • 20
    Datura_Rose 16h ago NTA. I'm a person who also uses and carries substances that are not universally legal. I'm usually careful when traveling, but I have forgotten and had things confiscated - no one's fault but mine. No one owes her a thing.
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