Spoiled college girl shames her best friend's frugal boyfriend for being broke, then begs her friend to bankroll her vacation: ‘Like it was some inside joke that I'd cover her'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 17, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

Spoiled college girls are usually really good at pretending they're not broke as a joke, but this 20-year-old's girlfriend's best friend was waving red flags about her financial stability from the moment he met her. After repeatedly making comments about his hand-me-down clothes and his outdated car, it's as if she were projecting her own financial failures on someone more responsible than her. 

Alas, when it came time for a last minute vacation weekend with their friends, the boyfriend refused to go, stating he didn't have $300 to drop just like that. And because of his frugal decision, the vindictive friend endlessly shamed him, only to prove that she, too, was lacking the appropriate funding for this trip. 

She just didn't dare to admit it. 

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  • My(20M) girlfriend's (21F) best friend called me broke, then asked my girlfriend to pay for her trip I'm in my second year of college and I thought I had my life pretty much figured out. I had a girlfriend I loved, a
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  • part-time campus job that kept me afloat, and a small but close group of friends. Life wasn't perfect, but it was good. Then her best friend came into our lives. I'm not the type to dislike people without a reason, so when my girlfriend
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  • “I laughed it off, but it stung”

  • introduced me to her, I genuinely tried to be friendly. But from day one, she had this energy that I don't like. She made these small comments about my clothes, my old phone, and once even joked in front of everyone that my car looked like it was "built before Wi-Fi existed." I laughed it off, but it stung.
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  • It got worse when money came into the equation. One night, we were all out for coffee, and I paid for everyone. It wasn't a big deal to me, I like doing small gestures like that. But after that, her friend seemed to expect it. We'd go out,
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  • she'd forget her wallet, or nudge my girlfriend with a smile like it was some inside joke that I'd cover her. The real crack in the wall came when my girlfriend told me me her friend had been saying I was "cheap" because I
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  • didn't want to split the cost of a random weekend trip they planned without me. I couldn't instantly drop $300 for a trip, I was broke. It bothered me because I'd been working hard to be smart with money.
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  • My parents didn't have a safety net for me, so every dollar I spent mattered. I wasn't just blowing cash around to look good. I was trying to build a stable life.
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  • Here's the twist, that trip they took, my girlfriend ended up paying for her friend the whole time because "she didn't have enough saved." The same friend who called me broke. Ironically, a month before, she had been bragging about buying a $200 Zara haul at the mall. And then some expensive makeup at Sephora.
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  • Here's the petty part: I decided from that day forward, I would never cover anything for her again. No coffee, no snacks, nothing. I got Fizz to track every cent I spent so there'd be no "oh I'll pay you back" nonsense. If she forgot her wallet, I'd politely say, "No worries, you can grab it next time" and order my stuff alone.
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  • She hates it. She's not used to me setting boundaries, and now she doesn't get a cent out of me. My girlfriend's noticed too, she said it's weird seeing her friend actually pay for her own things. Lmao
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  • Sometimes you don't need to fight someone to protect yourself. You just need to stop giving them access to the parts of you they can take advantage of.
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  • Mooching friends are either too rich to conceive the value of money or they're broke and trying to pretend not to be. This guy's girlfriend's best friend was no different than any other freeloader, deflecting attention away from herself so that she could get away with “forgetting her wallet" or demanding someone else pick up the bill. 

    Because when you're spoiled rotten for your whole life and expect other people to foot the bill, you probably forget how to be financially stable, leading you to a lifetime of fiscal dependency on the more responsible folks at your side.

  • harrywwc. ah, setting boundaries - it's funny, 'cause they want their boundaries honoured, but yours! the moment you set a boundary, you're a miserable tight- who is too cheap to spot 'friends' (or perhaps "fiends") a simple coffee/meal/road-trip.
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  • "Find some new friends…"

  • TheExaspera ⚫ Good for you! Maybe she'll just "find" some new, more naive, friends.
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  • Byte_Fantail For the longest time I was a broke jobless college student, I'd sell art now and then to pay for things I enjoyed and when I finally got a job it paid for books and there was never anything left over. I'd regularly have $7 in the bank for 4 days before I got paid $160 and it
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  • was usually gone by the end of payday. I remember I'd go out with friends and there was always someone that covered me, but it sucked. And then I got better jobs, and
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  • eventually I was able to cover other people. I was able to not have to check my balance before buying something, and now I can be the one to cover a friend's dinner when we go out.
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