Friend lends car to long-time friend, and he gets an $85 fine, after the car owner asks for the money back, he hits back with a $22 request for the gas tank he filled: ‘I never ONCE asked him to put gas in that car’

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María Cetra • Writer
Sep 9, 2026 1:00 PM EDT

Sometimes there is no need for a big thing to learn that your friend is not the good kind.


Is hard to end a friendship, but sometimes you just need to accept it and do it. It's hard and sad, but it's the best thing. After a while, you learn to realize when a friend is not the good kind before stuff like the one in the story below happens. You learn to notice the signs. To realize when a friend is actually just an entitled person who loves to use people for their own benefit. And those people should be as far away from you as physically possible. They don't deserve your time, let alone your friendship.

Cutting ties is extremely important when someone is using you. This person who has wronged you will do it again. To avoid it, you will have to be the bad guy and cut any form of link you two have. End the friendship! There is no need for you to maintain a relationship with someone who is so entitled that they only see you for the benefits you can provide to them. Better friends are out there, trust me. Ditch the bed ones!

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  • 01

    I'm not sure I would have lent my car to my friend. I'm not that trusting with people, not even friends!

    My friend borrowed my car on the 29th to move some furniture into his new place. We've known each other since college so I said yes without really thinking about it. He had it from about 10 in the morning until the evening. A parking ticket turned up in my mail last week. $85, permit zone (about 3 blocks from his building), dated the afternoon he had it. I sent him a photo of it and he said "you should have told me that street needs a permit." He isn't wrong, I never mentioned it and I had no id
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    A person filling up a gas tank for their car. Representation only,
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    A person filling up a gas tank for their car. 

    Representation only,

  • 03

    If he got the car lent to him, then he's not only responsible for the car's tank after use. But also for the tickets he gets while driving said car.

    asked if he could cover it and he went quiet for a day. What came back wasn't about the ticket at all. He sent me a request for $22.40 with a photo of a gas receipt attached, for filling the tank while he had it, plus a message saying he'd been meaning to send it for a week and thought we should "settle everything at once." I never ONCE asked him to put gas in that car. He topped it up on his own and didn't mention it to me until the day I brought up the $85. Was that supposed to have been a bil
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  • 04

    I agree! I wouldn't either.

    I told him I'm not sending $22 to somebody who owes me $85
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    A gas station.
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    A gas station.

  • 06

    Totally! Filling up the gas tank is the minimum after you lend him your personal car.

    cat-pernicus He borrows your truck to move, putting gas in is the least he could do as a thank you, and the parking fee is his problem, he's the one who parked it and should've checked where he was parking
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  • 07

    Exactly! The person using the car is the one responsible for any tickets you may get. After all, he was the one driving the car.

    WasWawa NTA. I suggest something like, "I'm really kind of surprised that you would think that I'm responsible for buying the gas that you used when you borrowed my car. It is common sense not to park the car where you are likely to get a violation, and while you are using the vehicle, you are responsible for any violations. Also, it's common courtesy to return a borrowed vehicle with a full tank of gas in appreciation for being allowed to borrow it in the first place. Not only am I not going to
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  • 08

    Of course not! A true friend would have paid the ticket without a second thought.

    you parking my car where it doesn't belong, and suggest you rent a car for any future needs." This guy is not your friend.
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  • 09

    Exactly! That's what I said!

    courtneyisfakeaf NTA He should put gas in for using it, AND pay for the ticket
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  • 10

    Basic common courtesy, never explained better.

    jgardner827 Nta and Imao it's basic common courtesy to return it with either a filled or same level gas tank
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  • 11

    I wouldn't have lent it in the first place...

    ThrowRA_VeiledInVice My friend borrowed my car... He's not your friend. He's an AH.
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  • 12

    If you want to avoid the drama, then you need to pay for the ticket and end the friendship.

    Main_Insect_3144 Why are you in charge of informing him of the parking restrictions near his apartment? And he wants you to pay for the gas for his move? NTA I would pay the ticket and call it quits on your friendship. What a j. Tell him next time he can rent a Uhaul and see how much that costs. Probably more than the $107.40 total for his stupidity.
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  • 13

    This could work, maybe he would agree to send at least something for the ticket.

    JackB041334 Tell him to send $60 and call it a day. I wouldn't ever lend him anything again though
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  • 14

    The friend is extremely entitled. Nobody would expect this kind of thing. At least no decent person would.

    Otherwise Turnip7135 Wait, I'm sorry: his argument is that, as part of lending him your car, you should have researched all the streets in the general area of his new apartment and let him know which ones need permits and which don't?? And that, because you chose not to act as his personal parking-law concierge, you are therefore responsible for paying his parking ticket?? This friend is TRASH. NTA.
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  • 15

    It could have been something even more expensive that taught you he was a bad friend.

    TheStanker That ticket may s k out loud, but it's a cheap lesson about who this friend really is.
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  • 16

    It's his responsibility to check the parking restrictions of the place he's driving to. This friend is just too entitled to understand that.

    NaturesVivid Pictures Can he read? Because wherever he parked it would most likely have signs posted. It's not like you know where he was going to park it. I would assume by the entrance of where he was moving, not three blocks from it, that's a long way to carry stuff. There's got to be a loading zone right outside the apartment building or wherever it was that he was going. Any tickets he got he is responsible for while he's using your vehicle and filling up your gas tank, which $22 is an incr
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  • 17

    End the friendship!

    That would have cost them a lot more than $22 or even the $80 for the ticket. So he owes you the ticket you don't owe him anything. He's just being a j know he's not a good friend. so now you
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