A man on Reddit who canceled his friend’s invitation to his annual Academy Awards party after the friend broke an expensive bottle of whiskey and refused to pay for it didn’t do anything wrong. may want to adjust his priorities, other Reddit users decided.
An individual with the username “InternationalList333” asked others about the situation in a March 8 post (“Am I the A–hole”) on the subreddit AITA, with about 2,000 comments in a short period of time. Approximately 4,500 responses were collected.
In the post, the writer asked, “Wasn’t it wrong not to invite my friend to the Oscar party because of the bottle?” [whiskey]The 29-year-old said he and his 27-year-old wife Kate host an Academy Awards party every year and have done so for five years.
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“We dress up, bet on the winner and eat popcorn,” he said. “This is a fun tradition that many of my friends look forward to every year, one of whom is his college friend ‘Rick’ (28M).”
The Reddit poster said his wife “loves” whiskey and received a gift of an expensive bottle from her father before a party last year. According to the Redditor, the bottle cost $175.
This man wrote on Reddit that his wife loves whiskey, but she’s never been able to drink it because a friend accidentally broke a nice bottle her father bought her. (St. Petersburg)
However, “Kate” had just given birth and was still breastfeeding, so she hadn’t opened the bottle yet.
“At last year’s watch party, [the friend] Rick was wasted,” the man wrote in the post.
“While reaching for something else in our liquor cabinet, he accidentally dropped the bottle and broke it. When he sobered up, he apologized profusely. I was angry. But since the whiskey belonged to Kate, she forgave me, so I decided to drop the topic.” ”
“He was surprised by our questions.”
InternationalList333 said his friend Rick was the only one who got drunk at the party.
“Also, we selected our drinks and placed them on the kitchen counter. Rick went into the cabinet to look for a bottle of liquor (without asking me first) and he was the only one to do so.” the man wrote.
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A few weeks after the party, InternationalList333 and his wife asked Rick how he was going to replace the broken whiskey bottle.
“He was shocked by our questions and said he didn’t mean it. Rick has always done that. have money problems I’ve been struggling to pay my rent for a while now,” the man added on Reddit.
“He said it was unreasonable for us to expect him to pay for a $175 bottle of whiskey because we knew of his condition.”
A Reddit user (not pictured) said he uninvited a friend to his annual Oscar viewing party, only to later wonder if it was a mistake to do so. He writes that he is “starting to feel guilty” about it. (St. Petersburg)
InternationalList333 gave Rick an ultimatum: if he didn’t replace the bottle by next year’s party, he would no longer be invited.
“At the time, he agreed,” he wrote. “Throughout the year, I asked him several times about his savings, and he always said he was closer to his goal.”
Apparently this turned out to be a lie.
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“Last week, I asked Rick about it again, and he confessed that he hadn’t actually saved any money to buy the bottle,” the Reddit poster wrote. “So I kept my promise and didn’t invite him to the party.”
This seemed to upset Rick and his girlfriend, who insisted that it was a “drunken mistake” that broke the bottle.
“So I kept my promise and didn’t invite him to the party.”
“They also claim that I am unsympathetic and entitled to expect Rick to pay for a new bottle,” he said.
“Kate is on my side, but I’m worried we’re being too harsh. I don’t think we are, but I’m starting to feel guilty as Sunday approaches,” wrote InternationalList333 .
The friend confessed that she had intended to replace the whiskey bottle she accidentally broke last year, but couldn’t save up the $175 to replace it. (St. Petersburg)
Fox News Digital has reached out to InternationalList333 for additional comment and updates.
In the AITA subreddit, users can reply to posts and post comments such as “NTA” (“not an A–hole”), “YTA” (“you are an A–hole”), “NAH” (” ”). There’s no “A-holes Here”) or “ESH” (“Everyone Sucks Here”).
Users can upvote answers they find helpful and downvote answers they don’t.
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There was quite a bit of discussion in the nearly 2,000 replies to this post, but most people agree that InternationalList333 was wrong to ask his friend to buy a new bottle to replace the one he broke. He said it wasn’t, but it wouldn’t be worth losing the bottle. Friendship for this.
“If you’ve known him for a while and we’ve been good friends ever since we met, I’d ignore it.”
“NTA. No use or not, he broke a gift a father gave his daughter and lied that he replaced it. But that being said, if you’ve known him for a while and he If we’ve been good friends all the time we’ve known each other, I’ll leave it that way,” Reddit user ‘rafaelvandercan’ wrote in the top upvoted comment.
“Friendship is worth more than a few hundred dollars unintentionally lost,” the same user added.
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Another top commenter agreed, saying that since Rick has broken things before, he should be allowed to return to his home until he “replaces things or pays for them and makes amends.” (User 7hr0wn)
“It doesn’t matter that it was a liquor bottle. It doesn’t matter that Rick was drunk and broke it. This is very basic guest etiquette,” the user said.
Reddit users are divided over whether it’s appropriate to not invite a friend to a party after he refused to replace a bottle of whiskey he broke in the house. (St. Petersburg)
The same commenter added, “If you break something in someone’s house, whether it was by accident, on purpose, or drunk, you did the right thing.” Ta.
Another user had a different take on the situation.
“While this is clearly an unpopular opinion, ESH [everyone sucks here]. “Rick’s apology seems really lame and shows almost no remorse,” user here4judgment said.
According to this same user, hosting a party comes with the risk of something breaking, especially if alcohol is being served.
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“As I understand it, it was honestly a drunken mistake rather than the result of completely reckless behavior,” here4judgment said.
“Rick is struggling financially and it’s just a bottle of booze,” he added.
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The friend said, “He should apologize for not properly apologizing in the first place, and for promising to replace the bottle even though he didn’t mean to.You knew he was having a hard time making alcohol.” You should apologize for chasing him around with a bottle of booze.” The goals are the same,” the commenter concluded.
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