'Your lack of finances is not our concern': Dinner party guest breaks trinket bowl, refuses to replace it when hosts demand $1200 payment

There are few more embarrassing yet common social faux pas than accidentally breaking something that somebody else owns. Even when the event was pretty much unavoidable, it is hard not to feel careless and dumb as you take responsibility for ruining the property of a friend or acquaintance.

What makes this event even more stressful, though, is anticipating how the other person is going to react to the breakage. This can be dependent on more obvious factors like its value or meaning to them, but also their personalities and how they otherwise feel about you. In some cases, people are willing to let bygones be bygones, and in others, the issue becomes an argument that can break even the strongest of relationships. The awkwardness is only amped up when you don't know the person who owns the broken object that well, which can lead to some unpleasant surprises in the aftermath.

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AITA for refusing to immediately replace an item I broke?

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One woman had to come to terms with this after she accidentally broke a trinket bowl at the house of her partner's friends, after it had been on the edge of a counter she was walking past to go to the restroom.
When she apologized, the couple initially declined to let her pay, but then backtracked after a few days and requested she replace it with a $1500 price tag attached.
She told them that she didn't have the money to replace the item, and they asked her to open a new credit card to cover the cost. She wanted to know if her response had been unreasonable.
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Everyone else was on her side.

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