25-year-old woman backs out of $550 music festival, expects friend to cover her half of the cost: 'She bailed last minute'

Owing a friend money is never a good idea. If you can avoid it at any cost, you should. You don't want to mix money and friendship and end up losing someone over a missed payment. But the question of money is going to come up over the course of a friendship. If you're friends with someone, odds are, you like to do things with them. You want to go on outings, see shows, travel, and eat dinners out. And those things tend to cost money. If both of you are in the same boat financially and you agree to split costs 50/50, this is the easiest way to do it while avoiding drama.

But this still raises the question of when to pay and what happens if one of you cancels or backs out? It's not always so simple then. That's what happened in this story, where a pair of friends was left in a sticky situation after one of them decided she couldn't afford a concert ticket she had previously committed to.

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Instead of owning up to her indecision and managing the tickets, she left it up to her friend. But when he found that he couldn't regain all of what he had spent, he looked to her for a little assistance. Then, he reached out to the internet to see if what he was doing was above board. Read on to see what commenters had to say.
WIBTA if I made my friend pay the difference?

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Commenters agreed he was being more generous than he need to be.

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