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Originally Posted by Grunt

Sometimes I like to treat my friends when we go out for beers, or for lunch, or whatever. When I throw parties I always have a boatload of alcohol onhand that everyone is welcome to enjoy. I like to think that small tokens like this pretty much always even themselves out. I do try to remain cognisant of the times when my friends have paid for me so that I can get them back, but it's obviously not a hard tally that's maintained since, as I said, I think it all evens out in the end.

I recently went on a road trip with a friend of mine out to Vancouver and we agreed to split the gas. I paid for all the gas on my credit card for easy tallying at the end. Fast forward to today... it's been over a month since our trip and I've been lazy about asking my friend for the money, but today I remembered. I originally thought he owed me $100, but it turns out that he only owes me $80.

His response (over messenger): "whew... so.... can I knock off $15 from that for flat of beer I bought?"

In my mind, it's completely ridiculous and inappropriate for him to suggest this. To me this is being really cheap, nitpicky, and kind of insulting. On our trip, and throughout our friendship, I've certainly paid for beer or other things for him and never dreamed of asking him for repayment. His comment made me feel like going through my credit card statement and pointing out small purchases that we could also split, since we're getting down to the nitty gritty.

Instead though, I just said "lol... I guess so..." to avoid petty arguments about ridiculous things like $15, and since I'm a nice guy / sucker.

My question to you Calgarypuck is: Is his request for the $15 completely normal and standard, or out of line?

Unfortunately everyone has the ###### friend whos tighter than a knats ass.. I get pretty choked when its petty crap like $15. Or they phone and the first thing outta their mouth, do you have that 10 bucks? Personally I think its sad and pathetic.