Podcast host Amber Nelson, an American woman wrote to her Twitter followers in distrust. She couldn’t accept as true when a friend charged her for a casual dinner at home.
She added that her friend informally mentioned wanting money for the pasta she was serving during the dinner and then sent her an instant payment request a few hours later for $20. The tweet went viral in a matter of hours and received thousands of reactions slamming the strange behaviour.
Amber said in a follow-up tweet that this makes her not want to accept offerings in the future and many came forward to validate Amber’s shock.
One of her Twitter followers said that it is beyond weird and another one wrote that she is literally aghast at how fiscally irresponsible you have to be to make vodka pasta for two people at $20 per head.
But others chose a more violent approach. One of them wrote that this would be her super villain origin story. Someone said that you should ask them to show you the permit or license for their restaurant and if they say they don’t have one, tell them that you’re obligated to report them to the health department for running an unlicensed food service business.
But others were just confused how the request came about and said that is odd and awkward and dishonourable and that how can someone even bring it up even?
Amber’s experience also brought forward a series of anecdotes showcasing people exhibiting similar ‘bizarre’ behaviour.
One man replied that he has invited someone over because he was cooking dinner and told them to bring some drinks and they charged him for the drinks the day after. Another one wrote that he went to a dinner party with lobster once and after dinner, the host asked everyone for $75 each and it did not go over well.
But such experiences are regrettably not limited to dinner parties only. Someone said that her friend’s jazz-singer sister got married and sold tickets to her wedding and expected immediate family to buy tickets as well because she was going to sing at the reception.
