AITA For Finally Snapping At My Friend Who Thinks Sunday Dinner Is His Personal Free Buffet?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- AITA For Finally Snapping At My Friend Who Thinks Sunday Dinner Is His Personal Free Buffet?
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AITA For Finally Snapping At My Friend Who Thinks Sunday Dinner Is His Personal Free Buffet?
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For months, my friends and I had a Sunday dinner tradition where everyone contributed-except for one person: Johntue. He never brought food, never cooked, never even offered to clean up. But every week, without fail, he showed up with an empty plate and an appetite that could put a competitive eater to shame. No rule, no hint, no ounce of shame stopped him from devouring more than his fair share while giving nothing in return.
When we finally enforced a new rule-no contribution, no food-he found a loophole. He started arriving after dinner, pretending to just be stopping by, only to swoop in and clean out the leftovers. He even raided the fridge when no one was looking, eating cold wings straight from the container like a food thief raccoon. The final straw? He stole a cheesecake that someone had been saving, finishing it off in secret while they were in the bathroom. That was it. We had had enough.
We came up with a plan. We invited him to a nice restaurant, a place that wasn’t cheap, and watched as he went all out-ordering three appetizers, a massive entrée, and dessert, clearly expecting someone else to foot the bill. When the check came, he stood up like he always did, ready to pull his usual disappearing act. But this time, we were prepared.
When we told him we were all paying for our own meals, his face went pale. He tried every excuse-he "forgot his wallet," he would "pay us back later," he even tried guilt-tripping us by saying "I thought we were friends." None of it worked. After realizing he was cornered, he magically pulled out his wallet and paid, much to everyone’s satisfaction.
Then, just as he thought it was over, someone brought up all the meals he had mooched off us in the past. One by one, we listed everything he had taken without contributing. He tried to protest, but at this point, no one was letting it slide. With no way out, he begrudgingly Venmo’d everyone back for the food he had eaten over the months.
That was the last time we ever had to deal with Johntue’s freeloading. The next Sunday? He didn’t show up. And honestly? None of us missed him.
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i don't understand how people let that dude slide. The first time he filled his plate without contributing anything i would have called him out.
I wouldn’t have let him in the door if he hadn’t brought any food with him😠
What do you want to bet he's also a food thief where he works.
When he turns up, why do you even let him in?
Just lock the door so he can't just walk in, if he does get through the door simply tell him to leave. This story had a very simple fix
The descriptions in this had me smiling. Very funny.
Just tell him you not invited anymore 😒 why be so passive
I would've been so petty. I would've made wings just for him, loading them with habanero saurce. Bet bro would never come back after that 😂😂😂
He would have been thrown out from our group probably the second time he tried it with us!
And I’d have a little Prayer Meeting with the ones who took up for him.
This is a joke. Tell John, he is no longer invited to the group meals, because he does not contribute and he eats most of the food that other people brought.
No sympathy. Don't let him in. Tell him to go away, absolute no contact
Don't understand......while he was eating his steak he was eying his appetizer! Don't you eat your appetizer first? Oh well, to each his own.
Just don't invite him or give a specific time for the gathering, but when he shows up state, oh, we thought you weren't coming we've already eaten. Hence, none for you it's all gone.😂
As soon as he appears turn him around & tell him to leave you’re not wanted nor invited.
Hes a moucher lock the door
Put laxitive in his food.😂
If you put laxatives in the food he's eating at your place, be aware that it'll be your toilet he's going to block and your house that'll stink for hours.
Why do people in Reddit stories do things the hard way? 😂
This was sooooo long and painful.
Agreed.
I stopped having sympathy for the group when the OP just stood up and left dinner without saying anything!
Playing it at x1.25 speed helps. 🤷🏾♀️😂
Why ya'll keep inviting him?
He is not a friend..... he's a user. He doesn't think of you all as anything but a meal ticket. I'd leave him off the meals list and lock your doors so he can't sneak in.
Yall are fake friends to allow it to go on this long, create an entire group chat without any confrontation towards his behavior and the negligence of holding him accountable for the First time.
Do not have unspoken rules!
Speak up or step out!
Do not expect people to read your minds! All of you need to set rules and guidelines! If he doesn’t lessen then kick him out! It sounds like he is from a different culture that thinks everyone owes him! I am guessing he is a selfish individual who might have narcissistic traits!
Just don't invite him
Do they not know how to lock the door?
There is nothing believable about this story. Obviously, John is not a good person so why would anyone want to hang with him? Also, $20 for cinnamon buns AND wings?! Yeah, no.
More like 40.00dollars even in a small town like Hanford.
At my local grocery store, you can go through the bakery and definitely get a package of cinnamon buns for under $10 and then go through the premade grocery stuff and pick up chicken all made. Or you can get a freezer bag of wings at Walmart that are pretty goodfor under 20 bucks. You could definitely get those for under 20 bucks anywhere.
maybeee this guy got a tapeworm😅
Why didn't they lock the doors?
If that was my cheesecake, he would have opened his wallet and paid me for it right then and there! You can actually eat an entire cheesecake within a matter of minutes without throwing it back up like that? Just how big is this person anyway to eat 10 lbs. of candy within a day! I like candy but any normal person would have gotten sick from doing this!
Lose this friend.
This story is very long-winded, and most of it was unnecessary and took away from the plot. It reads like a high schooler's short story.
What's with the name Chu or Chew. It appears in many a story. How about Chan or Shuiy or Wing?
Why did you keep letting him join you?? Hes a mooch not a friend, so you have no choice but to shut him down.. So after first update: I'm wondering if your all doormats?? I cannot watch a glutton eat like this!! I would have said something after the first time, or told the other friends Im no longer going to be involved in the sunday get togethers..
He was clearly bulimic
how big was this guy?
Fake story and not well written. In the real world, real people wouldn't keep letting him in. You know, you are allowed to refuse to let unwelcome visitors come in. It's very easy: Keep the door closed and locked. When an unwelcome visitor shows up you keep the door closed and locked, and you talk to them through a window, telling them that they weren't invited. Maybe that sounds rude, but it's a whole lot more rude to invade someone else's gathering, and even worse, to eat anything that isn't nailed down. In the real world, if a jerk gets in because someone forgot to close and lock the door, you IMMEDIATELY escort them out, telling them that it's a private gathering by invitation ONLY! If the jerk demands an invite, tell them point blank that freeloaders aren't welcome. It's sometimes absolutely necessary to be very blunt with jerks.
Man I'm not going to lie this story had me laughing so hard at the poster and their friends because it's so funny that they want to blame the main front of the story for being the problem but yet they're enabling his behavior yet they keep inviting him yet they don't continue to see something about his eating issue that he's clearly struggling with for such a long time until the poster decided to stop and start talking shit to the strand and even then it was too late for that because not only was the friendly too far gone in their eating addiction because the number one thing that prove this was when the friend was eating those wings straight out of the fridge so in all honesty of anybody is the asshole here it really is the poster and his friends cuz instead of getting this person some help and hitting them with the reality that they have a problem they instead treat them like shit but still keep inviting them to cookouts and dinners and parties and stuff just to make it sound like they're just using him to entertain themselves by blaming him for being somebody that clearly needs help
The reality is that this is another example of poorly written fiction.
Yeah I can see it because have anybody really cared about their friend they wouldn't be coming to the internet bitching about the easy habits they would try to see if they can find a way to get them help or keep them coming out but here we are with somebody just sounding like they're more in the wrong than the person they're writing about
While Jonu's behavior was clearly inconsiderate, the way the group handled the situation seems overly harsh. Instead of setting clear expectations earlier, they let resentment build up, leading to unnecessary tension and drama. Communication could've solved this long before it reached that point.
The guy is just selfish. There’s nothing about his behavior that would be acceptable according to a decent moral compass.
They should've been frim from the beginning! But it seems he is bulimic and not to excuse him, but he probably can't help his excess food consumption, and of course it's not right for him to be a mooch!
... that's not how the ED works at all...
lol $20 for cinnamon buns and wings? These AI stories are soooo off with how much stuff costs
Why did the friends let this go on for so long ?
If you bought them from a bakery or someplace like Cinnabon they could, especially if they bought a dozen or so.