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Judge me for asking the group chat to stop tagging me in every restaurant poll?

There are fourteen people. Every Friday someone drops a poll with eleven pin-drops. I eat at 6 because of a class. I asked, once, to be left off the poll and told the plan after. They said I was 'not a team player about tacos.' I muted the thread. Someone screenshotted the mute.

Bench0 votes

JMS-1113 / Friends4 days left

Judge me for selling the extra concert ticket instead of offering it?

Four of us bought tickets. One dropped out a week prior. I held the extra for two days and asked the group who wanted it at face. Silence. I listed it. It sold for $20 over face because the site adds fees I did not control. I offered the extra $20 to the group chat as a credit toward nachos. They said I should have waited until the day of, that a friend of a friend would have gone, and that profit on a friend's cancellation is ugly. I still have the $20 in Venmo as 'nachos.' No one has taken it.

Bench65 votes

JMS-1049 / Friends4 days left

Judge me for uninviting a plus-one I have never met

I am throwing a 40-person birthday dinner. Headcount is the invoice. My friend asked to bring 'Sam from climbing.' I said the room is tight. They said Sam already bought a train ticket. I said I am sorry about the ticket. I did not add a chair. They posted in our group that I 'only love people I can seat.' Sam did not come. My friend came late, left early, and Venmo'd me $0 on a $62 prix fixe I had already covered as host. I would like to know if a ticket I did not authorize is my problem.

Bench63 votes

JMS-1031 / FriendsVerdict entered

Judge me for naming the group chat after the friend who never pays

Four of us eat out. One of us, Cal, forgets their wallet in a way that has lasted three years. I renamed our chat from 'Thursday' to 'Cal's IOU.' It was up for six hours. Someone screenshotted it into a different chat. Cal saw it. Cal paid their last three dinners in cash, in ones, on the table, without looking at me. The chat is called Thursday again. I am still the person who renamed it.

Bench96 votes

GuiltyVerdict entered

JMS-1106 / FriendsVerdict entered

Judge me for leaving the group chat after the oil pitch?

A college friend started selling drops. First it was a story. Then a voice note. Then a calendar invite called 'abundance hour.' I muted. They unmuted me in a side chat with three other people from the dorm and said I was 'blocking blessings.' I left the main group. I sent a private text: I love you, I will not buy this, please do not put me in a funnel. They posted a screenshot of my text, cropped to look colder, in the remaining chat. Two people DM'd me that I was harsh. I have not gone back.

Bench63 votes

Not GuiltyVerdict entered

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