Woman cancels $1,200 group vacation rental booking after friends ignore her requests to pay their share

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• AITJ for canceling a group vacation rental after nobody paid me their share and I was stuck with the full bill

  

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• Endless promises floated in the group chat. The casual “I’ll send it tonight” turns into the spiritual “maybe someday.” Someone even hearted a payment request like a digital head‑pat, as if approval counted toward the total.

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• When she gave a simple deadline, they acted like she was overreacting. People who forget rent and phone bills suddenly become sensitive to tone when reminded about money. But what really stings here isn’t the cash, it’s the assumption. That quiet belief that she’d carry the cost just to avoid being called difficult. It’s not cruelty or malice. It’s a kind of sleepy entitlement that hides behind friendship, the I’ll‑pay‑you‑back version of clutter left in someone else’s house.

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• Canceling the trip wasn’t dramatic. It was the only realistic choice after a month of dodging and deflection. She drew a boundary and watched everyone recoil like they’d witnessed a felony instead of fairness. What they really wanted was her patience, not her partnership.

• There’s something bleakly funny about how money makes people show their priorities. They’ll spend hours planning outfits and playlists, but not two minutes to transfer their share. Responsibility never ruins friendships. It only exposes which ones were running on borrowed generosity.

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• In the end, she didn’t cancel the rental to be petty. She just stopped financing other people’s irresponsibility. The group wanted a vacation. She wanted respect. One of those is nonrefundable.

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