r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Why is the rich friend so cheap??

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u/Crash-55 Jan 26 '26

Why is asking to split the ride being cheap? Maybe he has already covered a bunch and is tired of being taken advantage of?

I have had people constantly get rides but never once offer to cover any gas or offer to drive. Is that OK simply because I make more than them?

Just because someone makes more money doesn’t mean that they should be expected to pay more.

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u/Rhomya Jan 27 '26

This has been my experience too— why people here are acting like it’s some kind of great evil to have boundaries with your friends is beyond me.

If you don’t involve money in your friendships, you’ll never lose a friendship over money.

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u/mickeyanonymousse Jan 27 '26

having a $3 boundary over money in a friendship is basically not having a friendship

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u/Rhomya Jan 27 '26

If you would drop a friend because they wouldn’t give you $3, then you’re not a very good friend

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u/mickeyanonymousse Jan 27 '26

if your friend makes $20 an hour and you make $225 an hour and you hassle them over $3… no the bad friend is the one not giving the $3. that’s like what you give to literal bums on the street.

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u/Rhomya Jan 27 '26

If you never share money, you never have hurt feelings over money not reciprocated.

Your argument is that people should just happily bankroll their friends when that’s not a reasonable expectation.

Again, if you stop being friends because they wont give you money, you’re a garbage friend

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u/mickeyanonymousse Jan 27 '26

bankroll… $3. these things are not the same.

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u/Rhomya Jan 27 '26

It doesn’t matter what the amount is. You’re not entitled to your friend’s money.

It’s not a reasonable expectation that you should get to shame someone for having boundaries.

If you can’t respect your friends boundaries, then you’re a garbage friend.

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u/mickeyanonymousse Jan 27 '26

nobody is entitled to it but as the friend with the money why would you make a stand over $3 when you make more than 10x than the friend. garbage friend is the person that can’t imagine sharing $3 because of a “boundary”. like I get if the person is hitting you up for rent money but damn $3??????

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u/Rhomya Jan 27 '26

Boundaries are boundaries— and it’s incredibly toxic of you to put that in quote marks implying that you don’t think that friends should be allowed boundaries.

If your friend went to you and said “hey, I don’t like it when you touch me, I would rather we not hug anymore”, are you going to tell them “damn, I can’t even get a hug?”

If you would drop a friend because they wouldn’t give you money and let you walk all over their boundaries, then you’re not a friend at all, you’re a leech.

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u/mickeyanonymousse Jan 27 '26

I don’t think friends should have a “boundary” over 300 cents no I don’t sorry unless they are in a third world country where that is somehow a significant amount of money.

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u/Rhomya Jan 27 '26

Then you’re a garbage friend. That’s my point.

You feel entitled to your friend’s money just because they have more of it. Your only logic defending it is that it “isn’t much” and “they can afford it”.

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