So was he saying he didn’t need to be paid anymore to be his friend or the friendship money was past due and the account needed to be settled for the friendship to continue?
Or he said it because he was done waiting for his next pay check.
“We need to talk. Your parents haven’t paid the friendship money yet. Now I’m not an unreasonable person but…”
Subscriptions really are taking over the whole world.
Spoiler: he turned out to be Elon Musk
Fake or not, pretty sure this happens from time to time.
Yeah, I remember reading something, like 20ish years ago, about a woman from a wealthy family in NYC, that is a wildly paranoid adult, because her mom basically paid everyone to be her friend, planned, and paid for, their social events, and did so until she found out in her mid 20s. It wasn’t even because she was unpopular and lonely. This started when she was a toddler. Her mom just wanted complete control of everyone she interacted with, and what they did, as much as she possibly could. When she found out she just mentally imploded.
I went to a kids party in middle school. I was the only one to come. His parents gave me like $40 on my way out. As a kid I had no idea what the fuck was going on so I just took the money.
Doesn’t matter had cake.
I’ve never understood this obsession with massive, flashy, expensive birthday parties with hired entertainers and dozens of invitations. Is it an American thing? Do other cultures have this?
Hired clowns or magicians aren’t really a thing outside of movies, afaik.
One or two big birthday parties growing up is pretty common. Not every year. I had one for my 16th.
I (non-american but western country) had “large” parties way back in primary school (around 5 to 10 y.o.), because at that point everyone was just little kids and so there were no cliques or anything like that, so it would be impolite not to invite your whole class - but after that point no, it would usually be like 5 people at maximum for a bit of a chill hangout.
massive, flashy, expensive birthday parties with hired entertainers and dozens of invitations
It just sounds like they invited their whole class. That’s dozens of invitations for sure but doesn’t really make it anything else.
