Real Life MMD: Should I pay the extra money?

nightsdawn

I cannot believe that you even need to ask the question. Your friend is now most definitely your ex friend.

Please repay him the full amount you borrowed, and offer your humble apology!

masonsuk

Definitely pay the rest! Well done on finding the voucher, but you would share this benefit with your friend usually, so you should do this now also. Your friend has done you a favour by lending you the money, so do a favour back by helping them save some money with a voucher you have got for free.

Taffy99

You portray yourself as a poor excuse for a friend.

You borrowed money off a friend in good faith, pay them back in the same way.

Share your good fortune with your friends, don't take advantage of them.

Mike_Watson

Of course you should, you owed £X and that's the amount you should pay back.

[Deleted User]

wisemark wrote: »

No, your friend agreed to accept the food at that restaurant instead of the money. So what's the problem? He got his food. It doesn't matter how you paid for it. If you had promised a particular restaurant and then taken him to a cheaper one, I could understand him, but he got what he wanted. You could have paid in full and used your discount voucher at a later date, so what's the difference? He is just being greedy trying to benefit from your voucher. He would have been perfectly happy if you hadn't told him about the voucher.

I completely agree with wisemark. He got £x of food, in lieu of £x of money - it doesn't matter how it was paid for.

chocky

Pay the friend the full amount you owe them. Years ago, some friends lent me the money for a secondhand car. Two months later I was in a position to repay all that they had lent me and to show my gratitude I bought them theatre tickets for a show I know they wanted to see.

ronangel

Give them the money you owe pay for dinner & leave the camera + recording equipment at home on this occasion. regular readers will understand.:)

Casiopeia_2

I would pay up, my friends are more important than money.

quartzy

Yes, pay the money your friend is not stupid, imagine she done that to you how would you feel?

Eco_Miser

As a few people have said, paying for the meal, which you both would have been having anyway, clears the debt, however much you actually had to pay.
However, had the debt not existed, when you went for the meal, and found a 50% voucher, would you have used that voucher only against your meal, or would you have used it against both meals, thereby saving your friend half of his share of the bill as well?
If the first, you're not much of a friend, but owe nothing; if the second you owe your friend half the cost of his meal.