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To think my friend is treating me like her maid

928 replies

Grabhands · 24/08/2023 19:35

For context, this is a friend who I have known for years, haven't seen since before COVID. We booked and are on a 7 day all in beach holiday in the Med.

Meals are buffet service, tea service and cakes etc at certain times from a pool bar and a bar where you can go and get alcoholic drinks etc. At meal times waiters will bring you water for the table and you go to bar for anything else. Bar a few mins walk.

At every single meal we have had since arriving, she tries to send me to the bar to get her a drink, if I am going anyway absolutely fine, otherwise get your own!

She also keeps taking food from my plate to try it, with fingers , and then says can you go and get me some of that.

When I get desert, she gives me a list and asks me to bring back plates of various things.

Tea, she doesn't want to go to bar to get cakes, in case she misses some sun so again even though I don't want anything asks me to go.

I know its petty, and I'm usually easy going but after 3 days I have just said you go, you have legs too, and please stop taking food from my plate.

She is now very offended and huffing and puffing!

Am I being a cow?

OP posts:
rookiemere · 25/08/2023 15:19

But OP poor friend is going to starve as she cannot possibly be expected to use her own arms and legs to feed herself from the buffet.

One can only hope that some other tables leave scraps for her to forage from.

Enjoy the rest of your holiday CakeSmile.

REignbow · 25/08/2023 15:22

This women has taken advantage of your kindness and is not a friend.

I’m pleased that you are moving hotel to enjoy the rest of your holiday in peace. I would leave a note or send a message and actually spell it out in regards to her entitlement and laziness.

TomatoSandwiches · 25/08/2023 15:24

Glad that you'll get time to enjoy yourself op.
She is obviously completely unaware of herself and poor behaviour, I'd have chocked on my pizza calling you selfish.

billy1966 · 25/08/2023 15:25

She is not a project for the OP to fix.

The OP has told her more than once and yet she has continued with her entitled rudeness.

I think the OP is 100% to bail and leave her to her deeply annoying behaviour.

speakout · 25/08/2023 15:28

I voted YABU.

Your friend may try to treat you like a maid, totally up to you if you want to act like one.

Olika · 25/08/2023 15:31

I hope the new hotel is fab and you manage to chill 😎

Toenailz · 25/08/2023 15:37

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ImABox · 25/08/2023 15:37

Fab for booking another hotel. If she had just once got you a towel or helped out you cold maybe have reasoned with her, but I just don’t understand how people can be that self absorbed. It’s not even as if she’s trying to get you to pay when it AI!

ChampagneLassie · 25/08/2023 15:38

Bravo for moving hotels. Enjoy the next few days

DuploTrain · 25/08/2023 15:39

I’m very much looking forward to the other thread of “my friend has been off with me and left halfway through a holiday for no reason at all” 😁

LaurieFairyCake · 25/08/2023 15:40

I can't decide if this thread is weirder than the bloke sitting outside his own house waiting to be let in

It's a close call but there are SO MANY FREAKS in the world 😳😂

LoveSunHateHeat · 25/08/2023 15:41

DuploTrain · 25/08/2023 15:39

I’m very much looking forward to the other thread of “my friend has been off with me and left halfway through a holiday for no reason at all” 😁

Me too 🤫

MysteryBelle · 25/08/2023 15:41

Mehmeh22 · 24/08/2023 19:54

Just say well it's my turn to relax now...mines a cocktail

I think this is the best way to handle it too. Like “hey, it’s your turn to go get me something, I’d like bourbon straight up, you’ve been running me ragged” 😂 that way she wouldn’t get offended (although who knows). I can’t believe she is so unaware of what she’s doing, ordering you around like that 😄

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 25/08/2023 15:43

👏👏👏

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Duckskitbank · 25/08/2023 15:44

Can you leave a whole cucumber in her bed before you go?

JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain · 25/08/2023 15:46

I've read some outstanding examples of CFery on here over the years but she smashes them all!

JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain · 25/08/2023 15:46

Duckskitbank · 25/08/2023 15:44

Can you leave a whole cucumber in her bed before you go?

😂😂

ThereIbledit · 25/08/2023 15:49

I can't believe CF friend has carried on her CFery even though OP has said repeatedly that she's not okay with it - CFF must have the hide of a rhino!

shelbaby · 25/08/2023 15:50

No ur way too polite and patient. I'd have been telling her from the off, no it's ur turn I went to the bar last time. Eh are ur legs not working go get ur own, I'm not a waitress and it's my holiday too.

Probably last holiday I'd go with her if she's behaving like that!

MysteryBelle · 25/08/2023 15:50

“You’re making me feel like a maid or someone to fetch things for you all the time. What would you think if I did that to you?”

So so weird.

RampantIvy · 25/08/2023 15:54

Haretest · 25/08/2023 15:01

How is moving rooms going to be less awkward than just talking to her properly?

She has already spoken to her, several times. It has fallen on deaf ears.

Have you read all of the OP's updates?

Haretest · 25/08/2023 15:58

Yes @RampantIvy but OP hasn't really spoke to her. She's said passive aggressive things (which I would do) and declined to go get things.

She hasn't said 'no friend I'm not getting you those things and can you please stop treating my like your servant. Why do you expect me to wait in you"

Fannyfiggs · 25/08/2023 16:03

Theeee absolute AUDACITY of her calling YOU selfish. Never mind leaving a cucumber in her bed, leave some out of date, smelly, soggy prawns in her suitcase.

I would also be willing to donate to a gofundme to pay for another flight for you so you don't need to see this CF ever again 🤣

AliceOlive · 25/08/2023 16:05

Grabhands · 25/08/2023 09:23

She is lazy and selfish at least on this holiday

I have just said , I am here to relax and not keep doing her errands , she needs to pull her weight for the next few days

She pursed her lips into a cats bum and stropped off, as she has left her room key card behind by mistake I suspect she will be back shortly though

Head phones and ereader time

OP did tell her directly, @Haretest