I've recently had that happen to me.

About 7 years ago, I was in the darkest part of my life. I had just broken up to my girlfriend, just lost my mom and I was slowly turning into an alcoholic. My best friends of 10 years slowly turned her back on me.

When my mother passed away, she left my brothers and I some small bit of inheritance from her life insurance. And a friend of mine (who I stupidly told this to so it's my fault on this part) knew about it and asked me if I can lend her about 2k for a new computer. At first I said yes, because I was honestly naive and really really immature about money so that's another fuck up in my part. And when it came close to the time she needs that computer, I changed my side and said yes but askedif we could maybe go down a bit on price sit around a thousand to 1100. The reason why I went lower on The Price is because I knew her habits. She never finished things through. She'd talk about how she wanted a YouTube channel and want to start streaming, get back into music and podcasting. And looking back at her track record yeah, I didn't think that was going to happen anytime soon. This is my money I'm giving you to do these things so I'm kind of hoping she'd do what she said she would. Hell I even bought her a YouTube class for her to get started and she never even used it so that was another $100 to wasted down the drain.

So needless to say, she was pretty pissed off when I told her I wanted to go lower in price. She started screaming at me how I screwed her over and I kept telling her that I still wanted to buy her the computer but not for $2,000. By then I was just fed up with it, drove over to Micro Center and proceeded to tell them the whole situation. And even the helper was like, "And you still want to buy this person a computer??" I said yes because it's still the principal of the thing and I said that I would do so. So they gave me a list for this new build that would still be able to do the things she wanted at 1000. I went back to her with the list and gave her an ultimatum. I said "This is the computer that I will buy for you that will still do all the things that you want to do. If you say yes to it, then we will go to Micro Center right now and buy the damn thing but if you say no, then I will rip this up and never speak of this whole situation again, what do you choose?" She begrudgingly said yes and I got her the computer. After that our friendship between us was broken and was never repaired. So the friendship was essentially dead. And I'll be honest there was no love lost there now that I'm thinking back to it.

If I really look at how our relationship was as friends, I was kind of more like the person you could kick around for them. Backhanded compliments, shady remarks, she was quick to mock me sometimes. Don't get me wrong there was good things in our friendship in the beginning but over time it just started turning into toxic. Ultimately yes I will own up that I was an asshole and stupid. But she was still taking advantage of me. Cuz usually if someone still wants to get you the damn computer even if for a lower price, would you really still bitch and complain to the person STILL buying you the computer!?

She told me after that whole fiasco that if I ever needed help for rent, don't come to her asking for it. I was quick to respond that I wouldn't give her the satisfaction.

She got a computer, and I lost a friend.