Friend Group SHAMES ME For Contributing Towards A €3000 Birthday Dinner | Reading Reddit Stories
Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In today's narration of Reddit stories, OP's friend have setup a birthday "tradition" where the birthday person pays for dinner and they all get the person an expensive gift together. However OP doesn't really enjoy this system and wants to change things.
0:00 Intro
0.19 Story 1
3:42 Story 1 Comments from OP
5:30 Story 1 Update 1
6:42 Story 1 Update 2
10:23 Story 2
12:41 Story 2 Comments
14:42 Story 2 Update
15:47 Story 2 Comments
16:23 Story 3
17:35 Story 3 Comments / OP's Replies
20:18 Story 3 Update
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more Reddit stories. |
| 0:09.5 | And if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider in the like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. |
| 0:15.2 | Let's crack on with today's first story. Much of love guys. |
| 0:19.2 | Now today's first story comes from the Am I the Asshole subreddit and says |
| 0:22.6 | am I the asshole for not chipping in for a Gucci bag or for a 3,000 euro birthday dinner I didn't plan. |
| 0:31.1 | I 29 female and my husband 35 male are part of a close group of friends. We're all in our late 20s to mid 30s. Most of us |
| 0:41.2 | are married or in serious relationships and we usually celebrate birthdays together. The usual |
| 0:47.0 | setup has always been that the birthday person hosts and pays for everyone. But a year ago, |
| 0:53.2 | this weird new tradition started. For each birthday, someone |
| 0:57.5 | opens a WhatsApp group and says, let's all chip in for this really expensive gift. |
| 1:02.2 | We're talking about things like Hermes flip flops, Formula One tickets, Gucci bags, |
| 1:09.2 | and it's all very public and a bit uncomfortable to say no. |
| 1:12.7 | My husband and I have always gone along with it, even though it's felt a bit much at times. |
| 1:17.8 | For example, we paid around 300 euros towards a 1500 euro Formula One ticket for my husband's best friend. |
| 1:25.1 | Let's call him Tom. |
| 1:27.4 | At the time, it felt okay, but now things are |
| 1:31.2 | different. We're already parents to one child. We're trying for a second, and we just opened a new |
| 1:36.6 | business which we fully funded from our own savings. Everyone in the group knows this, including |
| 1:42.4 | Tom. We're doing fine financially, but we're |
| 1:45.0 | definitely being more careful. These expensive group gifts are not something we feel comfortable |
| 1:50.0 | doing anymore. A few weeks ago, it was my husband's birthday. One of the friends asked if I was |
| 1:56.0 | going to open a WhatsApp group for a gift. I said no. My husband didn't want anything. We hosted everyone |
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