63 Moments That Instantly Ended A Potential Friendship

I was at a Renaissance Faire and talking with someone who was helping run the neighboring booth. Their dog was yapping and annoying them, while they were in the middle of writing something on a clipboard. **They used the clipboard to smack the dog in the face.** I stopped talking to them immediately and hope I don't see them again.

They refused to thank the waiters because "Why would I thank somebody for doing a job I'm paying them for?"

Met a girl in a college class. We seemed to get along, so we decided hey, why not hang out outside of class. We were walking to grab lunch at a spot that happened to be in my neighborhood. She looks at me and deadass asks me "Is this the ghetto?", then proceeds to spend the rest of the walk there talking bad about poor people and saying how she's glad she grew up in a better area.

Most awkward lunch of my life.

I met a girl at a bar and we ended up going to another bar a few blocks down a half hour later. At that spot we stepped outside for a smoke and she made a racist comment about someone who walked past us. I paid the tab and quickly vanished into the night.

When they asked me to join their pyramid scheme multiple times within the first 2 hours of us meeting.

When we went on a 2 day trip with my neighbors to a nearby city, they had a huge fight the night before and left their 3yr old with us for the whole day because they needed to “sort out their issues alone”.

We had to take care of their son (who’s basically a stranger?) all day on top of our toddler. Then my neighbors came back to dinner at 6pm like nothing happened.

I was in Shanghai partying with some expats who were spouses of my Chinese coworkers and firmly in the LBH (losers back home) bucket. One guy and I were hitting it off, and he kept asking me how I liked being single in China as a white guy.

I kept deflecting and asked him about how he met his wife, Jing. He said yeah they were hooking up and he married her because she kept pressuring him, but said he “was thinking he’d divorce her because he missed boobs”

I told him that was horrible and we didn’t talk for the rest of the night.

Went to a bridal brunch since I got picked as a Bridesmaid. Someone asked what are our hobbies. I said video games, been playing since Pokémon was in black and white on Gameboy.

Girl looks at me and goes "Oh. That's cute, you're trying to be "woke"." I think I blue screened there but when I asked her to clarify did the "Aren't you too old to play video games?"

Edit add: The first Pokemon game I played was Red/Blue/Yellow. I played on the Gameboy the grey one!

Yeah. No.

Dude has a kid my kids age. We met at some shared hobby event and got the kids together to play while we hung out and played board games and whatnot.

He got divorced, and frankly we sided with his wife, but otherwise he was still cool about things, so we kept hanging out. They got split custody of the kid and there were no accusations of horribleness, they just grew apart. We hung out with them both separately for a good long while.

Then he meets this girl he was head over heels for in highschool, and they end up together. After a while they get an apartment together, and thats when it hits. We're planning a hangout and everything seems fine. About a half hour before we head out to go to his place I get the call, his girlfriend doesn't want women in her space. I can either bring my kid myself and leave my wife at home or we can make today a wildlife day and go for a hike in the nearby state park.

My wife got upset, and frankly I don't blame her. We didn't want to cancel our kids plan so I took our kid to the park and we met there as if my wife came, told him she stayed home at the last moment because she was upset sith the new rule that not even a married woman could visit their home.

College story.

Lived next to a nice woman in the dorm. She had an (attractive) friend over to visit. Thought the vibe was good. I went back to my room and she followed me.

She looked around at the 80s New Wave posters I had on my walls (Police, Squeeze, Duran Duran) and said “Wow, if you were my boyfriend, I’d never let you live like this.”

Vibe died right there. Too bad….

When he asked me to pay him back for my birthday gift.

Alright, alright, folks. So, I’m in college right now and I’ve been meeting a bunch of new people I kinda wanted to be friends with. But there was this one guy I really liked, let’s call him James. For months, we were chatting and I genuinely thought we could become good friends. And just recently, on my birthday, I was kinda sick but still celebrated it with my family. James actually got me a gift, a Steam game I’d been wanting for ages.

Fast forward about a month, we were talking like usual, and out of nowhere, he hits me up asking me to pay him back for the gift. Apparently, he blew all his pocket money. His exact words “I don’t even have money for cigarettes, but I feel like smoking.” And that was the reason he wanted the cash back. Honestly, I was super disappointed in him, and now I’m keeping my contact with him to a bare minimum.

When they make fun of me for not going to the bar every weekend.

When on the third outing as female friends she still hadn’t picked up a tab, not even the 2 lemonades for 8$ one. Like foh not your atm or your lover. And then had the audacity to get upset at me when I mentioned reciprocity matters. Yeah bye 👻.

They ALWAYS try to get something free or discounted while out at a restaurant. This is prefaced by predictably complaining about things that really have nothing wrong with them, in preparation for getting offered something to shut them up.

Had a mate invite me round to play FIFA. First game, I beat him 3-1. He accused me of using a cheap formation, restarted the match without asking, lost again, then said his controller was broken and asked me to leave. We had known each other maybe 45 minutes.

They put on this sad song and kept making themself cry on purpose while looking out the car window as if it was a music video.

Loaning money and not being paid back!

When he or she doesn't allow you to talk.

He (with no experience) repeated what my colleague (with 2 years first hand experience) had perfectly articulated the first time.

My husband’s friend’s wife when we first met kept saying things like “Once my grandma dies and I get her life insurance” constantly. I couldn’t handle someone prioritizing money over a person. I was disgusted.