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A man bought Abby Fenton a drink at a nightclub. Two weeks later, she received this text.

Meet 18-year-old student Abby Fenton, who received a text from a stranger’s number demanding a £6.50 (AUD $11.40) for the vodka coke she drank two weeks ago.

A-yup.

The teenager from Barnsley in the UK was on a night out when a man approached her and offered to cover the cost of her voddy-c.

After one day of a killer hangover followed by thirteen days of silence, Abby received this:

Side note: Abby, why on earth do you have 63 unread messages? How many people do you owe drinks money to?

"I was at the bar about to get myself a drink myself when he came over to me and said ‘I’ll get that for you, you’re gorgeous’ and all that," the biomedicine student told SWNS.

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"At first I didn’t realise he got my number as he didn’t text me that night or the next day. He wasn’t my type really but I just thought that when you’re out, people buy you drinks."

Oh Abby. Poor, sweet Abby. Don't you realise that a man buying you a drink means he literally, figuratively and essentially owns you? Don't you realise that $11.40 was the cost of your SOUL?**

How very dare you not return his grandiose gesture of romance with your undying affection and hand in marriage?

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Sadly, voddy-c payer dude was not Abby's type, and to put it simply: she wasn't having a goddamn bar of him.

"I remember that he wasn’t dressed so well. I always look at people’s shoes and I remember they were Primark shoes."

Oh no.

Ultimately, the uni student knew what she had to do (before she posted about the ordeal on Twitter, obvs).

"I paid him back straight away even though I wasn’t going to at first as I thought it was so cheeky, but then I thought he might have needed it."

Love ya work, Abby.

So - what would you do? Pay the dude back, or pocket the $11.40 and employ the tried and true method of block-and-delete? 

** Sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm.

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Top Comments

fightofyourlife 8 years ago

I'm really surprised by some of the responses here. No one forced this guy to buy her a drink. He chose to do that. Accepting it doesn't mean that she is obliged to buy him a drink in return, talk to him, dance with him, go out with him, sleep with him or anything else. If he isn't happy with that, then he shouldn't have offered the drink.


Janelle Claire Berner 8 years ago

Ignore him. If she wasn't interested why would she even reply to his text?! I'm sure he's bought many drinks in his life for people who've never bought him one back. He's just a cheapskate