Article #47941

A woman taking weight-loss drugs asked her friend if she could pay less, as she had eaten less. That friendship seems doomed to me ...

Medication can have a wide array of side-effects, which now apparently includes penny-pinching. In the newsletter the Daily Skimm, a reader had a query for the money expert Heather Boneparth: “A close friend who’s on a GLP-1 recently asked to pay a quarter of our dinner bill instead of splitting it evenly, since she ate significantly less. Was I wrong to push back, and how do we handle the bill going forward?”

Sorry, but this friendship is doomed. The question-asker even being prepared for there to be bills going forward proves they’re big-hearted, and therefore incompatible with the subject of her quandary.