friends help: Recently, i was going out with a very best friend and I was the only one who was planning on carrying a purse (a small one). - Help.com

Don’t replace it for her.

I do not think you should have to replace her camera. If you were borrowing it and lost it, that would be different. She choose not to hold on to her camera, she made the decision to put it in your purse, so, you did not do anything to make your responsible for it.

I say this as a woman who has children who put things in her purse all the time and then get mad when they can not find their stuff.

Thank you. That’s exactly what I said. If I had asked to borrow the thing, I would have replaced it without a question. But it’s very ticklish because she’s a grudge holder.

I would not feel right about you replacing it….but how long have you known this friend and how long has she been a best friend? Good friends are hard to come by; good friends do things to disappoint us (her being snotty about this whole thing); and good friends forgive each other. Could you potentially lose a good friendship over a camera?? Mind you….I am NOT saying that I think you need to replace it. I’m just saying that there are more issues here…

We’ve been friends for about four or five years now. I fully intend to pay for half of the thing, which i thought was pretty generous in the first place. But losing a friend is what I’m afraid of because she’s being kind of unreasonable about the whole deal.

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We’ve been friends for about four or five years now. I fully intend to pay for half of the thing, which i thought was pretty generous in the first place. But losing a friend is what I’m afraid of because she’s being kind of unreasonable about the whole deal.

Tell her this. I do think that is more than generous to pay half. Tell her that you value the friendship. Show her this post…

id have to say if you warned her its kind of her fault. its hard to say because we dont know how it fell out but i think shes being unreasonable

i dropped my purse a couple times and i’m assuming it came out then. honestly i don’t remember if she even gave it back to me after we took a picture in the club.

then shes being really unreasonable. its her fault if you warned her especially if your not even sure you had it

i told her i warned her, but she keeps saying that she didn’t hear me or she would’ve taken it. so basically it sucks all around.

not your fault if she doesnt hear and you think she did. but come to a solution quickly that doesnt leave someone pissed so it doesnt ruin the friendship. it would be stupid for something like that to happen

I would offer to pay for half. Friends should meet eachother half way!!!!