Does my friend owe me money for forgetting to book the campsite?
He said "I got it" three separate times, then never booked it — and the whole group ate a motel bill. Does he owe everyone their money back? Here's the ruling.
The friend who paid for the motel
She was told the campsite was handled — not once, but every time it came up in the group chat — so there was no reason to go behind anyone's back and verify. The motel bill only exists because a booking she was promised never happened, and she's out real money for a reservation someone else swore was done.
The friend who said he'd book it
It was an unpaid favor he took on for the group, not a contract, and everyone was equally free to check the reservation at any point over the months it sat there. In his view a trip is a shared project, so a shared oversight shouldn't land entirely on the one person who volunteered.
The verdict
Who's at fault
The friend who said he'd book it is more in the wrong here. The person who promised is on the hook here, and it's not close. This wasn't one forgotten task — he confirmed it was handled two more times after the original promise, and those confirmations are exactly what stopped anyone else from checking until the site was gone. His "she should have double-checked" defense fell apart the moment he admitted that was just an assumption, not something she ever agreed to. She isn't spotless — asking for an actual confirmation number months out would have caught it — but failing to verify someone who told you three times it was done is a much smaller mistake than not doing it.
“"I got it" three times still means you didn't got it.”
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