Woman Ordered Drink at Restaurant After Feeling ‘Pressure' from Her Friends and Refused to Drink It. Then, She Walked Out on the Bill

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A 23-year-old woman wrote that she walked out without paying for her drink after her friends peer pressured her into ordering it at her friend's 21st birthday dinner
The woman said on Reddit that her friends waved the waiter away as they persisted to convince her to order the drink
Reddit users offered their thoughts in the comments section, saying she took on the responsibility for paying for the drink once she ordered it
A woman is questioning her decision of not paying for a drink she was peer pressured into ordering.
The 23-year-old woman said that her friends pressured her into ordering a drink she didn't want while attending a 21st birthday dinner. She alleged that her friends who range in ages from 21-26 were aware of the fact that she doesn't drink, but continued to pester her nonetheless.
'I'm not a drinker, have never been one, and will never be one,' the woman wrote on Reddit.
While dining at a fancy restaurant in celebration of her friend Lily's 21st birthday, the birthday girl suggested the woman order an alcoholic beverage. The woman said she refused, but that response did not seem to please the rest of the group, who then began to chime in with the birthday girl.
'Once again I refuse,' the woman wrote. 'They know I don't drink and how I feel abt it. But basically them begging me to get a drink kept going on for about five minutes.'
In the meantime, as the waiter came over to check on the table to see if they would like to place an order, the woman claimed that the group waved him away because the woman refused to give in to their pleas.
The woman admitted that she weakens under peer pressure especially when multiple people are involved. They eventually wore her down and she gave in to their begging.
The birthday girl suggested a drink for "beginners" the woman recalled from the night prior. She continued to insist that she didn't want anything to drink and that no matter what they ordered her she wasn't going to like it.
'They said I will…' the woman told forum users in her Reddit post.
The drink eventually came, the woman tasted it and unsurprisingly, she didn't like it. 'One sip and I wanted it gone.'
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Regardless, the group of women didn't stop there but continued in their persistence to pressure her into drinking the cocktail. They finally had enough of her refusing and dropped the matter, until the bill came.
At the end of the meal, the woman explained that she subtracted the drink from her portion of the bill, justifying it since she didn't want it to begin with.
But her move didn't sit well with the rest of the group, as they questioned her reasoning. The woman tried explaining to her friends that she wasn't going to pay for the drink because she 'didn't willingly get it.'
'Lily said I could've said no.. I DID!! Many times at that,' the woman said.
The argument continued and the woman said she eventually got up and left the restaurant leaving the drink unpaid for.
'I sent the money for my meal to Lily and stated that if she or no one else was going to buy the drink then they shouldn't have begged me to got it,' she penned on the forum.
After confiding in her husband about the evening out with her girlfriends, she said that he agreed with her decision to pass on paying for the drink while encouraging her to distance herself from them.
'However the texts messages from all four of them haven't stopped," the woman writes.
Fellow forum users offered their opinions in the comments, many saying she should have just stuck with her 'no.'
'You ordered it, regardless of the why, you ordered it, making it your responsibility. If you didn't want to order it, you should have stuck to your guns, but when you gave in, it became your responsibility,' one user wrote.
Another user says the woman walked out at the wrong moment.
'You should have scrammed when they were relentlessly bullying you to get a drink,' wrote another user. 'Period. The fact that you decided to walk out only when they wanted you to pay for it seems misplaced.'
'And these aren't your friends. No is a full sentence and why behind the no doesn't matter. You said no to alcohol and your so-called-friends didn't agree and pressured you,' wrote another user in the comments.
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