backstory
I have two friends( a couple) who have always been loyal and would go out of their way to help me out more so than a normal friend would. the type of friends that i would call if god forbid i ever needed to be bailed out of jail.
incident 1
However, this past summer, i let them stay at my place. they invited random people to my place while i was asleep, who were in full party mode and gave 0 ****s about my property. like the people they invited over were just making a mess to be *******s when i woke up. I chewed them out. they apologized, profusely and said they had been at the lake drinking all day and were out of it. they came in person to apologize and were sincere about it.
it was the first time they really did something disrespectful, so i gave them a pass after we talked it over and they seemed genuinely sorry.
Now, the issue at hand. I have this huge sturdy, really nice kitchen table and chair set that has been with me for years. it has been a tank and has held up like new and looks great. it was about $1500 brand new. Through all my moves, it has 0 noticeable scratches, mint condition. Impressive considering i switch apartments every year and have had some wild roomates in the past
The kitchen table incident
They came over a few months later and one of their cousins stood on the support beam between the chair legs and broke the chair. like just stood on it.
for example, the horizontal beam in front of the picture below.
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So, im down one chair. However, with the way the table was set up, i could get by with 3 chairs and have it look fine.
Fast forward a few months later. They come over and the guy of the couple stood on the support beam of another chair and snapped the chair.
its one of those things that pisses me off, because it makes no sense to stand on chair in that way and it happened twice.
anyways, i was like whatever, i will try and fix it later.
So then, he goes and i dont know how he even did it since the table weighs a ton and ive had people sit on the corner and have the table not tip, but he pushed down on it as he was sitting down and tilted the table off the ground and knocked everything off it.
the table now squeks when ever i touch it.
Confrotntation
When they came over, they sold me something literally pennies on the dollar. Something that cost like 300 and they sold it to me for 100.
The next day, they hit me up for the cash for it as i didnt have it that night. This is the couples only source of income and they are pretty poor, so i sent him the cash.
However, i mentioned you were a real tornado and broke alot of things last night. im really going to have to break out my carpentry skills to fix it. and sent him a pic of it. he made a joke.
so, i admit i was skirting around confronting them about it. So, i directly said, hey man, you totally trashed out a 1500 kitchen table set.
and he responded
"10/10 ****ty build. would not buy again"
I took that response as beyond disrespectful. maybe im being overly emotional here.
But, i go wow, that is a true scumbag response. dont bother contacting me again.
he sent me a text saying he didnt know i was being serious as he didnt know the table was broken. and that it was a joke in response.
I am thinking of writing off an 8 year friendship over this... petty on my part? overly emotional?
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