The Friends drama over the serious disagreement over travel has generated around 5,000 reactions and 3,000 comments on social media, many of which clearly take the side of one of the women.
“I recently went on a trip to England with my best friend,” wrote a woman who said she was just 20 years old.
“My dad is British so I actually have a British passport,” she added, “but my friend had to get a British visa.”
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She wrote on a Reddit page known as AITA (Am I an Idiot?) that the two friends were “planning to take two flights, one to arrive in France and one to connect to the UK.”
“However,” she continued, “the second flight ended up being cancelled. The next flight wasn’t until 2pm the following day, so we had to wait around 17 hours.”
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She said passengers were “allowed to stay at nearby hotels free of charge.”
But “this doesn’t apply to people like my friend,” she added. “She didn’t have a European visa and therefore wasn’t legally allowed to leave the airport.”
According to the woman’s testimony, tensions rose between the friends at this point.
“I had the option to stay with her, but I chose to go to a hotel.”
A friend, who didn’t have a visa for Europe, said: “We had to stay in a specific area of the airport which had bright overhead lights on 24/7. There was construction going on nearby so we could hear very loud drilling noises at times.”
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The author added: “My friend had to sleep on the floor because all the available seats were taken by other passengers. Plus, water had spilled on his phone charger earlier in the day, leaving his phone with only 40% battery left.”


The friendship may have ended after one young woman (not pictured) was forced to spend the night alone at the airport while the other headed off to a hotel without her. (iStock)
“He had the option of staying with her, but he chose to go to a hotel,” the woman continued.
Her friend became “furious” and “accused me of being a fake friend,” the woman said.
She also “told me that she was scared to be alone in a strange, creepy place and asked me to comfort her,” the author said. “I assured her I’d be back by morning.”
The woman was accused of being a “false friend.”
His friend found little comfort in those words.
“She said I was being selfish by not spending the night with her, but I hadn’t slept in over 24 hours and didn’t understand why we both should suffer,” the woman wrote.
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She asked others for their opinions and received plenty.
The most highly-rated response to the drama itself had around 13,000 reactions.
“That was a really horrible thing to do,” the commenter wrote as part of a longer response.


“Learn now that your attitude of ‘why should we both suffer’ will get you nowhere in life.” (Stefano Guidi/Getty Images)
“On a smaller scale, I remember a friend asking to accompany me to a traveling Broadway show and being excited about the opportunity to see it. I told her I couldn’t afford the $300 seats she wanted, but I could get her seats about 15 rows back for $100.”
The commenter added: “She just ignored me and said, ‘Well, I’m just going to sit here’. She was totally surprised when I told her that would mean she’d just have to enjoy the show by herself.”
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The same person added, “We’re not friends anymore. That was 20 years ago.”
She added to the young woman: “Just think about what you did that was even worse. You didn’t just want to get away from her (her friend) and have a better seat, you left her in a foreign country where she was scared. That’s a big thing for AH to do.”
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This same commenter attempted to educate the user, saying, “I know you’re only 20 so I’ll give you some leeway, but I hope you learn now that your ‘why should we both suffer’ attitude won’t get you anywhere in life.”


“Never leave your friends behind and be alone, especially in a foreign country overnight.” (iStock)
She continued: “You’ll lose more friends than you make, you’ll be left out at work and alone more often than not, and your selfishness will make you less attractive to other selfish people.”
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Another respondent echoed many: “Never leave your friends behind and be on their own, especially in a foreign country overnight. I would not let my friend walk to the corner store alone at night, much less in the middle of the night, miles from home, surrounded by strangers and expected to sleep on the floor with no way to leave their room and get anything to make them more comfortable.”
Another wrote that apparently a “bad one night experience” meant “your friendship” wasn’t worth it.