Originally Posted by
heraclitus
You guys are being a bit hard on the OP. Sounds like a young guy having a good time. I'm surprised that the other dude would get angry about the OP's inability to chip in a few bucks toward cab fare. I mean, if I were having a good time on vacation with some hostel buddies, I'd just give the cabbie a ten or whatever and carry on, instead of picking a fight over the three bucks that someone owed me.
Here's the thing, though: they didn't know him and didn't know if it was going to be a case of them covering his cab fare, them getting badgered into buying Moneyless Guy drinks at the bar, them covering his cab fare back, and so on. In fact, "oops, I ran out of money" is a classic freeloading technique, along the lines of "oops, I forgot my wallet, can you pay for lunch?" I'm not saying that's what the OP was doing, but really, these other folks had no way of knowing that.