That optimism vanished the next morning when she found an email from Eric — an itemized invoice for their date. The message listed the dinner cost, a request for a hug in exchange for the flowers, repayment through another date for the keychain, and a demand for more affection as “emotional labor.” The note ended with a thinly veiled threat: “Failure to comply may result in Chris hearing about it.”
Disturbed, she immediately sent the email to Mia, who was horrified and told her to block him immediately. But Mia didn’t stop there — she told her boyfriend Chris, who decided to respond in the best way possible: by sending Eric a mock invoice from “Karma & Co.” This fake bill included humorous but pointed “charges” such as public embarrassment, emotional disturbance, and the crime of “forcing a woman to sit across from someone wildly out of her league.”
Eric didn’t take it well. He sent a flurry of texts accusing them of lacking humor and misunderstanding his “symbolic” gesture. The narrator calmly responded with a single thumbs-up emoji and blocked him everywhere.
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