BLeP wrote:
axlsix3 wrote:
I have a group of co-workers that would sometime go out to lunch together. In one instance, 4 of us went out and all ordered the same thing (burger, fries & coke) with the exception of 'Lisa', who only had burger & fries. When the bill came out I suggested we split it 4 ways. 'Lisa' objected and said she should pay $1.50 less since she didn't have a coke. 'Lisa' hasn't been invited back to group lunches.I get the cheap factor here but some people can get carried away with "let just split it evenly". My wife had a couple of friends who she would go out with. They would both order 2-3 glasses of wine with dinner and insist on appetizers. My wife would usually order water to drink. Their orders were routinely about $30 more than my wifes. And they would say "oh lets just split it". Not wanting to look cheap the wife would pony up.
Now my wife just asks for a separate bill right at the beginning.
Bunch of friends went to Charleston for a Friday to Sunday golf trip, fly in Friday about noon, play 18, hit hotel, play 36 on Sat and another 18 on Sunday morning before flying out. 4 different courses. Great friend from high school all through the round Friday afternoon said how we were just going to split dinner evenly and he was ordering lobster and steak and making us pay for it. Would then bust out laughing. Dinner rolls around and sure enough he starts ordering top shelf gin and tonics, apps, and surf-n-turf. There were 8 of us so maybe we each paid $15 more than we should have otherwise. Kicker is, he gets so stinking drunk, he doesn't leave his hotel room rest of weekend and barely makes it to airport. Misses out on 3 rounds of golf he had already paid for and the rest of the fun of the weekend. It was worth $15 just to give him shit the last 15 years....
I think that was also the weekend I ended up in some X bar with a pregnant chick....