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Ordinarily I would say "ha ha, that is a funny answer", but for 500 ing dollars for a meal, I would damn well seriously consider doing just that.
the ing ers, indeed.
I agree. I wouldn't have paid for anything more than I ate/ordered.
It would be another thing if the rules were laid out before hand, but you can't go balls out ordering and then expect others to foot the bill.
Ordinarily I would say "ha ha, that is a funny answer", but for 500 ing dollars for a meal, I would damn well seriously consider doing just that.
True, but in the case of a friend's birthday, I've(we've) always paid for their meal.
This is really a case of stupidity. She should asked for a separate check if she didn't have the money or just told them that she couldn't afford to pay for anyone's dinner/drinks but her own.
Walking out like that, without saying anything, implies that she ate and drank like everyone else and stiffed the other people.
chipping in a little for the birthday person is one thing, but chipping in to cover her "seven guests" ? nah i don't think so.
Some people are more generous (or more easily manipulated) than others: if they want to pay for someone else's crap, that's great. I know for a fact that none of the people I hang out with would pull that , but if somebody did, I would let out a hearty "WTF?!", pay for my stuff and walk out.
Although sneaking out is kind of weak, at least she didn't roll over later on.
If these are good friends and this is the understanding beforehand, I have no issue with it. We always do it with my group of close friends. Everybody know it and everybody is cool with it. Also, given that that is the rule, nobody goes for the really expensive dishes.
bag friends. Especially if you can't be understanding with the economy being the way it is right now.
He probably shouldn't have walked out like that though. Better to just be straight with everyhone.
It would have been better if Bday boy would been straight with everyone.
oh no i agree, we always split the birthday person's stuff. not the whole thing though - unless it happened to be family style orders.
"Friends" can split a check or treat each others. "Newfound acquaintances" can buy their own damn tuna roll. The only thing I would have done differently is making sure the see-you-next-Tuesday's name became awfully public.
We almost always split evenly. But everyone knows to order within the same price range or else they throw more money in to cover whatever they ordered that went above and beyond.
These aren't friends, though. If someone offered to make payment arrangements to cover their birthday and day at the spa, then I'd laugh and tell them to get ed.
Separate checks and you'll avoid all this drama.
This is what I what of done. Paid for mine and then some for the birthday person. I'm not paying for everybody else's .
that , I'll pay for what i ate, nothing more.
birthday boy too.
The funniest part is that she offered to let that person make payment Arrangements. I would have said "you can arrange to suck on deez nnnnuuuuuttttttttttttttttssssss"
The problem I have with this is the bill was over 3 grand. I find it very hard to believe there were no pre-arrangments on $3,000.00 meal between 6 people that know each other. I don't believe this story. I call BULL
$500 sushi? Something fishy about that.
Inviting someone to a dinner without at least subtly hinting they'll be expected to chip in is tacky.
Going to a birthday dinner with only $50 in your pocket is ing stupid.
Everyone fails.
WTF!? Call me stupid 'cause I can't remember the last birthday dinner I went to with more than $50. Then again I wouldn't be caught dead paying for sushi.
Good sushi is ALWAYS expensive. Their total bill seems a bit excessive to me, but bills at Japanese/sushi restaurants add up very quickly. Ultimately, though, if you're going to a birthday dinner, you should be prepared to cover your food and at least chip in towards the birthday girl's/boy's meal -- at any nice restaurant, that's going to be at least $50.00, in which case I would bring more than that to prepare for unforeseen cir stances.
Yeah, the $3500 makes me think this broad either rented a private room and/or ordered a few bottles of liquor.
I'm not sure how it eventually all got settled on my birthday friend's dinner, but it appeared that everybody paid for their own and I bought my friend and our close buddies (screw everybody else I didn't know) a round of drinks.
You've got to be prepared that a bill might be a little over what you expect, but it's also cool to set the ground rules ahead of time, especially if you know the place is pricey. That's friendship.
I must not go to nice restaurants then because the bill is rarely over $50 for the whole family. Plus every bd dinner I've ever been to has been pay for your own.
usually we get separate checks, but everybody pitches in to cover the birthday boy or girl.
I agree. It sounds like she got a raw deal.
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