A man would never do this

[Dex]

If you invite someone to a birthday party at your house, do you make them bring the food? drinks? beer? Do you charge them cover?

How about a kid's birthday? If you're throwing little Timmy's birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese, do you go around and hit up the parents for money to foot the bill?

If you throw a party, or arrange a birthday dinner, then I'd say you are responsible for that bill. Or at least responsible for making it understood that it will be separate checks or split. If everybody else wants to make the gesture to pick it up, dandy. But you can't go in expecting that.

Now if someone ELSE throws you a dinner party, I could see why the birthday girl wouldn't feel obliged to pay. But it sounds like she was just trying to have her cake and eat it, too.

[easjer]

The bill should not have been split evenly. The birthday girl's dinner should have been split evenly and everyone should have paid for their own meals or the portion of generally ordered items they consumed.

The last birthday event SFIE and I attended, we paid for our own meals and picked up the appetizer the group ordered because we had to leave and others were still discussing how to split the tab, while the birthday boy was refusing to let anyone pay for his meal. We figured it was the easiest way to do it.

If something is going to split evenly, it needs to be discussed beforehand, and an amount agreed on so people don't go hog wild and expect others to pay for it. Otherwise, people have to be allowed to order on their own for their own budget.

[jack sommerset]

I was at Hooters a few years back and saw the cheapest dude ever. Hooters is not anywhere near the cost of the place in question but I thought this was funny.

About 5-6 of us guys would go to Hooters ever so often. Always on 25 cent wing day. Order a few pitchers, eat some wings and go our married way.Just a after work thing. We all split the bill evenly. Its Hooters. I doubt the bill ever got over 50 bucks. With that said the new guy lined up his chicken wings neatly and began to count them when the bill came. Broke out his calculator to figure out his cost of the 2-3 beers he had. Paid his share and went on his way. Left 15 % of his portion of the tip to the penny!!!!!!

[resistanze]

I was at Hooters a few years back and saw the cheapest dude ever. Hooters is not anywhere near the cost of the place in question but I thought this was funny.

About 5-6 of us guys would go to Hooters ever so often. Always on 25 cent wing day. Order a few pitchers, eat some wings and go our married way.Just a after work thing. We all split the bill evenly. Its Hooters. I doubt the bill ever got over 50 bucks. With that said the new guy lined up his chicken wings neatly and began to count them when the bill came. Broke out his calculator to figure out his cost of the 2-3 beers he had. Paid his share and went on his way. Left 15 % of his portion of the tip to the penny!!!!!!