Sun 15 February 2004 - A bit rude
When you’re out to dinner in a group at a nice restaurant…
and you get the bill…
and the organiser says she’ll pay the balance of whatever everyone else puts in, as she’s also paying for others who had to leave early…
and everyone else decides to put in $30 each — which is a bit more than is due, so that it will avoid awkward calculations or the organiser (who is also the birthday girl) having to pay too much…
and then the last two people study the bill intently and declare that they only had Mains, therefore they’re only putting in $44 for the two of them…
Nevermind that they had some of the very fine Bruschetta as well, for which there was a separate charge.
Well, I think that’s a bit rude.