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Originally Posted by ken0042
I say his asking for the $15 is fine.
You say you often buy beers for people. He might be thinking of times when he has given you rides somewhere. It doesn't matter that you may think you are on the giving end most of the time, the bottom line is you guys are splitting up the costs of the road trip. The road trip cost $190. You put in $160, he put in $30. So $130 divided by 2 is $65.
The two things everybody here has in common; we all have above average driving abilities; and we all do more favours for our friends than we get returned.  |
IMO this misses the point. The point isn't for everything to be even steven - if it was then there are many other costs involved in the trip that could be brought up. Also we agreed to split the costs of the gas, not the trip. If that were the case I'd be fine with this... it's the fact that he even cares enough about $15 for some beer to bring it up.
This type of things irks me in the same way as when people start tallying their portions of a bill at a restaurant when all 4 people basically had dishes and drinks that cost roughly the same price. Who cares if Johnny's dish cost an extra $5, just divide the check by 4 and be done with it (in instances where one person doesn't decide to just grab the check that is).