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Originally Posted by flameswin
Like a lot of posters in here, I was the guy who wouldn't be petty with the bill at all, I would just estimate what I owed, and pay more than enough. But having been in too many situations where everyone throws their money in, only to have someone holding the cash saying "uhh, we're about $10 short, plus there's no tip", and then everyone stands there staring at eachother saying "well I know I paid enough" just rubbed me the wrong way.
This may sound cheap, but after being screwed so many times and knowing that friends at the table know they're cheaping out, I've changed my way of paying. Now I pay my share plus tip, put my wallet away, and then if we're short I make a point of finding out why we're short. Then the person who shorted kind of feels cheap and has to get his wallet back out.
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Oh buddy. I'm telling you, that's the story of my life. A few weeks back I joined some friends for a late night brew at BP, but instead of beer, I had a coke because I had work in the morning, but being a regular there, the waiter didn't charge me for the coke (the only thing I had in the half hour I was there). I didn't even get in on the nacho's or anything. I gladly put in $5 towards the tip, but somehow the cash is short. Normally I'd feel bad, but this night I was like you, and put the wallet away. I shouldn't have put in anything! Like some of you, just recently I have made it known what I've put in, what I ordered, I'm putting in more than my fair share.
There's another thing I hate...the one friend who feels obsessed everytime to say he put in more than he should have and always takes way too much change back when other people who obviously put in more than theirs are left with nothing.
That or the person who penny pinches the 15% rule.
People purposely mooch and it pisses me off. Sometimes people take it for granted.
I'm really liking this thread...it's been a long time coming to vent off on this nonsense (though the perpetrators will sadly never see this, and I don't have the gonads to vent on them in person).
