jca wrote: » God this thread is getting boring...
Dan Jaman wrote: » The mod's getting stingey with the threatened thread bans.
Greybottle wrote: » It's also possible that she had her fingers burnt in the past with the usual starters-steak for the main-dessert-and two bottles of wine crowd, who then decide that the bill should be split amongst those who ate or drank very little. Maybe she's somebody who just pays their way and doesn't want to feel that she "owes" somebody something. Not paying a tip is stinge. I would eat very little at an evening meal out. Just a main, don't drink wine, so might have a water or a beer. I've sat at the table and watch cnuts gorge themselves and then try to get the bill split.THEY are the real stinges because they don't want to pay their full way, they look for a meal for half price. I don't stand for it. And if some prat tries to take the cash and pay by card I'll make sure the tip is paid extra in cash. Had my fingers burnt this way loads of times when working in catering too.
smurfjed wrote: » I had an online friendship with a girl many years ago, she lived in Vienna, we were chatting everyday by email and got on really well, so well in fact that I paid for her to fly to Ireland for the weekend, paid for her hotel room, took her out to Temple bar etc where she only drank one glass of cola for the night, on the Sunday we went driving to Glendalough etc. On the way back I stopped for petrol, at this stage i had paid for absolutely everything, she went into the petrol station shop and came out with ONE bottle of cola and a chocolate bar for herself. I was so bloody livid that i drove her straight to Dublin airport and dropped her there about 6 hours before her flight.
Business Cat wrote: Didn't get the ride I take it?
Eggonyerface wrote: » Imagine a table of adults all rattling through change with their calculators out instead of rounding off to a note. My parents would be disgusted if they thought I was like that, getting in a tizzy over 3.50 at a social occasion
James 007 wrote: » Its pretty normal in Ireland to think like this. But I have lived with many germans and spanish in the past and whats normal for them they dont get into drink rounds and they each seem to pay for their own meals by doing a quick calculation. This way all conflict is avoided, and it all seems to be so normal to them.
Shenshen wrote: » The restaurant business in Germany is geared towards that, though. If you ask for the bill, the waiter/waitress will first ask "Together or separate?". If you decide separate, each individual at the table will be brought their own bill. Makes it a lot easier to not just split the bill. In Ireland where you'd really need to break out the calculator in order to split it correctly, it's really just easier to split it evenly.
piplip87 wrote: » I was out for a meal with a group of friends over the Christmas. There was maybe 10 of us. The bill came to about 250 with wine. One of the lads had a E100 voucher he had won in the Christmas draw and fair play to him he threw it in. So we split rest evenally between us. We said we would all throw 20 each and leave a tip. One of the girls a notorious stings took out her phone subtracted the price of wine, added up the rest because she had a cheaper starter and then counted out 13.50 in change to pay. When called out she said she does not tip, and she didn't drink wine. She has a good job, still lives at home, brand new car, so it was not down money worries. We all went to the pub after it, because it was a big group we didn't do rounds, but everybody bought the fella who used the voucher a couple of drinks over the Christmas.... She didn't
suicide_circus wrote: » If you ask the staff in a lot of restaurants in ireland to split the bill you might as well have asked them to split an atom.
iguana wrote: » I often go out for meals in big groups and we find it easiest to go to restaurant offering a particular meal deal, ie 4 courses for €30. And if anyone wants drinks they order them separately at the bar. That way when the bill comes it's a flat rate for everyone and the people who just drank table water aren't subsidising the cocktail drinkers. It's really straightforward and necessary as one of the first times I went out with one of those groups there were people there who literally picked the cheapest starter and main, had no dessert and drank water all night and also people who had the most expensive starter and steak mains with wine and finished with dessert and a liqueur. Then we split the bill equally and the people who really did appear to have been on a tight budget ended up paying for those who were really treating themselves. It just seemed so unfair. So for the following dinner the set menu and sort out your drinks privately plan was put in place.
WHIP IT! wrote: » Did any of them consider, ye know... opening their f*cking mouths??
NollagShona wrote: » I went out with my friends I didn’t drink, I still split the bill. If you can’t afford it don’t go. Life’s too short for bill checkers
Amanda Screeching Housewife wrote: » There's a big difference between ending up paying twice the price of what you ordered on the one hand, and refusing to "subsidise" your friends a whole big old whopping €6.50 on a night out on the other.
Shenshen wrote: The restaurant business in Germany is geared towards that, though. If you ask for the bill, the waiter/waitress will first ask "Together or separate?". If you decide separate, each individual at the table will be brought their own bill. Makes it a lot easier to not just split the bill. In Ireland where you'd really need to break out the calculator in order to split it correctly, it's really just easier to split it evenly.
the_pen_turner wrote: » more copy and paste A friend of mine used to have a gardening business and always said that teachers were the most stingy people he'd ever met. They just did not like paying. One owed him £50 and it took months to get the money, eventually the customer handed my friend an envelope with his "£50". My friend opned it to find it was £50's worth of money off vouchers this person had cut out of newspapers!
Salthillprom wrote: » An ex bought me a new phone for Christmas one year. We broke up shortly afterwards but in the meantime the phone had broken and I had to get a new one. So I decided to use my upgrade entitlement to get another phone and when I went into the phone shop they told me that my upgrade had been used before Christmas! Turns out ex-boyfriend had ‘bought’ me my new phone using my upgrade without even consulting me!!!! Don’t know how he was allowed to even do it in the first place but he did!
Raging_Ninja wrote: » Sounds like fraud or theft. Tell the phone company that you don't know why they gave some randomer off the street a phone under your name and get the upgrade you paid for.
