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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
then you have some starving footballer type who orders an entrée and an expensive dish and dessert and a cheese plate. at the end when you get the check someone invariably says "shall we just split it evenly among us ?" and i end up paying three times more than i ate.  |
I was thinking along the same lines. I don't go out on dates a lot these days, but I have friends I go out with. One guy's meal ticket almost always ends up twice what mine is. But it seems a bit cheap to
always insist on separate checks.
I like the idea of reciprocity - he picks up dinner, I'll pay for the movies (which these days cost as much as a nice simple meal!) If he always pays for dinner, I try to find a way to give back some other way - a special book he's been looking for, tickets for some sporting event, etc...