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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not want to be friends with someone who judged me because I had a small house. Are there that many people who judge people for having a small house? That's pretty lame. My bigger issue is people who like to split the bill in restaurants. I want to be like "uh, do you think I ordered a garden salad and tap water because that was my top choice?" I order less and pay less. If they want to call me cheap behind my back, so be it. They ain't paying my credit card bill.
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Up to a point.... That type of stuff cuts both ways...

If its a group of 6 people or something and you want to be the one person who says you owe $19 instead of $24, rather than just splitting the bill, I find that pretty irritating... and inevitably they person who does this usually doesnt end up paying their fair share anyway. Rounding a $9.50 garden salad up to $10 isn't going to cover tax and tip. Happens every time. You always end up counting money and somehow you are $40 short and everyone just sort of looks at the floor and says 'I only ate bread' or whatever. So of course someone ends up having to cover the extra $40. I've had people get into how much of the wine they owe because they had 2 glasses and some other couple had 3 glasses. Okay, so now we are going to sit at this fucking table dividing a $22 bottle of wine by the number of glasses people had?

Similarly - and to your point - I find it really irritating when someone orders the most expensive thing on the entire menu - Oh yes sir, I'll have the surf and turf for $64 - and then wants to split the bill evenly. I NEVER pull that shit. If I order a $50 porterhouse steak, I'm going to offer to pay more than the even split because I'm not a total fuckhead. I remember one couple we went out with both ordered surf and turf - then asked us what kind of wine we liked - we said white, they said 'oh we prefer red', and proceeded to a bottle which they drank entirely on their own. The bill came and our total was maybe $60 - there's was more like $180. We split the bill evenly cause I didnt want to be 'that guy', but we've never been out with them again. I'm pretty sure they just invited us as a way to cushion their expense.

Point is, be reasonable on both sides of that equation. 
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