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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCUM unanimous!  hardly ever happens!

Just pay get your own tab and pay for yours before you leave.  If anybody has a problem with this, I wouldn't care.

I also wouldn't have paid the original $40 request.  I would say I had one drink, here's my $15.
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Here is your dissenting voice. I don't hang out with people like you. I am grown and so are my friends. If you are still crying over a $15 drink and not paying for others, I have no time for you. That's ridiculous. I pick up the tab all the time. I don't care. It's not that big of a deal. If I can only afford to buy my drink, I don't go out.

I'm surprised that people still invite you.[/quote]
I was wondering when the moocher would show up.[/quote]

Yep—there’s always one!

But to be fair, I can understand this viewpoint if everyone had drinks and dinner—but OP wanted to pay separately bc she opted for the cheaper chicken Caesar salad and a glass of wine while her friend had Chilean sea bass and a cosmopolitan. Or refusing to chip in for the appetizer crab dip that was ordered “for the table” because you didn’t really feel like having any. That’s kind of nickel and diming the situation.

When everyone is having dinner and drinks, you just divide the bill by the number of guests and everyone ante’s up! (That is—assuming you’re over the age of like 25!)
Sometimes this means paying $10-12 more than if the bill had been separate.

But in OP’s scenario, she’s not even really part of the outing. This is what I call a “drive-by drink” with the group. She just stopped in for a glass and then leaves.

It wouldn’t bother me if OP just paid for her own drink in this scenario because she wasn’t even there for the rest!

But I don’t think I’d keep inviting her if she did the drive by twice in a row. Because she is signaling she doesn’t really want to be there.[/quote]

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