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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You shouldn't go. You are too uptight and too cheap to go to any sort of group dinner. [/quote]

The guest of honor who planned the party and is possibly going to have their guess pay their own way is the only cheap person in this scenario.[/quote]

Yes.  It's great-grandma's 100th birthday and all the grandchildren want to take her out to her favorite restaurant for dinner.

She is the cheap one for not picking up the tab.

You guys are nuts[/quote]

That would be nuts. But this is a celebration being organized by the person who's having a birthday and expects to be treated. They're not being "taken out" except in terms of who funds this.

I know this concept of someone deciding where people are going to be footing the bill for them has been around for decades, but I still think it's bad form to spend other people's money. If everyone wants to take the birthday boy somewhere, great! Plan it and pay for it. If the birthday girl wants to go someplace in particular for her birthday, with her friends, great! She can invite as many as she can pay for. But summoning people and demanding that they open their wallets for you is gross. Have a freaking potluck so the underpaid and the trust funded can all afford to celebrate.[/quote]

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