He Got Stuck Paying A $700 Dinner Bill For His Girlfriend And 6 Of Her Friends, And He Feels Like He Was Taken Advantage Of
A few months ago, when this 34-year-old guy had only been officially dating his 29-year-old girlfriend for two or three weeks, he was invited to a birthday dinner.
Apparently, the birthday dinner was for his girlfriend’s friend and was being held at a Chinese banquet restaurant. So, his girlfriend instructed him to bring cash in order to split the check with the other men at their table.
For context, the dinner was banquet family style– meaning that about 10 people usually sit at one table. Then, they are served between seven and eight courses of food.
For this particular celebration, the birthday girl invited around 50 guests. In turn, there were five dinner tables in total.
“Keep in mind, this is the first time I have been to a birthday dinner like this,” he prefaced.
Nonetheless, he agreed to go with his girlfriend. But once they arrived, he and his girlfriend were seated at a table with six other women and no other men.
At the same time, the other tables had a bunch of guys mixed in to split each table’s overall bill.
Still, he didn’t say anything– even though usually, each table receives a bill, and all of the guys sitting there split the total.
“And if it’s a table with only girls, the girls split the bill amongst themselves,” he added.
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Since he was obviously the only guy at his table, however, he wound up getting stuck paying the entire $700 bill!
He claimed that the servers just walked the bill up to him and practically shoved it in his face. Despite his girlfriend being right next to him, she didn’t even say anything, either.
Instead, she just watched him pay the tab. Then, all of her friends thanked him, and the dinner ended.
As soon as he paid, however, he really felt taken advantage of. He knows that if he had personally invited people out to dinner, then he would have happily paid the bill.
Yet, he didn’t bring up his disappointment about what happened until days later– because apparently, he felt weird since he had only been dating his girlfriend for a few weeks.
Regardless, after he came clean about his feelings, his girlfriend just told him that it wasn’t great before pointing out how that’s “just how these types of banquet dinners work.”
Plus, his girlfriend tried to reason that, in the future, if she went to another dinner without him, then someone else’s boyfriend would pay her tab.
Quite frankly, though, he doesn’t believe that “paying it forward” is a reasonable excuse for having to pay $700 for strangers at a birthday dinner.
“Honestly, I feel like it’s a scam she and her friends have so girls never have to pay for these birthday dinners, trying to get nice guys to pay,” he revealed.
Thankfully, he claimed he is fortunate enough that the $700 dinner did not put a significant dent in his finances. But regardless of that, he works hard for his money and feels like he had no other option.
“I would look cheap and embarrass my girlfriend if I didn’t pay for them– which even my girlfriend admitted she would have felt had I not paid,” he vented.
Still, in the wake of the dinner, he cannot stop thinking about all of the possible scenarios that could have played out. So now, he’s been left wondering whether the other girls should have offered to pay or if he should have just put his foot down and only paid for himself and his girlfriend.
Have you ever been to a dinner party like this? Does it seem like he got taken advantage of? Should he have said something to his girlfriend sooner? If you had been in this situation, would you have paid?
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