His Friends Called Him Rude For Ordering More Food On A Night Out And Making The Bill Even More Expensive, Which Came Out To Close To $800
This 21-year-old guy and a group of his friends, and his girlfriend went out to a fancy dinner recently to celebrate one of their mutual friend’s birthday.
The whole thing was planned out by his friend’s partner, and the atmosphere and dress code were super upscale.
He and his girlfriend checked out the restaurant prices beforehand and set themselves a budget so that they didn’t just blow a bunch of money in one night.
The night of the party, he and his girlfriend managed to stay under their budget, ordering two entrees and one appetizer to split between them.
Everyone was having a good time, but he realized that his friend’s partner was ordering quite a lot of expensive food and drinks.
At the time, he didn’t think much of it, figuring that his friend’s partner just wanted to splurge for a special occasion.
However, when the bill came around, his friend and his partner shared with the group that as a gift to the birthday boy, the bill would be split between the 10 of them.
At first, he wasn’t really phased by this since it was a very close friend of his that they were celebrating, and he had a good job and could have afforded to split an expensive check.
But the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was unfair to him and his girlfriend.
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The total bill was already close to $800, and the group was still planning on getting deserts, aside from him and his girlfriend.
Additionally, he and his girlfriend hadn’t ordered any drinks that night and had gotten significantly less food than everyone else at the table.
“If they communicated prior to the dinner as an obligation, that’s one matter, but suddenly telling us after everyone is mostly done eating dinner seems sketchy at the very least,” he explained.
So, he and his girlfriend had a quick text conversation about what their next move would be, and they both agreed that they would order expensive desserts for everyone to share to raise the price of the bill even higher.
Then, when the bill came, some people in the group could no longer afford to pay for their fair share of the total.
His friend’s partner was one of these people, and his friend accused him and his girlfriend of intentionally raising the price to be out of their budget.
They were bickering, and he tried to explain that it was kind of rude for them to expect everyone to pay for stuff, but his friend argued that it was his birthday and that it was perfectly reasonable.
“To keep the peace, I paid for only his meal but left his drink and dessert tab for everyone else to split,” he said.
“I left with my girlfriend and paid our bills. When we were leaving, they were still arguing over the bill.”
The following morning, he noticed multiple social media posts made by his friends, calling him rude for ordering extra food and raising the bill at the party.
While his girlfriend is on his side and thinks that he did the right thing, he’s still upset by the whole situation.
Do you think that he was wrong to order more food? Do you think it was rude of the hosts to wait until halfway through the meal before saying that the bill was going to be split among the group? What would you have done in this situation?
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