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Anyone else got a close relative .................
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 19 Jun 2021 03:49 |
......... who takes advantage of you buying the meal to order much more than normally would?? |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 19 Jun 2021 08:46 |
Thankfully, I don't have a close relative like that! |
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JustGinnie | Report | 19 Jun 2021 09:43 |
Not in our family but we do know someone who did similar but with drinks , always had a double when it wasn't their round. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 19 Jun 2021 11:15 |
I can't understand why people pile food on their plates in all you can eat for a fiver places etc, to me no matter how hungry you are there is no need to have that much food. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 19 Jun 2021 18:00 |
I'm glad we're not quite alone!! |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 19 Jun 2021 20:25 |
Sylvia, that reminded me of the RC priest who conducted the cremation service for my mother in law. Fil was then in his late 80s and with Parkinsons so he went straight back to his house after the service while OH did the necessary talking to people at the crematorium, accepting condolences etc. Being a courteous sort of man he invited the priest to join close family and friends back at the house for food and drink. |
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Kay | Report | 19 Jun 2021 23:24 |
There's always some malingerers (sp?) and "takers". Always makes me wish them terrible indigestion and "the trots" next day. Wicked old woman that I am !!!!!!!! ;-) |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 20 Jun 2021 02:25 |
:-D :-D :-D |
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Jacqueline | Report | 20 Jun 2021 15:24 |
Many years ago, mid eighties, we went for a meal with OH's family, his three siblings and partners and his mother. We were celebrating his mother's birthday and OH had booked the table. OH took more than sufficient cash to pay for us and also for his mother. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 20 Jun 2021 15:39 |
How embarrassing did they just expect you to pay for all their drinks etc? Was that the way they had always behaved? what sort of ages are you talking about. I don't blame you not going out with them again. |
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Jacqueline | Report | 20 Jun 2021 15:55 |
Hi Ann |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 20 Jun 2021 17:58 |
Jacqueline .......... |
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grannyfranny | Report | 20 Jun 2021 20:06 |
When I was working, us girls used to go out to celebrate birthdays etc. One such outing we had some new staff join us at a local restaurant, where the meals were much of a price, but the drinks were quite expensive, like a fiver each. We all had a meal and 1 drink, then the new staff decided to have second drinks. One girl had to leave early, so left me the cash for her meal and drink. Then the new staff decided to split the bill equally, so I would have ended up paying for the extra drinks, not just my share, but the share for the girl who had left. I did protest about this, I think the new staff thought we were being petty, but I refused to join in, so I think they did have to pay for their own drinks in the end. It wasn't a well paid job, and one of the new staff was the manager. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 21 Jun 2021 11:08 |
Same thing happened to me in the 60’s |
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grannyfranny | Report | 21 Jun 2021 11:23 |
OH is like that, shirley. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 21 Jun 2021 11:51 |
Going out in groups is always a recipe for trouble with the bill. Normally going with family or friends we have always split the bill equally and that is no problem we more or less all eat and drink the same. However when meeting up with OH's ex RN friends we have always (in the past) opted out of the equal bill for drinks rounds. The others were quite happy for us to do this as, when younger they all knocked back pints and we would just have a couple of drinks each. I think if you can have that agreement from the start it works. Now we are older none of us drinks much anyway. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 21 Jun 2021 12:47 |
Not anything anyone paid for, but I went to a cousin's wedding many years ago and they had a (very nice) buffet. Mum, an auntie and I 'hung back' in the queue, to our detriment as there wasn't much left, and we saw people with piled high plates of stuff they could never have eaten. Same with the sweets, people with 3 pieces of gateau balanced on a small plate. Just greed :-P |
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nameslessone | Report | 21 Jun 2021 13:15 |
Every year there was a ‘works’ do, hosted by one or other sites. One year we were to the back of the buffet queue with ‘our’ boss some places behind us. There was very little choice left. That didn’t happen the next time ;-) |