Let’s Go Out, But You’re Paying For Your Own Stuff
The Date:
Once inside, we sat at the bar and talked while drinking our beers. He let me know there was dancing upstairs and asked if I wanted to go up. I told him not just yet. I wanted to hear the band first. After awhile we both ordered some wings. Now, I remember saying something to the effect of, “I can pay for my wings if I need to.” And I don’t remember what he said, but I do know that when the bartender asked if we wanted split checks he said no. So the night is going good, conversation is flowing (oh yea, he says his wallet got stolen the week before so he only had cash on him) and the band sounds great. So then he says, “You know you seem a little uptight. Do you want another drink?” (FYI: I only had that one beer. By this time he had had about 6 beers.) After about 10min of him asking, I finally said okay. He told the bartender to make me a Amaretto Sour and he ordered another beer. About 30min later I told him I was ready to go upstairs and dance. So he said, “Okay cool. Let me get the tab first.”
The WTF?!?:
The bartender brought the check over to us and he looks at it first. I glance over and see the total is about $54. So while I’m calculating a generous tip in my head he put the ticket in the middle of us and said, “Okay, let’s see what you had.” WTF??? I’m thinking “Oh, hell naw.” But maybe he’s talking about the wings so I didn’t say a word, after all I could pay for that. He called the bartender over and all I heard him say was, “Can you split this.” Then I couldn’t hear anything over the music, but I did see him pointing then I read her lips as she said, “All of that?” I’m just thinking, “All of what? It’s just wings.” He tells me that he’s going to the bathroom while she splits the check, so we can go upstairs. So he’s gone and then she walks back up to me with a separate check with a total of $21 on it. Turns out he is making me pay for the beer he ordered for me before I got to the bar, the wings I ate and the Amaretto Sour he insisted that I have. The bartender said, “If I knew he was going to make you pay for that, I would not have split up the check.” It was at this point that I knew I had a decision to make about the way I was going to handle this. Here were my options:
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