coming up short
this weekend we went out for elaine's bday! we lucked out with a last minute cancellation and got a private room at nolas. although the dinner plans were so last minute, there was a great show out - about 18 people. i ordered the skirt steak...it was ok but not as good as i remember it. next time i'll get the filet. after dinner we headed over to old pro and went bull riding! elaine, cindy and i all did one round of the mechanical bull. they went a little faster on me, but it was fun! if the cut on my knuckle didn't open up and start bleeding, i would have gone again.
anyhow, in reference to the above - while paying for the bill for dinner, we came up short. someone made a comment that whenever we go with a certain race of people, the bill is always short. although i haven't noticed coming up short to be limited to race - it's really annoying. I always end up putting in my share and then putting in a lot extra. it's ok when it's only my friends. but it's annoying when it's not all my close friends. arg. anyways...
it rained cats and dogs the rest of the weekend. hunny was studying all weekend so i got a haircut, did some errands, bought new shoes, and went to see cindy's and dick's newly remodeled townhome. sat night hunny and i watched crank on satellite. not the greatest movie but entertaining. sunday we went to have pancakes at Original Pancake house. mmmmm...blueberry pancakes with blueberry compote.
when the sun finally started peeking out on sunday - i could smell spring in the air. yay!!!!
posted by melsybo @ 10:53 AM
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4 Comments:
usually when I go out with people, no matter what the group is, we always come out with a bunch of extra money that we try to refund to people who refuse to take it back. :) I like my friends.
Rule 1: Don't just assume everyone will give you the exact required amount due to various reasons! Especially if the party is big, break up into sections and assign your most trusted close friends to collect and count the exact amount, so that you won't come up with short anymore.
most of the time when it's my close friends only , we never come up short. generally it's more than enough
It's usually certain people I go out with is when it comes up short. For some reason they don't think they should include tax or tip. After we realized who it was, we started calculating their share for them.
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