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I am wondering if this is tightwad behavior or not?
We dined out with a group of couples at a restaurant. My spouse & I asked for a separate check. We paid separately for our order, and tipped separately. Everyone else did the same - all separate checks.
The next morning, 9 a.m. one of the men we'd dined with called my husband and said there was a drink that appeared on his bill that was something I had ordered, a virgin pina colada. He wanted us to reimburse him the amount. However, we checked our receipt and it showed that we had paid for this drink I ordered. So the drink was a mistake that the waiter had duplicated and put on their bill. They insisted we pay them back, though and the wife sent me emails telling me to mail them a check for $4.75. We told them to take it up with the restaurant. My husband had to send them a copy of our receipt showing we paid for our drink. I think these people are weirdo tightwads not just based on this, but other nickel and dime issues from the past. All that over four dollars and seventy-five cents? I wouldn't freak over that small amount of money
But you are freaking out over it, otherwise you wouldn't have posted about it.
Me? I would have paid up once it was apparent they were going to press the issue (which I also think is trivial). Not because they were right, but, to keep the peace. As you said, it's a small amount of money.
Are these people that you see regularly? Maybe just offer to buy them a drink the next time you all go out. I can't imagine making such a fuss over $5.
I am wondering if this is tightwad behavior or not?
We dined out with a group of couples at a restaurant. My spouse & I asked for a separate check. We paid separately for our order, and tipped separately. Everyone else did the same - all separate checks.
The next morning, 9 a.m. one of the men we'd dined with called my husband and said there was a drink that appeared on his bill that was something I had ordered, a virgin pina colada. He wanted us to reimburse him the amount. However, we checked our receipt and it showed that we had paid for this drink I ordered. So the drink was a mistake that the waiter had duplicated and put on their bill. They insisted we pay them back, though and the wife sent me emails telling me to mail them a check for $4.75. We told them to take it up with the restaurant. My husband had to send them a copy of our receipt showing we paid for our drink. I think these people are weirdo tightwads not just based on this, but other nickel and dime issues from the past. All that over four dollars and seventy-five cents? I wouldn't freak over that small amount of money
Ridiculous, I am totally on your side!
What kind of friends are those?
If, they have to take it up with the restaurant.
Soo petty, I would dump them!
Maybe he was mad you asked for separate checks. Lots of cheapskakes like to order more than everyone else and then split the check equally. And yes, calling you about the drink was cheap.
I'd put an end to this relationship or friendship or whatever you call it.
These are some wildly ignorant, cheap people.
Why it was brought up at all is very strange. It's $5.00, not $50.00.
However, as its that big of a deal to them, once they found out you had paid for the drink they should have dropped it or taken it up with the restaurant management or owners.
Said management or owners would have had a terrific laugh at how stupid these people are by the way.
Avoid these people...more than likely they'll try to stick $5.00 of their check onto your bill next time you go out to eat. Count on it!
They are. And very rude and insensitive, too. I'd tell them to shove it, and try to avoid having anything to do with them again. Who needs friends like that?
I wouldn't call that being a "Tightwad" behavior. Probably a$$hat behavior. He should have noticed it before signing the receipt, but he didn't. When you showed the receipts showing the drinks paid for, he should have just dropped it with you. I don't think there's much he can do now because even the restaurant is going to think he's trying to stiff them and ask why he didn't notice it. But he can try always talk to them. Though, the odds are he already did that and got rebuffed. I don't know what other stunt this couple pulled, but perhaps start phasing them out? Not worth the headache.
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