Jehovah's Witnesses and restaurant bills

by usualusername 50 Replies latest jw friends

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  Splash

  All these stories are familiar to me as well.

  Everyone ordering the most expensive food in the hope that it will get split evenly and their meal is subsidised, or that someone (I often did it) would just say at the end "this is on me".

  Then there's those who have worked out that if they pay last they can ask "How much collected so far?" so they make up the small difference, because everyone else has dropped in a little extra for a tip.

  I've ended up telling people "No, your meal was x amount - the extra in here is for the staff, not to pay your meal". It's a bit embarrassing but it happens EVERY time.

  Splash
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  whathehadas

  Good Thread. There were times when I was invited to eat out and I TRIED to decline because of a shortage of money but.......the "friends" wanted me to come anyway and pay for my meal. This happened to me quite a few times. I knew I didn't have the money but they would insist I come. I sure as hell....didn't go to the restaurant and pick the Shrimp and Steak feast but a small inexspensive dish. So I'm sure this has happened to others. Not to diminish the fact that quite a bit of the JW are cheapos and picky at that. I think the mentality in the Org is that there is so much love that things like eating out with less money will be taken care of by Jeho....I mean brothers.
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  Splash

  And it's never worse than at the End of Service year Pioneer Meal, where all the pio's celebrate getting their time in by going to a cheap restaurant, ordering a cheap one course meal with water, then try to stuff each other with the bill when it arrives.

  Literally counting out the pennies.

  Whathehadas: You try to explain it's going to be expensive but they still make you go? That's pretty shameful. I'd thank you for being so honest and say that I'm happy to help out if you actually wanted to go.

  Splash.
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  Splash

  Oh man, too many memories coming back now, what have you started lol !!!

  I've even been out to a restaurant and when the bill comes someone hasn't enough to pay their share. Happy to eat everything going, but didn't bring enough to pay for it.

  Or at a pub when it's someones round, either "Oh, I have only got £x, can you lend me some?", or "I think I need to get myself off now, thanks for the evening!"

  You get to know when someone is always late arriving at a pub because they know the first round is often the most expensive. Or they order Guinness (pricey!) on everyone else's round and a small beer when it's their round.

  This thread is cathartic

  Splash
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  whathehadas

  @Splash Yeah it wasn't like I didn't tell them and went anyway. They knew from the jump. I have been on the other end, when people wouldn't make it clear that they were short and I had to pay more. I hate that group, eat out crap with the witnesses. All that time sitting at the end trying to figure out the bill when we could easily had seperate bills to start!
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  hoser

  We had a pioneer that suffered from memory loss. Every time he would go out to eat with someone else he would have forgotten his wallet at home. It happened more than once, but only once with me.

  hoser
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  Heartofaboy

  Pio's are the worse for standing back & waiting to be paid for!

  They seem to think because 'they are making such a sacrifice & giving their all to Jehovah' that he's gonna turn round & bless them by making you feel obliged to cough up from your hard earned income.

  It made me so angry when my family decided to invite & treat some pioneers to an outing for the afternoon. I heard them saying it was a blessing from Jehovah.............

  I felt like shouting 'It was us that brought you here NOT God'
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  RubaDub

  We had the same situation when we went out with two other couples in the KH. We had been "burned" once before and did not want it to happen again.

  Solution -----> When you know the other people are over-ordering, just "go to the bathroom" during the meal and ask to see the waiter. Give him a green handshake for his extra work ($10 seemed right at the place we were) and then ask him/her for separate checks for each couple. That's it!

  You should have seen the eyes on one couple's face when they got their bill and their's was about double what ours was (we just ordered a few glasses of the house wine, they ordered a bottle in the $75 range). In the end, it was three couples and before tax and tip, one couple paid about $70, we paid about $75 and the other couple who had the tendency to "split" things evenly paid about $150.

  Folks, a small tip to the waiter can get separate checks done in no time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Rub a Dub
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  Splash

  Rubadub
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  DaCheech

  my wife says that when she was dating her ex............... she got stuck with the bill a couple of times