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- From: "Amy Young Leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: How come?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.153653.5745@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <4439@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:36:47 -0500
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- In article <4439@unisql.UUCP> wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
- > How come if you go out to lunch with a bunch of men, you get
- >the check and it's, like, forty bucks so you go "Right, 10 bucks each,
- >I'll leave the tip" but if you go out to lunch with a bunch of *women*
- >it's, like, "Well, *I* had the chopped liver and the small ice tea so
- >I owe $4.97" and "*I* didn't have any dessert so I only owe $3.23" and
- >so on until you're waiting for someone to whip out the ol' Hewlett-Packard
- >with 59 programmable functions and figure it out to the 9th decimal
- >place? Why is that, huh?
-
- Maybe you're hanging out with a bunch of penny pinchers?
-
- I don't normally do this, nor do the people I know do it. It's
- normally a split it up and let's get out of here thing. If it's just
- two of us, a friend and I who commonly go out and such, its, "I'll pay
- this time, you can treat next." I do this most frequently. It's easier, and
- it's nice to go out and not have to worry about paying, because you did
- last time.
-
- If I went to dinner with someone and I had the $4.50 taco salad and
- they had the $18.00 lobster tail special, then yes, I would compute
- the ballpark of what I owed. But in most cases things are pretty
- even.
-
- amy
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