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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/SEO403 on 2023-09-06 09:42:57.
(6 people, not 7)
It has been a very dramatic couple of weeks.
I am currently on holiday in my country of birth. I suggested an old friend of mine join me to get dinner. He asked me whether he could bring 3 women and a man he is cool with, which I agreed to. I also suggested we go to the place I rented after dinner as it was pretty nice.
I suggested the restaurant, and everyone was fine with the location. We got there and everyone started ordering and ordering, cocktails, lobster, sushi… everything was fine, we were having a laugh.
The bill came. It was 770€. I told my friend we should all split evenly, he was cool with it, and the other guy said he was kind of broke right now and could only spend 25€ despite eating close to 100€ worth of food or more. I knew things were about to go south.
Two of the women were on their phones silent and disengaged, and the other woman had the audacity to openly and confidently suggest I be a gentleman and cover the bill as “You are clearly doing better”.
I asked her why she’d assume that and she said “That’s what it seems like on IG”. Mind you, all I have on my IG are pics of holidays and business-related stuff. No fast cars or any of that.
I told them that I didn’t know them and that this was not a date. She said that they didn’t expect to have to pay. My friend said he isn’t dating them either, he met them all at work.
I was getting upset at the entitlement and asked my friend whether he told them anything pointing towards me paying, he said he didn’t and that each of them always pays for their own things. I suggested he deal with them as he invited them over.
It became a back and forth with the three of them of “too expensive”, and “not fair”… It was fair when they were ordering like they had a money fountain clearly, but not when it was time to pay.
I got fed up and said that I was not even going to split it evenly anymore and just cover my spend (52€) and that I was going home on my own, which seemed to offend them even more than splitting the bill.
I stood up, went to the counter, told the waiter what I consumed and that each would pay for their own stuff, paid and went back to the table. Apparently, aside from my friend, none of them had enough for the bill, or so they said. I felt a little bad as they were trying to figure out how to pay, but I ultimately didn’t and instead, I ended up being petty and giving a big tip to the waiter in front of them.
Had they not been entitled about it and said it before agreeing to come, I would have at least considered it. But not like this.
AITA for refusing to pay for the whole bill?