To think my friend is a tight arse???

[FataliePorkman]

Just been out for lunch with three friends and our DCs- the children all had the same (lunchboxes with a carton drink and then a small crispy cake) but us adults ate/drank varying amounts. Two of the friends are a couple and the other is single like me. Let's call her Joan.

3/4 of us shared a bottle and extra glass of wine and 2 soft drinks. Joan didn't drink as she lives further away from the pub than us so was driving.
We all had a starter and a main course and then we got a chessboard to share between us- but only me and the couple had some. Joan had 3 DC with her, I have 3 DC and the couple have 1 DC.

Anyway the bill came and friend from the couple suggested we split the bill 3 ways equally. I was fine with this, as were the couple. Joan refused and said she would only pay for what her and her DC had.

Awkward tension followed- Joan paid for her meal and her DC while me and my other two friends split the bill.

AIBU to think she is a bit tight??

where are the dads of the six kids they made

OK Jean clearly you ARE the mothereffing Daily Fail here for a shitstir. Good work

Love you all.

I think I have a point though, there were six kids there with person A and B, and one child with couple C.

So break down the bill again for me.

TEAM JOAN

I'm Team Jean Joan. Jean is OP, yes?

Jean you've so obviously made up your mind, I'm not sure why you're bothering to ask others to break down the bill for you. Aren't you able to scroll up the thread where several posters have done just that?

Ah come on.

We need to challenge some of this shit. OK I might have been challenging but honestly.

Six kids versus one. Go think about that in the context of the OP.

Joan had three as did OP, the friends had one DC. Anyway. Onwards and upwards.

Six kids versus one. Go think about that in the context of the OP.

Go look on the thread where posters have already provided costings for three children and one adult versus two adults and one child.

Well, "Jean" clearly if you judge your friend "Joan's" life choices as a mother of 3 so harshly, when you and your lovely DH stopped at 1 child so you could spend the extra on affording cheeseboards and wine, then she's better off without you, honestly.

Ridiculous!

So six kids versus one is ok in a group?

OK.

< wanders in.
Checks for spreadsheet from OP
Wanders out, sobbing gently >

It isn't six bloody kids verses one. It's three family units eating together.

One adult, three kids
One adult, three kids,
Two adults, one child.

I think you're being deliberately obtuse jean.

@NoSquirrels,

I am sorry but I found your post very hurtful. I made no mention of my own circumstances. That was awful of you.

I was talking about the OP information.

"Ah come on.
We need to challenge some of this shit.
OK I might have been challenging but honestly.
Six kids versus one.
Go think about that in the context of the OP.
Joan had three as did OP, the friends had one DC.
Anyway.
Onwards and upwards."

Is that a code? Is MN being used to pass on secrets to Russia?
Or is the bizarre structure part of the trolling?

Is it some form of Haiku?

On second thoughts, Occam's Razor, poster is drunk seems most likely.

P.S. Team Joan.

When you say "deliberately obtuse", Purple, you're using it in the commonly understood way of "goady fucker", yes?

Team Joan. I am also on a very tight budget but still want to socialise with my friends sometimes. I have a small amount of money for outings, that usually has to be removed from another part of my budget for the month. I would be livid if I had to take some money out of my electric/gas/grocery budget because I was made to pay for someone else's indulgence.

Thankfully we usually just pay for what we each ordered. Would not like being put in Joan's situation, and neither would my friends.

So three groups go to eat.

Group one has three kids, no dad that day

Group two has three kids, no dad that day

Group three has mum and dad and one kid. That day. They want the bill shared.

Have to fight your corner here for sure. But I will.

Night all. We should be at each other's backs. But bitchyness rules sometimes. OK luvvies.

Nytol, for now.

Jean wtf?

Why are you mentioning Dads?
You're turning it into one of those hard maths questions about 'if a car is travelling at 30 mph on a windy day, how long would it take to get from A to B' My brain is hurting.

Wonder what cheeses where on the board.

None. It was a chessboard. In my head it was up of delectable alternating squares of dark and white chocolate, mmmmm. I don't know how Joan could bring herself to resist.

Jean
I dont think there is any possibility that one adult meal and 3 kids meals would come to the same as 1/3 of 4 adult meals, 7 kids meals plus a bottle of wine, a glass of wine and a cheese board.

Its not difficult to work that one out. No matter how goady you are being.

Feral,

Thank you for being humurous. I mean no harm really.

Willow, I am not being goady at all. But if you think I am what can I do?

I am just a poster on here enjoying the banter and putting my view forward in relation to the op.

If you can debate with me that's fine, put your counter arguments forward.

It is so easy to call someone goady and just retreat, isn't it?

Fuck no, Jean is not tight.

Jean is smart.
Be like Jean.

#TeamJean

So are you ever coming back?

If you can debate with me that's fine, put your counter arguments forward.

It's difficult to "debate" with someone who brings up absent dads on the basis of absolutely nothing at all and can't be bothered to read the thread for the information they've repeatedly asked for.