Expensive drinks when buying rounds.

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Arghh! I hate buying rounds anyway. But I wish people wouldn't ask for G&T with the more expensive gin. When 3 out of six people want one. It gets a bit pricey!

I rarely worry about it too much as I normally have a large wine which is around £9 a glass anyway!

YABVU

It’s easy to just get your own drinks. I doubt they are forcing you to be involved in rounds? I wouldn’t order a cheap gross gin because it’s someone else’s round.

That’s up to them. They want to enjoy their drink out so why restrict their choice because you think it’s too fancy or expensive. Just get your own drinks

I regularly go out with a group to a place that serves all sorts of drinks all day. Last time we went, one of my rounds was a pint of craft beer, a bottle of beer, a large wine, a latte, a cocktail and a milkshake! It evens out - the person on craft beer was on that all night at about £6 a pint, the cocktail drinker got nibbles for the table, my large glass of wine lasted me so I didn’t get a drink on the latte drinker’s round (we all either sat that round out or got a smaller measure)… If you’re with people you want to spend time with, it won’t matter in the long run - it’ll even out that night or another, or they’re close enough that you can say you’re on a budget. If you’re with people you don’t feel that close too (colleagues, perhaps), simply state you’ll get your own. Censoring other people’s drinks to get them what YOU think they should have is rude and unjustifiable. Do rounds and swallow the occasional price difference (pints of beer cost the same as a glass of win these days, by the way), or man up and say you’ll buy your own. What if someone on a budget decided your shandy should just be lemonade because a shandy’s more expensive than their soft dtink? Bet you wouldn’t like that.

I just laugh and tell them that I buy my own drinks 🤷‍♀️
My friends all know me well enough by now, and those that don’t, soon do.
I’ve never really understood the whole “buy a round” anyway. I buy another drink when I finish my last one. I don’t want a row, and I don’t want to hurry either.

Just say ‘I’m getting cokes, you can get the Bailey’s next time’.

Absolutely nothing wrong with 6 people going to the bar individually.

As another person who doesn't drink alcohol, I don't do rounds. If I'm with 1 other person I might buy them a drink, but there's no expectation.

I just go to the bar if I need a drink. It's hardly a big deal.

You do you. But let's not pretend actually going up to the bar to buy a drink is a big deal.