Every night out with millennials ends with an accounting session. "Okay, John, you bought me a beer, so I'll send you $6. Steve, you rode the Uber with me, but I had some of your guac, so I'll request you for $1.38. Dave, we each bought each other a beer. I think the price difference was $1, so I'll send that to you."
What ever happened to saying "you got the last round, I'll get this one" and calling it even?
Whenever I meet up with old friends, they study the receipt to figure out exactly how much each person owes. I just hand the waitress my credit card and say "I got it". What's a few bucks between friends? They eventually did the same, much easier now.
Meanwhile, my (not rich) dad was always fighting for the check among friends to pay for everything at restaurants. They would sometimes even pretend to go to the bathroom to sneak over and pay before the check came to the table. Not sure if it's generational, or an Asian thing.
zzzz wrote:
Meanwhile, my (not rich) dad was always fighting for the check among friends to pay for everything at restaurants. They would sometimes even pretend to go to the bathroom to sneak over and pay before the check came to the table. Not sure if it's generational, or an Asian thing.
As a past waiter, it is an Asian thing (not just Asian, other eastern cultures too, but definitely not a North American thing)
zzzz wrote:
Meanwhile, my (not rich) dad was always fighting for the check among friends to pay for everything at restaurants. They would sometimes even pretend to go to the bathroom to sneak over and pay before the check came to the table. Not sure if it's generational, or an Asian thing.
Sounds like he spends money he doesn't have in an effort to impress his friends. Explains why he isn't rich
Racket wrote:
zzzz wrote:
Meanwhile, my (not rich) dad was always fighting for the check among friends to pay for everything at restaurants. They would sometimes even pretend to go to the bathroom to sneak over and pay before the check came to the table. Not sure if it's generational, or an Asian thing.
Sounds like he spends money he doesn't have in an effort to impress his friends. Explains why he isn't rich
No, sounds like he enjoys being around his friends and likes to express that by being generous and picking up the check. For many people enjoying the company of friends and family is much more important than hoarding money in solitude.
If everyone pretty much had the same thing, just split it evenly. But if one person decides to get a meal and everyone else just gets a beer or two wouldn't want everyone else to pay for that one person's meal. It's often easy to just dish over a five dollar bill or something to the person that paid the whole thing.
And millennial people are currently about 23 years old to 38, so you're talking about 30 year old people here. I don't see the OP's post behavior unless it's people in college (they don't have money) and people a year out of college (still no money... yet)
So it's not a millennial thing, it's a thing for people that don't have money and a few dollars means a lot because their bank account is probably $2k or less unless daddy pays for everything.
LoL yep wrote:
Whenever I meet up with old friends, they study the receipt to figure out exactly how much each person owes. I just hand the waitress my credit card and say "I got it". What's a few bucks between friends?
Great. Now imagine you are 22 with a much lower income and barely any savings.
The Way of the World wrote:
LoL yep wrote:
Whenever I meet up with old friends, they study the receipt to figure out exactly how much each person owes. I just hand the waitress my credit card and say "I got it". What's a few bucks between friends?
Great. Now imagine you are 22 with a much lower income and barely any savings.
My friends and I used to equally split the bill, even in college. There's always that one guy, though, who will order an appetizer, entree, and three cocktails, while everyone else gets a salad and a beer, and won't bother to volunteer to throw in a few extra dollars. Oafs ruin everything.
wow.... wrote:
Racket wrote:
Sounds like he spends money he doesn't have in an effort to impress his friends. Explains why he isn't rich
No, sounds like he enjoys being around his friends and likes to express that by being generous and picking up the check. For many people enjoying the company of friends and family is much more important than hoarding money in solitude.
This is correct. He's not the only one, the friends/other family are always trying to get the check too.
"Hey Jayden, thanks for covering that buttplug for me. Is it cool if I Venmo you $45?"
"Sure Duncan, you got the poppers last time"
lol at OUR generation
Hahahahaha. That's such a funny thing that has probably NEVER ever happened. You're good at jokes.
Millennials do tend to obsess about money. When I hang out with people who are even 5-10 years younger than me, I’m amazed by how much thought and discussion revolves around it.
I think it’s a result of being in their formative years during the Great Recession. Their spending and consumption patterns were set at a time of real uncertainty, if not legitimate financial hardship.
The Way of the World wrote:
LoL yep wrote:
Whenever I meet up with old friends, they study the receipt to figure out exactly how much each person owes. I just hand the waitress my credit card and say "I got it". What's a few bucks between friends?
Great. Now imagine you are 22 with a much lower income and barely any savings.
Is a 22 year old a millennial? As someone mentioned above, we're talking about 30 year olds. I always thought a millennial was someone who graduated high school around the year 2000 (the millennium). Hence, millennial.
[quote]Borderline Millennial wrote:
Every night out with millennials ends with an accounting session. "Okay, John, you bought me a beer, so I'll send you $6. Steve, you rode the Uber with me, but I had some of your guac, so I'll request you for $1.38. Dave, we each bought each other a beer. I think the price difference was $1, so I'll send that to you."
LOL at Boomers and Gen Xers investing their life savings in pawnzi schemes and and handing out faulty loans in 2007-2008 causing the greatest financial disaster since the Great Depression