Last weekend, my friends and I went out to dinner. Everyone ordered pricey meals and drinks, while I kept it simple. When the bill came, I suggested we each pay for what we ordered. Before anyone could respond, Lisa rolled her eyes and loudly called me \u201ccheap,\u201d telling me that if I couldn\u2019t afford to eat out, I shouldn\u2019t come. I was embarrassed, but I let it go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A week later, we went to Lisa\u2019s extravagant birthday dinner. She ordered everything in sight \u2014 drinks, appetizers, the priciest entr\u00e9e, dessert. When the check arrived, she suddenly \u201cforgot\u201d her wallet and paused dramatically, waiting for someone to cover her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one volunteered. We all remembered last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I calmly put my card down and said, \u201cI\u2019ll pay for myself. Just myself.\u201d Everyone else followed, paying only their own share. Lisa was left to cover her massive bill, and her face turned bright red as she slammed her card down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now she claims I<\/em> embarrassed her \u2014 but honestly, she managed that all on her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Fictional story inspired by real events.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend, my friends and I went out to dinner. Everyone ordered pricey meals and drinks, while I kept it simple. When the bill came, I suggested… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":169,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20756,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20754\/revisions\/20756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}