{"id":8037,"date":"2025-01-04T16:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2025-01-04T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T16:58:40","slug":"i-brought-a-gift-i-refuse-to-pay-for-dinner-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=8037","title":{"rendered":"I Brought a Gift, I Refuse to Pay for Dinner Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9108.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9108.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9108-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_9108-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>My husband and I were invited to my colleague\u2019s birthday at a fancy place. I got home, and she texted me, \u201cThanks for coming. Your part of the bill is $190 + tip.\u201d I was livid because I had brought her a nice gift. I ignored her text. Then, a few hours later, I decided to write to her, \u201cI think I have already paid you with the nice gift I brought ;).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the real shock came the next day. I went to work, and as I walked in, people stared. Another colleague rushed up to me and said, \u201cCan you believe it? One of the girls refused to pay her part of the dinner yesterday! What a cheapskate!\u201d I kept quiet and didn\u2019t reveal it was me. Then, I was shocked when I found sitting on my desk, the gift that I had brought her. She had returned it! I still believe what she did was against etiquette. You can\u2019t expect people to bring a gift and pay for an expensive dinner when you\u2019re the one inviting them. Am I wrong? Stella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I were invited to my colleague\u2019s birthday at a fancy place. I got home, and she texted me, \u201cThanks for coming. Your part of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8039,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}