15 YEARS AGO TODAY ON XMASTIME #XOTD2009
Dinnertime!!
For years whenever we'd visit each other and go out to dinner
Brothatime!! would pay - he had a riff about me slowly pulling out the
same dusty $20 attached by rubber band to my pocket before he'd wave me
off, "I got it." Now that I work for a living have more money than a normal person can wrap his or her head around, I like to be Mr. Big Man and grab the bill when it comes.
Coupla
weeks ago he, Mrs. Brothatime!!, Paddy Mac and Sistatime! and I were
all back in our hometown having dinner; when the bill came I reached
over to pick up the bill, ready to do my "don't insult me, put your
money away!" routine while refusing to disclose the total - but while
doing so, Sistatime! got a look at the number.
"OH MY GOD!!!!"
she starts blaring, "$50???!?!?!?" I smile smugly, ready to breathe in
the fumes re: how expensive the meal was as well as how casually and
without worry I picked up such a hefty bill.
"$50??!?" she keeps
going, "that's IT?? $50, for dinner? for everybody? Ohmygod, that's so
cheap! That's NOTHING!! Wow!! That's NOTHING!!"
Sigh. I can't win.
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