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A Question of Etiquette
Jul. 2nd, 2018 09:14 pmMy friend, J, is having a birthday this Wednesday. J is one of the people I play D&D with on Sunday evenings. He's in his 20s, a nice kid, but a stereotypical millennial snowflake. Anything a Conservative says is automatically Wrong and EVIL. That sort of thing.
Anyway, his birthday is this Wednesday and his parents are taking him out for hibachi. So J invited all of us to come out with him this Wednesday and celebrate his birthday.
Oh. But we'd have to pay for our own meal.
Um.
Excuse me?
Maybe I'm just showing my age or something, but I was raised so that if you invited someone out to dinner or something, that you paid for it. You didn't ask them to pay for their meal.
Well, it's sort of a moot point as the store I work at will be open this Wednesday and when I get off work I'm just going to come home, hunker down and ignore the fireworks as much as possible.
But, really? Am I wrong? Have social niceties changed? I'm genuinely curious what people think.
Anyway, his birthday is this Wednesday and his parents are taking him out for hibachi. So J invited all of us to come out with him this Wednesday and celebrate his birthday.
Oh. But we'd have to pay for our own meal.
Um.
Excuse me?
Maybe I'm just showing my age or something, but I was raised so that if you invited someone out to dinner or something, that you paid for it. You didn't ask them to pay for their meal.
Well, it's sort of a moot point as the store I work at will be open this Wednesday and when I get off work I'm just going to come home, hunker down and ignore the fireworks as much as possible.
But, really? Am I wrong? Have social niceties changed? I'm genuinely curious what people think.
