gloria.p wrote:

> That's what most people would do, but unfortunately not all.
>
> We have been to dinner with people who order every course on the menu,
> particularly when someone else is picking up the check, then take half
> (or more) home and enjoy it for lunch all the next week. And they
> order all the a la carte extras. We try not to go out with these folk
> more than once, but sometimes it is a business dinner and we have no
> choice.


We had a guy at work who I will call Andy, because that is his name for
whom we coined the phrase "getting Andyed". we were on expense accounts
when we were on the road so we would just pay for our meals and submit a
claim. Andy was working in the same area as me and wanted to meet for
lunch. We went to a place that had good food and great prices. This was
a few years ago, but even then, $3.25 was a pretty good deal for soup
and sandwich with fries and coffee or a small soft drink. Andy ordered
fish and chips with extra fish, a large soft drink and then a chocolate
sundae.

When it came time to pay the bill, Andy didn't have any money so I had
to loan him $10 to pay his. A few days later when I asked him for the
money he didn't have it. He had to wait for his expense cheque to come.
The day after his expense cheque came in he still didn't have it. I
started hounding him for it. Finally, a few weeks later, a bunch of us
were working together and we were going to flip to see who would go for
coffee (and pay). I offered to do it.... if Andy paid me the money he
owed me for his lunch. He begrudgingly gave me the $10, and then it cost
me $5 for coffee, so I got half of it back.

The SOB had sucked me into paying for his lunch, claimed it on his
expense account. I am out $10 and he is up $10 plus a free lunch. It
seems Andy had a habit of doing that. We tended to avoid going out for
meals with Andy, and on occasions when we had to, we made him show us
that he had money, and made sure that he did not order more than he
could pay for.