Dog3 wrote:

> Same here. There are people out there that are just cheap. I stopped dining
> out with 2 friends because they were immediately belligerant and always
> stiffed the waiter after running them all night. The friends would bitch
> all evening about one thing or another. They are fine people but sort of
> turn when they sit down at a table in a restaurant. Every time I dined out
> with them I had to sneak money to the waiter or hide it under my plate.


You must have met MY ex-friend. At first we kept thinking we'd take her
to less expensive restaurants so she'd stop bitching about how nothing
was worth the price. Then she got so embarrassing, we didn't want to
take her to our favorite inexpensive restaurants. She'd still be
bitching while we wanted to crawl under the table, hide and apologize to
the waiters we knew we'd be seeing again. She seemed to be energized by
the prospect of complaining to the management. Finally, we gave up and
stopped trying to dine out with her. Then she wanted to complain that a
delivered pizza wasn't hot enough or didn't have enough pepperoni or
something. Bleah.

--Lia