Female Doctor Gets Invited To Dinner By Her Fiancé And Future In-Laws Only To Find Out She Has To Pay For The Entire Bill
Shame on this woman's SO and his family.
Some dinner tabs are awkward, but this New Year's Eve meal turned into something much worse. A female doctor thought she was joining her fiancé and his family for a normal celebration, only to end up facing a bill she never agreed to cover. The trouble began when it was time to pay, and her fiancé, his parents, and the rest of the group seemed to expect her to handle the whole thing.
By the end of the night, she walked out of the restaurant instead of paying for everyone. Now the internet is weighing in on whether she was wrong to leave them with the check.
We wonder if they're still loveable at this point.
Footingbills321Yikes!
Footingbills321Anyone would be taken aback by this.
Footingbills321
She'd probably be willing to pay if it weren't this extravagant.
Footingbills321
So, it's her fault now?
Footingbills321
Her question.
Footingbills321
It's probably a good thing that they're not married yet.
OkBullfrog7875
That dinner already sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
She'd be put in this situation countless times if she marries the guy.
Footingbills321
Some Redditors believe the guy is just in it for the money. She is a doctor, after all!
Icy-Cold8692
The original poster needs to break off the engagement.
GoodGirlsGrace
She needs to reconsider.
GoodGirlsGrace
The parents are so ridiculous.
TheSilverNoble
The right etiquette is to go Dutch.
matlynar
What the dad said was just way out of line.
Laurelinn
True! They only need to transfer the money to her. So why force her to pay for the ultra-expensive dinner by herself?
Miglin
This is where the comments start piling on.
This feels like the split-bill dinner argument where a friend ordered expensive extras and the other person finally snapped.
This would have been interesting.
harbinger06
The parents aren't willing to pay; that's why.
madeofstarlight
The foreseeable future
jailguard81
This family is the only one that expects the invitee to pay up.
Sfb208
Scammers is the right word indeed! They're a family of scammers!
Middle-Yoghurt
The marriage isn't worth it.
calling_water
She has to dump him now, or she'll have expensive dinners to pay for in the future.
type1error
Uh oh! We hope it doesn't come to that.
zuma15
They obviously planned it.
BOSSBABY33
The parents' "brilliant" idea
Sabrielle24
The original poster needs to run for the hills.
Darth_Lawyer
Redditors agree that the original poster isn't the a**hole in the situation.
No matter what etiquette book you read, you'll never find one that can defend the behavior of this thick-skinned family. The least they could do is pay for what they ordered.
She probably did herself a favor by walking out. And she probably needs to walk out of her fiancé's life as well.
The sooner, the better! Because at this point, it seems that it's not only the guy who's taking advantage of what she's earning.
Wait, this gets even messier, like the WIBTA standoff where the OP insisted friends pay after leaving her with the bill. read that group dinner blowup.
