Not at all. It's just that now I don't know whether to send Kevy $10 or $6.32. :confused:

I thought you were straight...?

In this entire discussion, I have tried to do two things:

1. State my own opinions on tipping and how I acknowledge that my tipping tends to be higher than others
2. I have NEVER asked for recompense for any money

If you don't agree with how I came up with things (or for any other reason), YOU DO NOT NEED TO SEND ME MONEY. I will not be keeping track of who does or doesn't. And I don't care if anyone does. I have not and will not ask for money on this. No one is obligated to send.

In this case, I feel that the extra money was warranted, especially in light of all the fiascoes of split bills and an extra hour of her time just to try to make sense of everything.

Is anyone REALLY straight?

Yeah, I'm not sure what to do about the discrepancy myself. Though I'm leaning towards sending $10 for the two of us still. He shouldn't have been stuck with covering the difference either way, so I do think it's still fair to attempt to recover as much of what he laid out as we can for him.

I mostly did the math to point out that the shortfall wasn't as dramatic as it appeared based on the original math, not because I feel like Kevy made some horrible decision that should cost him $40.

I understand that, and as I said, I wasn't indicating that the tip was unnecessarily exorbitant.

But with "shame" and implications of theft being tossed about, I thought I'd point out that it was based on a somewhat inflated number and that the reality of the situation was notably different than the original premise given.

And given how many other times this has happened and he's covered I think it's the least we can do.

Yeah, duh. I was only kidding about the $6.32. I've got a ten dollar bill on its way to Kevy right now. (Um, don't be alarmed that it's in a law office envelope!)


What I wasn't kidding about is that I won't even start to pay my portion of the tab until Kevy leaves the restaurant. Maybe I feel bad for all the "Who Has Kevy's Credit Card" jokes I make when he's not part of the dining party.

True that! I've already paid enough for my own excessive drinking. :D

At $85 there was certainly room for error on the restaurants part - some possibilities I was aware of:

• Tiggs leaving early and paying her share on a separate bill - was that removed from the original?
• The bread ordered at the first table (but never delivered) - did that still get added to the final bill? I know they at least got my drink I ordered at the first table.
• The Lashpair ordered a bottle of wine and got a glass instead and o[ted to change their order. The bottle didn't end up on our tab, but did it make its way onto one of the other splits?
• Then there's EH's overcharge - where did that come from.

I think we all paid good attention to our own, but once split there was no way for someone to oversee the total and find any item unaccounted for. Lessons learned for next time. Maybe a prix fixe buffet is the best route to go for a group of such size...