He only orders the expensive meals at restaurants when someone else is paying.
We went to lunch as guests of another couple. Prices on the lunch menu ranged between $12 and $36, with a large variety of food choices. The host and the host's wife ordered menu items in the $20 range. My friend picked the most expensive item off the menu.
I was taught that when someone else is paying, you should choose something from the menu in the same price range as your host. Am I wrong? If I am correct, how do I approach this issue with my friend?Something similar happens at buffets and potlucks, where he will stuff himself to an uncomfortable level, eating at least three or four times the amount he would eat at home. If I question why he is making a glutton of himself, he tells me not to spoil his fun.
When it is your turn to host — and assuming the behavior does not so offend you that you, as, no doubt, many of his other friends, lose interest in going out together — choose a less-expensive restaurant.What would you do if you were hosting a dinner party, invited the guests, and one guest RSVP’d: “I would love to come. However, I have another engagement, so I will be late.”The guest arrived late by one hour and 30 minutes.
How can I avoid this in the future? What is the correct way to tell someone that if they have another engagement, they should choose which one they will attend?Miss Manners realizes she appears to have misunderstood what her guest was saying, but she prefers to believe that your friend could not be guilty of an intentional rudeness. All but the most brazen guests will take the hint.
Those who do not should enjoy the repeat of the meal that you improvise when they do arrive, because it will be their last as your guest for some time.
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