The Oatmeal: What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year in high school - math

[geardaddy]

[Festivito]

1. That's easy. Pay what it takes from your education fund; include a hand-delivered tip.

You just learned who not to go out with again, unless you do not mind people who remember how badly you treated them as they prepare your food. In which case, let me know, because, then, I do not want to go out with you, or them.

[snappyturtle]

2. Oh I gotta save this for my college educated server daughter!

She has to battle this crap everyday!

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[jeff47]

6. Step 1: What do you like to do?

Step 2: How can you get paid to do it?

Repeat as necessary until good answers are found for both questions. She doesn't have to 'love' it or have a 'gift' for the thing she likes - that gives it too much weight and results in 'deer-in-the-headlights'. You need to start just with what she enjoys, no matter how trivial, and go from there. The 'gift' for it will develop on it's own.

[Obamanaut]

7. Part of your last paragraph may be considered insensitive when read

by people who have family members with developmental disabilities. It's in this section "...she is like a functioning..."

[Evasporque]

4. $2 for every $10....how hard is that.....??nt

[hunter]

5. The rich dude with the credit card pays.

Or maybe credit card guy just wants everyone to think he is rich, which is okay too.

Debit card guy never pays. If that pisses you off you shouldn't have gone to lunch with him. Even if he tried to use his card he's got less than $20 in the bank because that's the minimum the ATM machine will spit out. He gets grouchy when he can't get his$19.03 when he needs it at 2 AM in the morning, damn it. He's also sitting their fuming that he didn't have wine but everyone else did, by the glass, and not just a carafe of the house box wine. He would have had some of that box wine, even if he didn't ultimately pay for it.

Make sure the server gets a decent tip, since it's less than eight people and probably won't be included in the bill. Maybe credit card guy paid the tip anyways just to show off, but be certain. Best thing to do is throw a whole mess of cash down on the table, more than your share, and then sit back and enjoy the drama. It's worth the extra money.

Or maybe you are rich credit card guy, you don't care, because what the hell, it's a company card and this was a business lunch, heh, heh, heh... Everything to you is business.