its fun to go out in a group of friends and have a decent meal but what happens when the bill comes? i've thought about this in many different approaches before. there are basically 3 types of people.

1) pay for my share and my share only, down to every penny.
2) give abit more than my share (no small change) and asks whoever to keep the change.
3) sits quietly in the corner while everyone is counting the money strewn across the table and hopes no one realises he hasn't paid.

3 is a jackass and the problem goes way back to his principles so lets not talk about 3.

lets talk about 1 and 2's actions.

i think its reasonable to wanna take back all the change that is rightfully yours because it is afterall, your money. then brings us to the value of money. what is 20cents to you? on the other hand, what is $2? so is it okay to take back $2 change but not okay to take back 20cents? let me emphasize that this is friends splitting the change and not the change you take from stall vendors.

what character are you trying to portray when you ask your friends to keep the change? do you really not care about the money because its your friends or do you just not wanna seem uptight about money. or do you think its a charity? i guess there's no fault in wanting to keep the change or the last person who handles the money will have to awkwardly keep it.

i think its a socially awkward situation that has plagued many of us before. im guessing most of us are either those who say 'keep the change' because you simply dont want to look like a miser in front of our friends or those who really dont want to keep the coins. honestly, i've rarely come across friends who take back every cent that is rightfully theirs though i do have 1 or 2.


oh well. just something i thought about on the bus ride home.