Man furious after friend ordered meal worth double his and asked to split bill

Going out for dinner with your mates should be easy. Pick a place, eat some good scran, pay for it, leave.

But it’s not so easy when you can’t agree on how to cover the bill.

I mean if there’s one good thing about a quick Nando’s it’s the payment being covered by each of you from the beginning.

Usually the easiest option is to split it right? Only that’s not always so simple.

There’s nothing worse than your mate expecting you to split it evenly with them when they’ve taken the absolute p**s.

No pal, I’m not paying for your luxury main and three sides when all I had was a chicken wrap.

And that’s exactly what happened to this man when his friend ordered a meal worth double the amount of his.

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Martin Blyth-Sweetingham told the I Newspaper that he and his wife had gone for dinner with two friends.

Both of his mates ‘drank alcohol all night’ but as he is ‘virtually tee-total’ and his wife was seven months pregnant at the time, so neither of them had any booze.

So already, their bill is looking cheaper than their mates’.

But then his friend decided he’d treat himself to a tasty tomahawk steak for tea.

Only it wasn’t exactly treating himself.

Blyth-Sweetingham had figured out his wife and his bill would come to about £40, which he claims was ‘coincidentally less than our friend’s single steak’ on its own.

But his friends decided that they’d settle the bill of their boozy steak dinner by splitting it down the middle.

So he was left the foot the cost of them having a good old, expensive, time.

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He told the I Newspaper: “My friend said 'I'm not one of those people who likes to argue over pennies'.

"There was an almost £70 difference in our bills! My jaw hit the table. But I didn't want to make a fuss, so begrudgingly tapped my card.”

So, despite working it out at £40, the bloke ended up tapping his card to pay £75.

And all that got him was a burger, fish and chips and two soft drinks.

Now he’s left living with a fear every time he goes out to eat with mates. I mean, it must be like PTSD whenever the card machine appears.

Blyth-Sweetingham added: “The arrival of the bill always fills me with some apprehension. Are the other party going to be fair? Are we going to embarrass ourselves in the restaurant as everyone fights over calculations?

“We're normally pretty happy to split, but when the other party has ordered excessively, we'd expect them to at least volunteer to cover their extra costs."

Topics: Money, Food And Drink

Jess Battison

Jess is an Entertainment Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include keeping up with the Twitter girlies, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021 and has previously worked at MyLondon.

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