On 2/5/2014 1:08 PM, wrote:
> It's from 1985. Just stumbled on it. Not quite about cooking, but I thought it was pretty interesting when it comes to certain modern confusions.
>
> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...t-paying-steak
>
> Dear Miss Manners--I took my friend Sam to a fairly expensive place for dinner, making it clear that I was paying.

(snippage)

That was fun, thanks! My take: she said she was paying. She didn't add
the caveat, "but not a whole bottle of wine".

She's the one who asked if he wanted some wine. Broadly hinting (by her
account) she would only drink *1/2 glass* of wine... guess what? Some
people are clueless. They don't pick up on "hints". Or, her good buddy
could have been mooching.

Thankfully, by 1985 I was assertive enough to speak my mind. After
springing for an expensive meal I'd have politely offered to buy us each
a *glass* of wine. Thus eliminating the idea of a bottle of wine in (or
on!) his head.

BTW, a bottle of wine doesn't hold all that much. She claims she had a
half a glass. He drank two. Even with small wine glasses, there
wouldn't have been much left to "present" to the waiter. Certainly not
enough to gripe about, unless she really did want a full glass.

Did she ever say what that bottle of wine cost?

Jill