On 2018-01-11 9:33 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 1/9/2018 7:41 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 1/9/2018 5:49 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-09 4:55 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> I can think of a worse case. A couple I know who went on vacation to
>>> an all inclusive resort in the Caribbean. The wife drinks very
>>> moderately and the husband does not drink at all.Â* Friends of theirs
>>> went to the same island but stayed elsewhere. The other couple are
>>> both successful lawyers and are high rollers. Instead of eating at
>>> the all inclusive, for which they had already paid, these guys went
>>> out for dinner everything with the high living lawyers.Â* The lawyers
>>> would order a couple bottles of very expensive wine.
>>>
>>> The couple I knew were a little miffed about having to split the bill
>>> and pay for the very expensive wine they did not even drink.Â* I am
>>> wondering how they even get themselves into a situation. It would be
>>> bad enough that it happened once, but apparently it was every night.
>>
>> That's their fault, fool me once and all.Â* Clearly they were getting
>> something by hanging around with these other people or they'd say No
>> thanks, we're eating at our resort.
>>
> There are some people who feel more important if they hang around with
> people who have more money than they do. <shrug>Â* One dinner, had a nice
> time, then thanks but we've got other plans.
>
>>> They could have eaten a meal they had already paid for in the all
>>> inclusive, but instead, they ended up paying for meals elsewhere and
>>> subsidizing a couple who are much better off than they are.
>>
>> After the first meal they knew what they were in for.Â* They shouldn't
>> keep complaining about it.Â* And the well off couple is like, look how
>> cheaply we partied.Â* Don't hang around with takers.
>>
>> nancy
>
> Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses!Â* I wonder if they could have
> invited the lawyer couple to dine at "their" resort?Â* The couple staying
> there would eat for free as registered guests but the other couple would
> have had to pay for their own dinners, right?Â* Turnabout is fair play.

These are friends of my brother and his wife. I have mentioned them
before as the couple with the lovely kitchen full of the best appliance,
but which are never used because they go out for dinner every night. She
is also the one who had been invented to a birthday party for a
neighbour and was asked to bring not one but two roasted tenderloins
and two bottles of wine that had been specified and turned out to be
very expensive.

The couple they were dining with are neighbours who are both lawyers,
the man of the couple being a very prominent criminal lawyer. They are
high rollers. I guess maybe they figure they get brownie points for
being able to say that they hobnob with this couple. I just wonder how
many times they got sucked into leaving their all inclusive resort where
the dinner and drinks are already paid for and then go out for an
expensive meal elsewhere and end up splitting the bill on very expensive
wine that they did not even drink.