People have been left outraged by one woman’s assumption that her parents should pay for her – and her own children – when they dine out together at restaurants
A woman has reached out for advice after revealing her sister’s dining habit – and people are outraged by her sibling’s ‘entitled’ behaviour.
The lady revealed that her sister insists that their parents pay for her and her children’s meals when they all go out for dinner, something that makes her very uncomfortable. Sharing the situation on social media, she asked: “When you get invited out for lunch or dinner, as you were invited to join, is it expected for the person who invited you to pay?
“It’s just me and my sister as siblings but she keeps getting shirty cause our parents invited us to join them for dinner and then didn’t pay for her and her family.
“This has happened several times between mutual friends and our extended family and our parents. I don’t know what it is but I’m the complete opposite. I always pay my part or offer to split the bill.” She added: “A couple of weeks ago my mum and sister were discussing where to eat.
“I didn’t mind so let them choose. So mum made a suggestion, it was mum, me, sister, my kids, her kids and she said as our mum suggested it she said she should pay for it. My sister is saying people are rude if they invite you out and don’t pay. She’s married and her partner agrees with her.”
Needless to say, people had plenty to say on the matter. “That’s so entitled!” one wrote. “Always pay for myself unless the other person insists.”
A second agreed: “I would never go with the assumption someone was paying for me, I would also decline the offer to come if I couldn’t afford it. If it’s then offered to me or someone decides then to pay great but generally speaking I go with my own money.”
And a third echoed: “She sounds so spoilt. Pay your own way and if you can’t afford to then don’t go in the first place.” It comes after another woman sparked a different restaurant debate – this time over children’s bad behaviour.
The 23-year-old was out enjoying a meal with her family in a restaurant which was catered to families, when a child aged around nine started yelling, running up and down the aisles and doing cartwheels.
“It was annoying but we just ignored him and carried on with our meal. His mother was sat at their table talking to the adults she was with and completely ignoring her son apart from occasionally telling him to come and finish his food,” the woman wrote on Reddit .
“We were sat in a booth and I had my stuff on the bench next to me, including a hat. One of the many times he ran past our table, he stopped, picked up my hat and put it on.”
Just as the boy went to run off with the hat, the woman sharply told him, “give that back right now,” and he obliged, with an embarrassed look on his face. The woman went on to tell him “it is extremely rude to take other people’s things without asking, don’t do that again”.
“His mum heard part of what I was saying as she came up to us and angrily told me to leave her son alone; I explained that he had taken my things and I was telling him not to,” she explained.
“She told me I shouldn’t stick my nose in and that as he’s ‘just a kid’ and that I should have just let him play with the hat, or asked for it back nicely without scolding him.”
The woman then turned to Reddit to question whether she was justified in ‘scolding’ the child, and she was met with overwhelming support. One reader concluded: “Kid needs to learn some manners somehow and it seems like his mum isn’t going to be the one teaching him how to act properly in public.”
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