Although with my religious company, it tends to be the awkward little dance while we figure out which brand of religious everyone is, and if they expect to drink or not.

"What's the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist?"

"A Methodist will speak to you if you run into him at the liquor store."

The "let's just split it" thing can be really irritating. I'm fine with roughly equal; I get pretty testy when it's a fairly large table and a couple of people say "Let's get appetizers! Let's get bottles of wine!" Then, after I've had one or two beers and none of the wine, they say, "Let's just split the bill."

There was actually a whole Friends episode about this very thing

Yeah, oft times especially in high tax cooed people forget how much to add. Hil, I always said 30% in a big group in dc, especially to be on the safe side and because people are bad atath and cause I tip twenty.

Also I have a wrist tattoo, but it's not super noticeable, i can wear long sleeves or a bracelet. Which doesn't work as well for boys, I think.

However, if you do this, make sure you actually pay for everything you ordered, plus tax, plus tip.

Yes, this. I had a friend in college who would never put in for tip (partially on the excuse that he hadn't ordered as much as the rest of us and partially because he didn't believe in tipping). Wound up costing the rest of us a fortune over the years because no matter what he ordered we'd always have to chip in extra to cover him.

I had a friend who never added in tax while figuring out what she owed. It was a weekly thing, so it added up and it bugged.

Luckily, I am close enough friends that people are pretty up front about being all "I've got $25 buck -- I bought this and here's my tip." We have one friend who's a cheapskate, but we've been buying dinners for 15 years, so we know that we're going to have to tell him "You have to chip in more than that." And his wife knows he's cheap, and will even out the bill.

If you're offering to buy dinner, only make the offer to people who know won't soak you on it. Otherwise, I'd say offer to take them out for drinks instead. Or, with friends and family, say "Let's get some dinner. My treat, as long as we keep it under $x."

When people buy me dinner, I make it a point to ask them "Do you mind if I have a drink?" and I try to keep it reasonable. And I let them order first, to see what they're doing and try to follow their lead.

My tats don't show at a job interview, but you can see them in most tanks tops or some tees with a looser neck cut. I'm a teacher in MO, and I'll occasionally get a look or a comment, but the students think it's cool. Many of my co-workers have tats.

I want a wrist tat, but it would be very small, and I would get it placed so that I could wear a bracelet or watch over it in an interview.

I'm bored. TCG has one of his late meetings tonight, and I think I have reached the end of the internet.

Hey, sj. I'm waiting for my iTunes to update so I can sync my iPhone.

I have lots to watch on the DVR, though, so I should probably do that.

Amyth is in the process of moving out and I'm a little sad, though I will still see her almost every day.

smonster! Hi!

I only have one hour of tv left on the DVR that isn't something I should save to watch with TCG. I'm watching it now because the baseball game is going badly.

I just got a dehydrator, and I'm dehydrating strawberries. Which actually isn't really me doing anything, since I just washed and sliced them and put them on the tray and turned it on, and they'll be ready in the morning.