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Splitting the Bill · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas, Dear mama's, what
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  Speaker 1: is the proper etiquette for splitting the bill these days?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask American mamas.
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  Speaker 3: Alma mama, and joining us now are American Mama's turn
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  Speaker 3: Outville and Kimberly Burleson's.
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  Speaker 1: So you're out to dinner and everybody's having some food,
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  Speaker 1: and then somebody says, okay, well, why don't we all
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  Speaker 1: just split this evenly?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, Well, let me tell you what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I was just I really wish we had had cameras
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  Speaker 1: rolling at that point, because the look on.
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  Speaker 2: Your face was out there's a story there.
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  Speaker 1: It was like I had just stabbed you or something.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was reminiscent of my days as a Delta
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  Speaker 2: flight attendant when we would all go to dinner flight
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  Speaker 2: attendants and pilots and they drink. I don't drink. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: would drink, and but we split the bill and pilot's
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  Speaker 2: drinking good enough exact, and I'm having to like split that. Recently,
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  Speaker 2: I went to eat with a group of friends and
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  Speaker 2: the bill they all drink and I don't drink. They're
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  Speaker 2: getting margarita's. The bill was five hundred dollars and that
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  Speaker 2: is with tip. Okay, and so one lady says, okay, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: just I'm gonna pay for it, y'all. Just if y'all
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  Speaker 2: would just eat s beend on me one hundred dollars,
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  Speaker 2: We're good. My part was maybe twenty dollars and I
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  Speaker 2: would get like a cup of soup and water. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I got like a little salad, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: just wasn't even hungry that day. It was just like ugh,
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  Speaker 2: so I been moode a hundred. But I was so angry.
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  Speaker 2: I was so mad, bitter. I was so mad, and
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  Speaker 2: I kept trying to and my husband was like, let
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  Speaker 2: it go, it's no big deal. I'm like, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, am I reaching the age where I'm like
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  Speaker 2: this old person and I'm like, no, let's pull out
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  Speaker 2: the calculator. I'm not like that at all, because I'm
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  Speaker 2: all about making sure that there's a big tip. But
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  Speaker 2: it just felt so yucky to me, irritated me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to go eat with them anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Right, It felt lots.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I felt. I'm not gonna go eat with you.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those things like if you go eat
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  Speaker 4: with your friends and you're all basically getting the same thing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and it's you go, yeah, let's just split
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  Speaker 4: it four ways or whatever. We do that all the time.
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  Speaker 4: So in a situation like that, when if I am
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  Speaker 4: the one that's gonna say, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: pay for that. I'm gonna pay for the bill, everybody
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  Speaker 4: you know, just you know, pay me whatever. I think
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  Speaker 4: the way you handle it, if you're the bill collector,
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  Speaker 4: you were recognized that somebody had a salad and water
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  Speaker 4: and everybody else had their margeritas and whatever else they had,
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  Speaker 4: and say all right, I'm gonna pay for this. Can
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  Speaker 4: we I see that you didn't even drink, So I'm
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  Speaker 4: not gonna make you pay a hundred dollars, but whatever
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  Speaker 4: your bill was, just pay And then if y'all can
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  Speaker 4: you know the rest of us, let's you know, pay
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  Speaker 4: this bill.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, why are we even playing this game?
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we just say to the way to tickets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's we're splitting this up. Yeah, I got mine.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they keep track of that, right, you know
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  Speaker 1: they should. We'll go out to dinner with friends, and
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  Speaker 1: then is this all one ticket, we'll split it. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: it is, or you know if I want to if
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  Speaker 1: I want to, yeah, one tickets, here we go. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if if I want to do that. But I never
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  Speaker 1: play this game of Okay, well everybody got something different.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna pay the bill and then y'all
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  Speaker 1: all pay me the same.
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  Speaker 4: Some people look at the price first. They may get
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  Speaker 4: something other than what they really want because they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: they don't want to pay ten dollars extra for the I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you what that game feels like. That game feels
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  Speaker 1: like socialism, exactly socialism. If I want to buy what
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  Speaker 1: I want to buy, I'm gonna buy what I want
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  Speaker 1: to buy, and the waiter or the waitress, the server,
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  Speaker 1: they know how to divide that up. That is literally
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  Speaker 1: their job. And if I give a bigger tip than
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  Speaker 1: you do, that's on you, buddy, not on me, right,
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  Speaker 1: And the waiter or waitress or the server will know
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  Speaker 1: that I'm the more a polite and and and the
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  Speaker 1: just the better person because I gave a bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Tip, right, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if we start splitting this up and I
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  Speaker 1: got to have exactly what you had and that's man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is not MoU's March for a greater society.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes I can see where you do that. I
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  Speaker 4: can see where like there's a big party and you
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  Speaker 4: are I mean, we've done this before where I didn't
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  Speaker 4: feel offended. This feels different because you had a salad
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  Speaker 4: in water and you had to pay one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 4: for that.
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  Speaker 2: It was just awkward.
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  Speaker 4: That's awkward, and that's that's actually rude.
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  Speaker 2: Well, also at the very beginning, like what you're saying,
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  Speaker 2: she did tell the lady said, is his separate checks?
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  Speaker 2: And she goes, no, give it to me, that's what
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  Speaker 2: she said. So she made that decision.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, then you pay it, I know.
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  Speaker 2: But she said give it to me. And then after
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  Speaker 2: the fact, she's like, if everybody can just ben known
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  Speaker 2: me a hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Dollars, I can't make me my own little So.
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  Speaker 2: She made money off the Yeah, to me, I'm convinced
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  Speaker 2: she wanted the points on her credit card. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm like one of those points. I'm like, that's
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  Speaker 2: where my head goes now with everybody, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes perfect. Otherwise, just no, we're separate. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just put the check it out.
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  Speaker 2: That's the easiest way.
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  Speaker 1: And again that's the job of the person who's working there.
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  Speaker 1: They have been trained in how to do this. That's
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  Speaker 1: very easy to keep track of who had what. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you could order whatever you want and then
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  Speaker 1: they'll just bring you what someone else brought.
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  Speaker 2: So now you don't want to go.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're like, I'm not, no, I know not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know if I like them anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I'll love them, are just the ones that one.
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  Speaker 2: Either because I know who it is, she's dead to me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you would like to ask our American
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  Speaker 1: Mama's button. Terry Nutivillekiley listen, thank you so much, Thank you,