My opinion is that you experienced the cost of having children, which is sometimes you're going to be strategically interacting with people you have no other connection to. By absolute definition, yes, you slightly subsidized the pizza of two other couples. If this bothers you, then maybe you need to make a decision about if you'd rather get out the calculors and protractors or relax and enjoy your day.
Yeah. BAC, you're my friend and I know you to be an honest man of good faith. But I think this is something you just let slide. Or just avoid any splitsies scenarios with the couple in the future.
Fair enough. I guess the ironic part is that despite how lib7 is choosing to frame me, (as a petty, penny pinching vindictive a-hole with an ever running leger of perceived slights), that couldn't be further from the truth. We don't fret over money, whereas Doug and Mary care big time about every red cent, and obviously when people are so diametrically opposite it can be a source of friction. Doug and Mary are going to make damn sure they are never stuck holding the bag on $8/slice pizza night but have no compunction about putting
others their invited guests in that position. To KK's point, as soon as the girls are old enough to not need both sets of parents to be present when they get together, i'm quite positive our interactions with Doug and Mary will kept to a minimum. For us, the biggest concern is going to be making sure that our daughter always has sufficient monies on her anytime she goes over to their house, b/c we fully expect that they fully expect her to pay for anything they do that has a discrete cost associated with it.
and yes
@Trim you nailed it and at 6:31 i knew that was the right move but i didn't have the heart to break up a playdate where the kids were all having a great time so i rolled the dice and hoped that whatever financial transaction was going to take place later that night would be agreeable for all parties.
