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Radical Personal Finance

1005: How to Navigate the Social Financial Complexities of Dining Out So You Can Have a Great Social Life Without Breaking the Bank

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast, I cover something that is intensely practical: How to handle the social complexities of mixed dining. You know the feeling...you've gone to a nice dinner with friends, the bill arrives, and no one reaches for it. Now what?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance a show dedicated providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now.

0:07.0

Well, building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:09.5

My name is Joshua Sheets and today on the podcast, I want to give you some dining etiquette help you

0:14.5

save a little bit of money when you go out to eat but first we begin with a

0:18.8

story so I get invited via my home grow to go to this girl's dinner.

0:23.5

I don't know her like that. I think I met her once through my home girl a while ago,

0:28.3

but I was like, you know what, I'm going to go because you're invited me.

0:31.8

So I go, I get to grow a little gift or whatever.

0:35.1

When I pull up, the first thing I realize is,

0:37.8

first of all, everybody's on time.

0:39.8

And second of all, a lot of people showed up for this girl's birthday dinner.

0:43.8

It was over 12 people.

0:45.7

Probably over 15.

0:47.0

I couldn't, I never seen as many people at a birthday dinner

0:50.3

at a restaurant in my life.

0:51.8

As a nice going, you know, people are buying their drinks and things like that.

0:56.7

But when what I started noticing is people's orders, you know, I'm a very observant person,

1:02.1

so I started noticing people's orders and people they was ordering two and three appetizers

1:08.4

Three and four drinks the best biggest T-bone steaks with the gold on it and this and truffle fries and this and

1:17.5

this and everybody was doing their thing so something I don't know what it was at

1:22.4

certain point of the night after, you know, people was, you know, finishing up their plates and ordering their last drinks and stuff like that.

1:29.0

I had to go to the bathroom, but something hit me on my way to the bathroom like you know just stop and pay for your mail

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