Entitled In-Laws Leave a $1 Dollar Tip on a $240 Bill That I Paid For
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 15 September 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My entitled in-laws decide to leave a $1 tip after I picked up their tab of over $240. |
| 0:07.0 | But now after I asked them to pay for their own meals in the future, |
| 0:10.6 | they've called me ungrateful, claiming that I should be glad that they showed up to spend time with me in the first place. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm honestly so blown away by their entitlement that at this point I seriously don't know what to do. |
| 0:21.5 | Here's what happened. |
| 0:22.6 | So every other week my fiance and I go out to eat with her family and last week we went to a Korean |
| 0:27.9 | barbecue restaurant owned by my uncle where I paid for everybody's meal. I only |
| 0:32.4 | asked them to cover the tip for the waitress, which they agreed to do so. |
| 0:36.0 | The total tab was over $240 and I just paid for it. |
| 0:40.0 | Usually when I cover the tab for my friends or significant other they generously tip since |
| 0:44.8 | they're only responsible for the gratuity not the cost of the meal itself however |
| 0:49.2 | a few days ago my cousins revealed that they had only left a $1 tip and they have done this before. |
| 0:55.4 | I was shocked and disappointed because a $1 tip is insultingly low, especially considering |
| 1:00.9 | I had treated them to alcohol and dessert. |
| 1:03.6 | So I discussed this issue with my fiance. |
| 1:06.0 | But her family insists that they never tip. |
| 1:08.3 | Or only pays like $1 for a tip at a restaurant or even just general services. Mind you, this is happening in the United States. |
| 1:15.8 | Well, as a result, I informed my fiance that our bi-weekly restaurant outings would have to change. |
| 1:21.8 | I told her that I had only paid for their meals as a kind gesture, and while my fiance was annoyed, she ultimately understood. |
| 1:29.0 | Well, yesterday they asked if I would buy their food again next week, to which I responded that they will need to cover their own expenses for their own meal. |
| 1:37.5 | I didn't want to confront them about their habit of tipping only $1, so I decided to handle it differently this time and simply pretend to cover the tip |
| 1:45.1 | for them. Well, her family did not take to that so well. They accused me of being ungrateful, |
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