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Only 1 time and unknowingly.
A friend of mine called me one night and asked me if the wife and I were doing anything that night as him and his wife were having dinner and drinks at a local restaurant and would we like to join them.
My wife and I get to the place, Friend and his wife are pretty hammered from drinking for a bit and a pile of appetizers roll out they had ordered before we got there.
We all order dinner ...desert, drinks and hang out for a few hours.
Since this was an outside garden style place, we could walk out to our car easily. At the time I smoked grass and as usual, had some green in the truck. Friend decides that instead of waiting until after we leave, let's walk outside have a smoke, then roll back to our wives and then hit somewhere else.
Were at my truck standing behind it. He calls his wife tells her to get up and come now and bring my wife with him. Now all 4 of us are outside .... he goes, Oh, hey I paid the tab already so its cool if we bail. I knew he has SERIOUS paper ... and had been out a ton of times before where he took care of things. ...
We drive off .... the thing that tipped me off initially something was up was both he and his wife had the hand blown glass stemware and a pretty full drink in my truck as we drove off.
Few miles away he tells me - We never paid and I hope they didn't get your tag on the truck. All the while laughing.
7 years later ... No call from the place, but we NEVER to this day set foot in there.
Net: I was BEYOND pissed at him for doing this, potentially getting all of us jammed up over nothing when combined we pull down close to $1m a year. I felt really bad for the servers and restaurant owner that we bailed on a $200+ tab.
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