Mmn Chipotle
Fighting over the bill. Well, the way we do it is.

Sunday my friend had some guests, and as the healthy eaters we are, we took them for burritos.

When we got to the cashier, I handed over my debit card while N was preoccupied with ordering, giving me shifty looks and trying to rattle off the 'three sodium-packed bundles of meaty joy and death with rice and beans' as quickly as possible. Victory!--think I, the man's got it in his hand. I've won this round.

I look at the till monkey and grin; he smiles nervously back. No doubt, wondering why there's a manic-looking woman leering at him suggestively muttering 'swipe it, swipe it'. "This is for all of us," I add, gesturing to the disheveled man-children standing beside me drooling over the marinated vivisected cow.

Spoke too soon...

N darts behind the counter, exchanging my card for his with a hastily whispered conversation. Naturally, I try to get it back, but not without first shooting the cashier a baleful, disappointed glance. I'll be back, but I'll never trust him again.

Now picture two adults having a bit of a scuffle in the middle of a public area, both tugging determinedly on a slip of plastic like spastic seagulls. And then, try not to cringe. I dare you.

Sadly this is not the first and will probably not be the last time this happens.
(Rem Sir, why are you thrashing about on the floor?, Mon 21 Sep 2009, 20:30, 4 replies)

hmmm
It's not THAT cringe worthy. If you go to the South of Asia, particularly with the Chinese this is actually a very common occurrence. You will often see grown men slapping each others hand full of money away to be the one to pay. Or some times you even see two or three men chasing after the waitress, money in hand outstretched.

It's the polite thing to do.
(it's not hash mixed drops, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 7:31, closed)

That's nothing
As an easily-embarrassed child I had to endure my mum and my gran literally fighting (à la "Father Ted - "I'm writing a cheque, I'm writing a cheque!!") to pay for lunch in an olde-worlde cotswold tea shop.

It has left me slightly scarred.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 9:31, closed)

My parents
/ aunts / uncles etc did it every time we were out to a big family dinner. Probably where I picked it up.

I could edit out the cringe part, but we were getting some stares.
(Rem Sir, why are you thrashing about on the floor?, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 15:10, closed)

I love
Chipotle. They're burritos are awesome! now I know what I'm doing for lunch tomorrow!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 1:16, closed)