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, 2 replies)

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)