"Overall it mostly works out."
Exactly.

I have absolutely no idea whether I've spent more money paying for my oldest friend than he has paying for me. Maybe he owes me some cash, maybe I owe him some cash. Neither of us knows, and neither of us cares. It all balances out in the end.

And that's how I handle buying rounds, paying for meals, cinema tickets, stuff like that. Some I win, some I lose, but it all evens out. And if one of my associates is cuntish enough to avoid paying his fair share for long enough that the rest of us notice, he soon ceases to be an associate and the rest of us consider the extra cash it cost us a decent price to pay for getting rid of him.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 0:33, Reply)