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The Bill

Do you say anything?

The Bill

Six of you at dinner. You had a salad and tap water. Two of them ordered steak and three bottles of wine. The bill lands and someone says, cheerfully, let's just split it six ways. It's forty quid more than you owe.

Do you say anything?

Then ask

  • Does it change if one person at the table is broke and it isn't you?
  • What if you were the one who ordered the wine?
  • How much does it have to cost before you'd risk being the difficult one?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Pond
  2. The Deathbed Promise
  3. The Windfall
  4. The Payslip
  5. The Ring
  6. The Novel
  7. Who Stays
  8. The Will