[TrudyM]

I have noticed that peoples attitudes toward sharing and who pays can really change over time. When visiting people I hadn't seen in a few years I noticed, that the same people that in years past always put in their share towards the check and were mindful of the cost of what they ordered; now order the most expensive thing on the menu and assume the member of our party that sold his business for a nice profit a few years back will pick up the bill. My husband slid him our share and paid the tip. Afterwards I said to his wife I couldn't belive no one even offered to leave the tip. She said it had been that way ever since they had sold the business. Isn't it rude to assume that the rich guy is going to pick up the tab. We were probably the couple with the least money attending that weekend and we wouldn't have gone if we didn't intend to pay our share.