Eatiquette

Gay Men Offer the Paradigm of Post-Meal Magnanimity

The Awl has a pair of amusing posts this week about that perennial source of dining-out drama: the splitting of the check in group scenarios. Heterosexual male Neel Shah would like all the cute, smiley girls out there to know that it really grinds his gears when they play dumb at check-splitting time and try to lay down barely enough for what they ate, forgetting about tax and tip. (“If you’re not even sleeping with me, why am I paying for you? Your less cute friends don’t pull this shit.”) Then homosexual counterpart Choire Sicha retorts with some perspective from the lesbian and gay sides of things. Lesbians, in his experience, take check-splitting drama to a level that “literally defies parody,” but he focuses on tables full of (albeit well-heeled) gay men as shining examples of how we all should behave at the end of a meal — each person pleasantly angling to cover the check, calling out, “It’s my turn!” with someone always having slipped the server his Plum Card ten minutes earlier.

How To Split A Check At A Restaurant [Awl]
How Gays Split a Check at a Restaurant [Awl]

Gay Men Offer the Paradigm of Post-Meal Magnanimity