‘Getting left holding a bill for a stuck up entitled millionaire’: Rich friend dines and dashes during a birthday celebration and leaves a boy and his girlfriend stuck with a nearly $100 tab

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
May 18, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Going out to dinner with a group of people is a bit nerve-wracking when you don't discuss how the bill will be split. Even when you announce that you will not be footing part of the cost for others by splitting the bill evenly, folks look at you like your head isn't screwed on straight. Why did we as a culture normalize paying for others' food? In other countries, separate checks are the norm when you're dining out at a restaurant with several others. Sticky situations like these make for really uncomfortable conversations and possible friendship-ending consequences…

However, dealing with the awkward restaurant bill conversation should not influence you to dine and dash; that's messed up not only to your friends, but also to the restaurant and serving staff you're not tipping. They've provided you with food and service, and you should pay accordingly. The next story you're about to read features not only a dine-and-dash situation, but the culprits are also rich out of their minds… Do people like that do this stuff just for fun? While they're at it, they leave their best gal pal and her boyfriend to pay the bill with cash they don't have… Scroll to read the full story below.

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  • Millionaires have access to everything they would ever need or want, so they need to figure out ways to get that adrenaline rush by cosplaying poor. Running away from a meal you can very well pay for is not only infantile, but immoral. Not only that, but also leaving your good friend to cover the entire check and driving off without them when you know you're their ride…

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  • "Was left holding the bill by a millionaire."

    I've grown up with very little spending money.. so this was a strange to me. My girlfriend at the time was best friends with this girl who was the daughter of the largest
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  • newspaper company in my area.. so rich is an understatement. Beach front, like de d heart of cocoa beach, mansion is where we met her to go out for this girls birthday lunch.
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  • I wanted my gf to have a good date still so I was very clear I was only paying for my gf and myself before we made plans even..
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  • Well, we get our bills all separate like we talked about everything was going great, laughing talking about plans after, going back to this girls house for a pool party etc.
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  • This is when she says they left their wallets in the car and would be right back..
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  • Well 30 minutes later they are not. Just me and my girl just sitting.. waiting.. I paid my tab, a pizza and 2 drinks, like 35$ with a tip I left 50$. I only had 100$ to
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  • start.. figured that's plenty for a lunch date. Well the other two ordered 2 appetizers, didn't share, each at 15$. 2 steak entrees 50$ and drinks so their
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  • tab alone was like close to 100$ after taxes.. So we sat another few minutes trying to call as the waiter has asked us to get up and sit at the bar, wouldn't let us
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  • leave until the bill was paid. I only have 50$ cash.. no credit cards debits.. was a cash only person for a long time.. My gf didn't bring any cash either..
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  • I talk with the waiter and he lets my gf walk back to the car to see what's taking them.. well they left us.. they drove us.. she comes back and is like yea, they left, and are not answering their phones.
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  • I had to call a buddy of mine to cover the bill and give us a ride back to get my truck from their mansion.. Lucky I had a good friend.. wes, thanks for that!
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  • He was ped, after dropping me off he did donuts in their gravel parking area. Throwing rocks onto multiple different high end vehicles before speeding off.
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  • Getting left holding a bill for a stuck up entitled millionaire..
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  • Excellent_Ad1132 Sounds like they did the dine and ditch often. Tell/warn everyone in your friend group. Burn them hard. Best way to shame these kinds of people is in public.
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  • PtZamboat As a restauranteur no way can I detain you for someone else's tab, soooo illegal and you would definitely have a case against me
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  • Terangela Sounds like you were trying to do the right thing. They have no right to make you stay for another patron's tab. Next time tell them all of the dine & dashers info for the cops. Although awkward, it wasn't legally your problem
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  • MarionberryPlus8474 It's remarkable how cheap and petty rich people can be and how much time and effort they will spend to get out of paying a bill.
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  • It's partly conceited "do you know who I am" and partly that they can't conceive of a mere $100 mattering when they have millions. And add a big heap of being raised with being told everyone is out to get your money.
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  • My mom raised $ for charity and it was remarkable how often she found people who were moderately well off donated more than the very rich. Not just on a % basis, either.
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