<p>Great story, Old Fort. This is the other side of my life too, angling to pay the bill with asian family. My S, now living in China has seen people come to blows over who gets the privilege of paying the bill. </p>
<p>I tend to feel I can feed a group in my home for the cost of meal out for just me. But I don’t serve much meat.</p>
<p>jym - Your husband sounds like mine…and we do the exact same thing with friends, taking turns picking up the tab. So far, we haven’t been burned yet (knock wood! ;)). </p>
<p>When with family, he actually insists on paying. My family is the sort who will have none of that…they start throwing cash at him. HIS family, well…they’ll let ya pay. But we don’t mind, we wouldn’t have offered if we didn’t mean it.</p>
<p>I have to say though…if that friend and her brother invited you and your husband out, they should have assumed the hostess/host role and insisted on picking up that bill!</p>