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I usually whisper, "I'll flip every table in this joint if you don't take my card, including the one with that child at it", and while it has a 100% success rate, I can't help but feel terrible about it, later. What are some alternatives?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What do you mean take your card? Why wouldn't they take your card?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could take the other guy's. The problem is that both are insisting to pay.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Why would they do that? It seems unreasonable that they need to use some tactic.