# "no, I WILL PAY" song and dance routine

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-will-pay-song-and-dance-routine/25545>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 14, 2000, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-will-pay-song-and-dance-routine/25545 "2000-07-14T11:15:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-will-pay-song-and-dance-routine/25545/21 "2000-07-14T19:10:50Z")

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> It would be nice to have a game plan for the first time I sit down to dinner with a table full of financial “equals.”

Yes, it’s nice. We have friends we’ve known for a decade, and we’ve been struggling, and we’ve been doing okay. We have always let the next drink fall with whoever’s getting up, in the knowledge that it will work out even when we’re old. Not counting is nice.

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