Dear Queenie,
Some people we know invited us to join them at a restaurant for a celebration in honour of a mutual friend who is getting married.
Afterward when we got home they called us and told us how much we owed them for the bill we left without paying. We apologised and said we had forgotten, but the truth is we assumed the hosts would be paying.
Queenie, since when are guests at a party expected pay their own way?—Stuck with a bill
Dear Stuck,
If you have to pay your own way you are a participant, not a guest, and the person(s) who invited you are not hosts, but merely organisers.
The “hosts” should have made it clear when they invited you that the event would be “Dutch treat.”
