{"id":1367,"date":"2025-02-07T20:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:11:42","slug":"i-refused-to-tip-300-after-being-invited-to-a-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Tip $300 After Being Invited to a Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My in-laws invited 12 relatives to a fancy restaurant for my son\u2019s graduation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I asked my parents to come too since we were celebrating their grandson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the bill came, my father-in-law paid the $1700 and asked me to pay the 18% tip because \u201cI brought guests.\u201d I refused and left. My wife was quiet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Later that night, I got the most horrifying text on my phone. It was from my wife.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>She wrote, \u201cForget about me for some time. You ruined our only son\u2019s celebration and embarrassed me in front of my entire family for a few hundred dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went home and froze when I found our room almost empty. My wife had moved out and taken almost all of her stuff. It\u2019s been three days, and she still doesn\u2019t answer her phone.<\/p>\n<p>I know she\u2019s angry, but I expected her to stand by me instead of blaming me. It\u2019s her dad who insulted my parents by treating them as unwanted guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My in-laws invited 12 relatives to a fancy restaurant for my son\u2019s graduation. &nbsp; I asked my parents to come too since we were celebrating their grandson. &nbsp; When the bill came, my father-in-law&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}