Is it rude to pay and leave a restaurant before the friends you were eating with have paid (you're all riding together)? You know, you're done paying, but instead of waiting for your friends you go and sit in the car.
Is it rude to pay and leave a restaurant before the friends you were eating with have paid (you're all riding together)? You know, you're done paying, but instead of waiting for your friends you go and sit in the car.
Hmmmm. If I were the friends being left in the restaurant I think that I would find it rude. And rather odd/awkward. If the two parties were not riding together and goodbyes had been said, then it would not be rude/odd.
I think it is. I know some people who do it and it drives me crazy! Don't rush me especially if I am driving.
Depends. Were they talking about personal stuff? Were they potentially going to start some sort of relationship beyond the friendly-type, or did it appear as though it was going to go that direction? Had you just eaten entirely too much Indian food, and ultimately realized that you were in no state to sit there in your overly-stuffed, slightly uncomfortable body wondering when you could have the soft cushiness of the car and eventually a couch?
Oh, and if you just picked up some new music and you were just wanting to kick back listening to so some new tunes instead of a conversation (that may or may not have been of a personal nature or may have just been a subject that'd been overly discussed and driven into the ground), I'd say that it's totally fine.
But that throws a lot of conditions at the question...
In general, yeah, kinda rude. Unless you do it a lot, in which case, I'd write it off as a quirk and not be the least bit offended.
Is this possibly a guy thing? I can imagine guys not wanting to wait around for each other. Possibly important, this was work lunch. We're all decent friends though, so that shouldn't be an excuse. I think my coworkers see me more as "one of the guy" and don't even think about it being rude to leave me there alone.
And yeah, with one of the guys it's probably a quirk... he does it quite often. The other one, he never does this, to me at least.
Were you guys all just in line to pay and when the first person was done he left the restaurant, and when the second person was done, did he kind of hover around and then realize he was standing over some people trying to eat, so he slowly wandered out(but didn't get in the car) so that he wasn't hovering, and did that person also think you were closer to being done paying than you really were? If all of that happened, then I would say the first guy is quirky and the second one is probably really cool!
I'm not exactly sure what the other two did. I just know I turned around and one was almost out the door and the other was already in the car. Why would they be hovering around someone's table? They should have been standing by me, keeping me company. Or maybe they should have just paid for my meal!
Did you walk up to the register as a group, or did you stay at the table much longer? If you offered to pay for his meal, I am certain he would have stayed up at the register with you.