{"id":23489,"date":"2024-12-23T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23489"},"modified":"2024-12-23T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:51:12","slug":"i-refused-to-tip-300-after-being-invited-to-a-dinner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23489","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. I asked my parents to come too since we were celebrating their grandson. When the bill came, my father-in-law paid the $1700 and asked me to pay the 18% tip because \u201cI brought guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I refused and left. My wife was quiet. Later that night, I got the most horrifying text on my phone. It was from my wife. 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 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. 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<p>Do you think my reaction was wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My in-laws invited 12 relatives to a fancy restaurant for my son\u2019s graduation. I asked my parents to come too since we were celebrating their grandson. 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23490,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions\/23490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}