"Getting a round in" Etiquette

boroboy6872

boroboy6872

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Was at my wife's work do the other week

We got bought a round but when we offered to get them one they turned it down and then 2 mins later went and bought their own

We declined and I felt it was disrespectful to turn our offer down and then go and get a drink, I held my tongue as they weren`t my work colleagues but my wife's

Would anyone else feel the same or would you just shrug it off as it`s saved you money?
 
boroboy6872 said:
Was at my wife's work do the other week

We got bought a round but when we offered to get them one they turned it down and then 2 mins later went and bought their own

We declined and I felt it was disrespectful to turn our offer down and then go and get a drink, I held my tongue as they weren`t my work colleagues but my wife's

Would anyone else feel the same or would you just shrug it off as it`s saved you money?
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I’d be more píssed off of it was the other way round 🤣
 
boroboy6872 said:
Was at my wife's work do the other week

We got bought a round but when we offered to get them one they turned it down and then 2 mins later went and bought their own

We declined and I felt it was disrespectful to turn our offer down and then go and get a drink, I held my tongue as they weren`t my work colleagues but my wife's

Would anyone else feel the same or would you just shrug it off as it`s saved you money?
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You've done your bit.

If someone wants to buy you drinks then as far as I'm concerned it's happy days.
 
It seems a bit strange. Yet I'd probably bite my tongue.

I always offer first. Yet it's really not a giver I'll see one back. I just think it's the 'done thing' and would never think of not asking if in a group.

I hate nothing more than standing at a bar and you've got 5 or 6 people buying one drink each. It takes forever....

'a pint of lager please' x 6😒
 
I would have probably felt a bit awkward for a few seconds but thats all. You offered so couldn’t do much more.
 
Some don't like to get in rounds. They like to drink at their own pace. When you get a few in a round, and don't know if this was the case here, you always end up drinking at the pace of the fastest drinker.
 
Im not tight or anything but I hate rounds.
Used to be in a group of about 5 or 6 - 20 odd years ago that would meet at a pub at around 10 to 1030 pm in the days of 11pm closing.

Obviously it was no fun trying to drink 6 pints in half an hour but some could do it.
Im more or less teetotal these days and I could enjoy 1 pint - 2 at a push.
It just became awkward subsidising someone elses drinking to the point where I stopped going. A shame because I enjoyed the craic but it all became a bit too macho for me.

One person always very quick to point out whose round it was but not too quick to get them in himself
 
HundredRoom said:
Im not tight or anything but I hate rounds.
Used to be in a group of about 5 or 6 - 20 odd years ago that would meet at a pub at around 10 to 1030 pm in the days of 11pm closing.

Obviously it was no fun trying to drink 6 pints in half an hour but some could do it.
Im more or less teetotal these days and I could enjoy 1 pint - 2 at a push.
It just became awkward subsidising someone elses drinking to the point where I stopped going. A shame because I enjoyed the craic but it all became a bit too macho for me.

One person always very quick to point out whose round it was but not too quick to get them in himself
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You went out for the last half an hour?
 
I would be offended .... declined your offer to buy them a drink and then get there own .... cant think why they would do that ... they could have said yes and that would be the last round as they wee going or stopping drinking for the night
 
I'd have asked them whey they didn't let you buy them a drink, just to see what the craic was.
 
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