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Q: Fighting to pay the will - all an elaborate show? How to avoid being rude?
We do this even in the West, however here it seems (to me at least) like a very fake act everyone has to play. Sometimes it's even comical, as people almost fight to get the bill.
Is this a face thing? Is it proper etiquette? What I've done most of the time when I want to pay and avoid this little drama show is pretend to go to the bathroom and pay the bill. Is that actually considered rude, as I deprived them of their little end of meal drama?
In a way it is, and to me it is always funny. It was back home, and it is also here, but I do feel here is done in a greater way.
I just do not pay much attention to it. If I am the one doing the inviting, I know I will be paying, if I am invited, I do not even try to paricipate. Somehow it feels childish and in a way foolish to me. But it is their way, and I tolerate it.
I don't understand it, legally or culturally, but I guess everyone has their own way of grieving.
