What To Do When Your Cheap Mate Is Taking Advantage Of Rounds

Asking “it’s your round isn’t it mate?” is such a typical blokey question to ask while at the pub or the club or the boozer or whatever dopey place blokey blokes go to hide from non-blokes. If that opening sentence didn’t make it clear, I have some complicated feelings about ‘rounds’.

Taking turns paying for everyone’s drinks? Sounds like the quickest way to ruin a friendship after play a draw four wild card in Uno. So much can go wrong and it does, those same blokes that insist on rounds always have a funny yarn about a mate who sneaks out before it’s his round or that gullible one that you can always trick into thinking it’s his round. It makes beer drinking more complicated and it’s dumb.

However, this tradition still insists and I myself have been caught in a situation where whenever it was my shout a fella I was doing rounds with was asking for a beer that was more expensive than the beers he would buy when it was his round (which he never asked if I had a preference). Other people have this problem too which is why I came up with a solution for Crafty Pint in my series Dr Benny’s Crafty Fixes.

Visit The Crafty Pint to learn how to deal with this absolute deadweight of a mate. Spoiler: it involves another type of drink payment system that I don’t like but will do the trick in this instance.