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Taxi Fare Conundrum.
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Two couples and one person on their own (because their other half doesn't want to join us) are sharing a taxi and it has to be a six seater because of the extra person. The total fare is £18, do we split it three ways, £6 per couple and £6 for the one person, ie three separate families. Or five ways for five people. Meaning each individual couple pays more to subsidise single person. If the single person was not there and we could use a normal car, the total fare would only be £12, £6 a couple.
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It's £3.60 each.
Nobody is "subsidising" the single person. If you make him pay £6 he would be "subsidising" the two couples as they should pay £7.20 for two.
"If the single person was not there..."
But he is. You are where you are, not where you'd like to be. You need a car for six and the five of you have to pay for it.
The alternative is to wish him a Happy Christmas but tell him he can't come because the four of you cannot afford an extra sixty pence each.
"Eating with people who count the separate cost of everything that everyone has ordered - and who had an extra glass of wine."
Whenever I eat out with anybody - no matter how big or small the party - I make it clear from the outsett that I will not be gettting involved in any of that nonsense. The bill will be divided by n, where n is the number of participants. Those wishing to do their own thing can ask the waiter to provide a separate bill for them.
The last thing I will be doing at the end of a nice meal out is going through an itemised bill and atttributing each item to one of the guests.
Why should the singleton pay more than each of the others? Is he to be punished because his partner does not want to go?
What a farce. Almost as bad as the "share out" in the film "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world". For those of you who haven't seen it, a group of people witness an old driver going off the road and plunging down a ravine. They scramble down to the wreck to see if they can help, but when they get there he is on his last legs. But before he goes, he manages to tell them about a buried treasure.
The rest of the film follows their exploits in trying to locate it. But not before they discuss how to share out the bounty:
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