[surrealvortex]

As a vegetarian teetotaler, I end up partially subsidizing most other people's meals.

We do split checks evenly though (one of us pays), and use Splitwise to register that. It's just better all around to have this kind of accountability. Over the last couple of years, I ended up being owed mid 4 figures on Splitwise (from all my friends combined) even though none of us makes an extra effort to avoid paying checks. This may be a weird outlier, but this goes to show that the small charges add up, and it doesn't always cancel out.