Lol thank you! I feel so dumb

get to wear little vests too

Are people (or some other creatures) wearing little vests that say unemployed? Or maybe this is a LinkedIn #opentowork thing? Please tell me people aren’t walking around wearing #opentowork vests IRL

Or maybe this is a panhandling sign thing?

Smart servers just put the check and the card between the people if it’s not obvious who’s paying. I’m a great test case for this because my spouse and I both happen to have first names that could belong to a man or a woman.
It’s pretty much random which one of us pays because we pool our money anyway.

Often they drop the bill in the little book and we stick the card in the end of it and put it back on the end of the table, they come by, run the card and then come back….

you can see the fear in their eyes sometimes, like “oh shit. This could be either one of them… 50/50 chance I annoy the one who’s writing the tip”.

We’ve both worked service industry so we don’t care at all and tip well either way but it’s pretty funny to see the realization sometimes.

Oh and, if it’s two people on a date (not a boring old married couple like us eating dinner) and there’s only one bill… 9/10 it’s the guy paying.

Nice that it worked out but deception and playing games would be a huge red flag for me. Nothing about that instance in particular, it’s just that I’d always wonder “is this situation for real or another trick?”

Maybe the immediate followup fixes it. You were strangers then after all. And after eight years of course you know what you’re working with haha

Damnit now I’m just rambling to myself, carry on!

I don’t personally understand the desire to do this beyond “it’s the principle damnit” or doing illegal stuff but if you really want your phone to not be tracked then just use a verified faraday bag. Or make one yourself if you’re poor and then validate it yourself.

That looks great! They're almost always buried completely under leaf litter around me, must be nice to find one without digging!

What elevation are you at? Seems crazy to find chanterelles in July

Counterpoint: fruit