When people are taking you out for your birthday or some such thing, do you try and pick a place that everybody will like or do you just go with whatever you want?

I’m all for giving the person their choice as much as possible, but when it’s a place that is not going to accommodate others, particularly the people who are also spending money there for their own food, then would you not be halfway considerate and maybe offer another option or two of where you would like to go?

We’re getting ready to take my sister out in about a week and she has her mind set on this one place that only she wants to go to.

When she took me out for my birthday a couple weeks ago, she even tried to push the idea on me of going to this place and I was not interested at all after looking at the menu. I picked the place, but I asked her if she would like it okay if we went there, and she said yes.

So of course she’s picking that place, and that’s fine. I did look at the menu, which is not really extensive, but I could not find anything I wanted to get except maybe a bowl of soup, which would give me little to no carbs. Since I have to have carbs with each meal, I will probably end up having to leave there and go home and eat something else or pick something up on the way home, which honestly, really sucks. And because I dared question about whether maybe she might pick another place, now “her feelings are all hurt.” Oh, I did see beef stroganoff, which sounded fairly good, but it was $30! And I just can’t fathom spending $30 on beef stroganoff. And not even because I can’t afford it, just because I can’t imagine any beef stroganoff worth $30.

Said sister has been a bully many times, so I really shouldn’t be surprised, I guess. But what would you do?