• Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        6 months ago

        Sure, here’s 50 cents for the coffee.

        Now here’s the bill for the ride, the seat cleaning where you sat, the new air freshener since that’s obviously been used now, my consulting fee, conversation fee, silence fee, and an additional 47.30 for various small consumables like oil, coolant, washer fluid…

        Adds up to 1.846,97EUR for the day. You can send that whenever.

        Oh right, almost forgot the €200 calculation fee.

        Also it’s a 30% interest rate per day for late fees

      • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        6 months ago

        It may have even been a prompt to send one for the gas. That seems a bit indirect for Dutch, but Dutch directness sometimes seems to take surprising forms.

        • zout@fedia.io
          1·
          6 months ago

          Am Dutch, I would offer to pay for gas while in the car. I would also not ask money for a coffee, even more when it was offered because I would have been late. Which wouldn’t have happened.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    I’d pay the 0.50 euro as soon a possible without a word.

    Then never offer to drive to do anything with them again.

    I’ve found that people who do this are either doing it as a joke and will let you know right away … or they are dead serious and it’s the kind of person you really want to avoid in every kind of way.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Eh. Yeah, but at least you know where you stand with them, and everything will be strictly business. If there’s some business-like value to keeping the relationship, then just treat it like a business relationship, and see how it goes. I wouldn’t bail on someone like this for that alone, but I wouldn’t hang out with them as friends either.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      0·
      6 months ago

      Or maybe it’s just cultural differences with a pinch of autism. TBH I’m not quite clear on how “Dutch” the guy in OP’s story is or where this even takes place, but AFAIK this would be completely normal behavior among friends and acquaintances in the Netherlands.