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Tully Mars · 04-24-2009, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by yournamehere

Another thing to look out for - make sure that they they don't think of themselves as "one couple," instead of "two people." Seriously, I almost shared a place with one couple who said that since they shared one room, they should only pay half the rent. I was like, 'Dude - if you want her to sleep in my room half the time, then okay; otherwise, you pay two thirds."

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in this situation in the last year or so. Being near Cancun a lot people around here get condo and house deals by the week and month. I went one time with two other couples. I got an air mattress in the living room while both couples got a bedroom with a bath. I literally had to go down to the lobby to use the can. Didn't really bother me until we went to check out and they wanted to split everything in thirds. Not only did they think I was going to split the week 3 ways they also spent a ton of time at the swim up bar. I spent the whole week diving and the only thing I drank I bought at the local Costco. The four people had a bar tab of nearly $700. Yeah my portion should have been nada and they thought I was going to pony up $235. They thought wrong.

Another time I went with a couple and I agreed to paid half since I was getting a bedroom. It's not they're fault I'm not a couple. They said they wanted to cook in the room to save money. Fine my me. The week went fine and I rarely saw them as they don't dive. But when we checked out the bar tab came to just under $35 for the week. We had drinks and nachos at the bar she split the drinks tab up according to who had what to drink then started working on who had the most of the $10 nacho plate. Turns out after three beers I can eat $6.85 of a $10 plate of nachos. I wasn't sure what she was doing at first but she got out a calculator and started punching in numbers. I really thought she saw a mistake. If I'd known she was going to spend 20 mins. on this I'd have just paid the $35 myself so we could go home.