Lessons from a $1,600 Tab: Money, Holidays, and Finding Joy

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My own nail. If I'm being real, she probably, the people that skedaddled probably was thinking the same thing that I was thinking in the beginning. That bitch ordered like 8 drinks. She ordered like 24 shots, no cap bro.
She was like, hey yeah, give her 2 shots, give me 2 shots, and give the birthday girl 2 shots. I was like, how many shots is this bitch ordering? She did that twice bro, hell nah. That's it. Welcome to God, you know, hosted by Justin white, while I'm basically talking to myself out loud, trying to figure out this thing we call real joy.
Well, I like to call God, I'm not an expert or a life coach. I'm just another person on the journey, sharing my ups and downs and random thoughts that might help us all find a little more inner peace. If you're cool with me working it out in real time, stick around, let's see what we can uncover together.
All right. So it finally happened. It finally happened, we see this shit all the time on social media when you go up there with a group of friends and they can't split the check and I'm gonna be real. It wasn't nothing that was like crazy. I expected it. And I kind of want from it too.
And I'll tell you about that a little bit too, but. , it happened. , when I would a group of friends, one of my homegirls, she proposed and it was nice. , dinner was cool., I'm not gonna mention the restaurant, but it wasn't all that to me. But I mean, for what it was, it was cool.
No, I probably wouldn't go there again. Yeah, man we went, we had a good time. And when that bill came, I had kind of been preparing myself and I was like, I remember leaving the house and even probably the day before I was like, man, you know, you see this shit all the time where they can't split the bill.
What the fuck am I going to do if they say they can't split the bill? Because , in those situations, typically you just want to pay for your own food. We get the fuck out of there. You know, you ain't trying to pay for everybody's shit. Now, I will say that although I paid my one 25 and I, I came up a little bit, I tell you how I did that in the end, but it was some motherfuckers in there ordering some drinks, bro.
It was some people in there ordering some fucking drinks, bro. Like I, I know one, one person in there was like at least six shots in, bro. And I still paid my little 125, but still, I think she should have paid her own little 250 by herself, but yeah, man, that shit happened, man. It was real. So I said at the end, but really what ended up happening is I went ahead and I just paid for the whole bill.
And, I had everybody cash at me. Now I wasn't balling and I wasn't saying, yeah, I paid for the whole bill. And I covered a 1, 600 bill on my own. No nigga cash at me, my money or Zell or Venmo, whatever you got, I got it. Whatever you got, I fucking got it. Okay. Shit. Just give me my fucking money. But how I came up was, I use my.
My credit card, they got five times point on restaurants. So just for that meal alone, I came up on 84, 8, 400 points, 8, 400 points. I came up on. So just to kind of put that in perspective, that is the equivalent of 85, something like that. , for all you guys in the credit card game, or at least trying to get into the credit card game, you can transfer those to, to different partners with whatever blank you would mind.
You're so happy to be with chase. Mine is a chase Sapphire, , chase Sapphire, , preferred and, , I can transfer that to, , numerous of hotels or, flights and that's my goal. My goal is to take a trip. And I wasn't trying to scheme or do anything. I told him, Hey, look, I pay for this shit.
I get five times points. So everybody cash out me the money and I pay for that shit. , it's kind of interesting because. Like I said, I had been thinking about it and I was like, what the fuck am I going to do? And the first time I was like, man, I don't wa