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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: What can you do when your new neighbours stiff you on a restaurant bill?

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4 June 2016

9:00 AM

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

Q. We moved recently and new neighbours invited us to join them for dinner at a nearby restaurant. I planned to offer a contribution — perhaps to pay the cost of our meals — but no explicit arrangement was made beforehand. Our friends began by ordering champagne for themselves, while we confined ourselves to glasses of wine.

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