Oh, this is one of my favorites. Not only is it annoying, but it is a passive aggressive way for these blood sucking tight f!@#s to get something for free in the guise of they forgot their wallet when they left the house. They always know someone will step forward and pay for their way and say “pay me later.” To translate, this means you will never see that f~!@ing money again.

This scenario gets better when, down the line, you finally get up the stones to call in the IOU. It is amazing how their forgetful minds somehow become MIT educated steel traps, even making Stephen Hawking jealous. Let me put this scenario in screen play form.

You: Hey, can you buy my value meal today and we’ll call it even for the Prime Rib dinner I bought last week when you didn’t have any cash or credit?

Tight relative or friend: (Here is where they dig up savant type memory) What? What? (Excitedly) Remember when I took care of your kid for two hours when you had that cancerous polyp biopsied? Do you remember when I fed (insert kids name here) a hot dog six months ago when they wouldn’t stop crying because they were hungry and you couldn’t go to the store because you had a 103 degree fever? Well, I certainly think the prime rib dinner was payback for this so I have no idea what you are talking about.
……………and scene.