Legit payoff of a bet or a copout?

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thavoice

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Feb 13, 2014 11:07 AM
Friend owed me an all you can eat wings at the local pub from a bet from abotu 4-5 years ago.
This morning he hands me a coupon that he got out of some advertisement for a free AYCE order at this place.

Technically it is paying off the bet...but is it copout?

(he also owes me two bricks of .223 LR but they are hard to find).
Feb 13, 2014 11:07am
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ernest_t_bass

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Feb 13, 2014 11:13 AM
It's a copout. HE needs to be the one buying, and you should still keep the coupon!
Feb 13, 2014 11:13am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:14 AM
It's a cop-out but I'd forgive the debt.
Feb 13, 2014 11:14am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:19 AM
Time to find a new friend.
Feb 13, 2014 11:19am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:24 AM
Was the coupon available to you before he gave it to you?

That might play a role. You are getting a meal you wouldnt have otherwise been able to get, regardless of if he is paying or not. Doesnt sound like the bet specified he himself had to pay. If the coupon was available to you as well (newspaper or something)...then thats bullshit lol
Feb 13, 2014 11:24am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:24 AM
Either way...its cheap as fuck and he sounds like a friend I dont want to have lol
Feb 13, 2014 11:24am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:32 AM
Fuck his wife and sue him in small claims court.
Feb 13, 2014 11:32am
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ernest_t_bass

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Feb 13, 2014 11:35 AM
Are you friends with CCRunner?
Feb 13, 2014 11:35am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:35 AM
4-5 years ago? Who holds out on a ~$10 bet for half a decade?
Feb 13, 2014 11:35am
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thavoice

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Feb 13, 2014 11:41 AM
SportsAndLady;1580261 wrote:4-5 years ago? Who holds out on a ~$10 bet for half a decade?
To be honest with I totally had forgotten about it because I was stuck at Ft Bragg for a couple of months after it happened.. It was a bet on the reds getting 90 wins or more back in 2010.

YEs. the coupon is available to me...or anyone.
Feb 13, 2014 11:41am
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thavoice

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Feb 13, 2014 11:41 AM
SportsAndLady;1580261 wrote:4-5 years ago? Who holds out on a ~$10 bet for half a decade?
Someone who is half the man that ccrunner is...
Feb 13, 2014 11:41am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:42 AM
thavoice;1580264 wrote:Someone who is half the man that ccrunner is...
So he's only 1/8 a man?
Feb 13, 2014 11:42am
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Feb 13, 2014 11:50 AM
SportsAndLady;1580261 wrote:4-5 years ago? Who holds out on a ~$10 bet for half a decade?
thavoice;1580264 wrote:Someone who is half the man that ccrunner is...
lol, beat me to it :cool:
Feb 13, 2014 11:50am
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Feb 13, 2014 12:12 PM
SportsAndLady;1580261 wrote:4-5 years ago? Who holds out on a ~$10 bet for half a decade?
The same sort of person who holds out on a $20 bet and ignores every attempt to show him the error of his ways.

In other words, the sort of person who could disappear off the face of the earth and no one would care. At all.
Feb 13, 2014 12:12pm
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thavoice

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Feb 13, 2014 2:13 PM
Now this is funny....just saw on FB the owner of the pub that I am to get these wings from is telling everyone to check their mail as they all should be delivered as of today.
WOnder if the whole town is getting it!
Feb 13, 2014 2:13pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Feb 13, 2014 2:56 PM
Seriously, just make him buy you the wings with his own $$$.
Feb 13, 2014 2:56pm
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Feb 13, 2014 3:32 PM
Or at the very least, let him know he's a class A bitch for (a) waiting 4-5 years to pay off a tiny bet and (b) then doing so via free coupon, as opposed to actually, you know, paying off his losses.

Kind of person I'd do a second bet against that I knew I'd probably lose and if it happened, just be like, "Well, when I find a free coupon for whatever you won, you'll get your winnings, like I did. Now fuck you."
Feb 13, 2014 3:32pm
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Feb 13, 2014 3:39 PM
No question it's a copout.
But I suppose I'd still be nice and 'let him off the hook.'
Feb 13, 2014 3:39pm
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Feb 13, 2014 3:49 PM
I think it's a copout.

But then again, let's say he had brought you with him and then put everything on one check and used the coupon...would you still think it's a copout? I don't know if I would in that case.

I'd definitely give him shit about it. But I'd take the coupon and call it even.
Feb 13, 2014 3:49pm
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gut

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Feb 13, 2014 6:05 PM
The bet was for a free meal. You got a free meal. Debt paid.
Feb 13, 2014 6:05pm
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Feb 13, 2014 6:11 PM
gut;1580406 wrote:The bet was for a free meal. You got a free meal. Debt paid.
If I lost a bet to you and I owed you $20, and we were walking to the ATM so I can pay you...and along the way, we both spotted a $20 bill sitting on the ground, and I picked it up and gave it to you and said "debt paid" would you be satisfied?
Feb 13, 2014 6:11pm
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gut

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Feb 13, 2014 6:17 PM
SportsAndLady;1580409 wrote:If I lost a bet to you and I owed you $20, and we were walking to the ATM so I can pay you...and along the way, we both spotted a $20 bill sitting on the ground, and I picked it up and gave it to you and said "debt paid" would you be satisfied?
Yep. Any way you look at it, you now have $20 less and I have $20 more. How you got the $20 is completely irrelevant to payment of the debt.
Feb 13, 2014 6:17pm
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Feb 13, 2014 6:24 PM
SportsAndLady;1580409 wrote:If I lost a bet to you and I owed you $20, and we were walking to the ATM so I can pay you...and along the way, we both spotted a $20 bill sitting on the ground, and I picked it up and gave it to you and said "debt paid" would you be satisfied?
If we both spotted the $20, I'd push you out of the way, grab the $20 and proceed onto the ATM where I'd shortly have $40.
Feb 13, 2014 6:24pm
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Feb 13, 2014 6:33 PM
gut;1580414 wrote:Yep. Any way you look at it, you now have $20 less and I have $20 more. How you got the $20 is completely irrelevant to payment of the debt.
How do I have $20 less?
Feb 13, 2014 6:33pm
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Feb 13, 2014 6:35 PM
SportsAndLady;1580419 wrote:How do I have $20 less?
You picked it up. +$20.
You gave it away. -$20.

You technically have $20 less than you would if you didn't owe on the bet.

But I disagree with gut's original post. The coupon doesn't cut it.
Feb 13, 2014 6:35pm