Dropping the check...

Tonight ellie and I ventured out to one of barfalo's finest mexican restaurant's, cozumel. We dined with big country, and his girlfriend. Big Country is one of the poker guys, and we go back a few years, since shortly after he moved here from Wyoming, and started his clinical psychology graduate work. Past adventures with BigC have including getting called "a bunch of zipperheads" by a bartender at Molly's Pub (which sadly is now closed), the 200 wing night with Kieth Murphy?, and a few late night trips to Kronies, and the Jolly Jug. Anyways after a fine evening regaling over past flag football victories, poker takedowns, grants oppertunities, and watching beginning of the bills game, the check came. It was almost $70 and my buddy gave me 30, and said he would get my next buy in, which added to about half after tip, so that worked out fine, I put it on my card, and managed to do the math for tip and sign the receipt. I like when things are quick and easy, and dislike haggling over bills for an enormous amount of time. Sort of like when I was living with sully for 4 years, and he paid the electric, and I paid the gas, and we never worried about settling up at the end. Anyways as we left the mexican place the waitress came running out of the bar. Evidently I put the signed receipt with tip in my pocket instead of in the bill folder. I really hate when I do stupid stuff like that. My buddy's response was "If you told me we were going to dine n ditch, I would have walked faster!"

How embarrassing, what would miss manners say?