Easy, send him a tikkie of 50 cents per kilometer you drove him.
Send him 50euros with the note: Thanks for the time I had with your wife, she was really good!
I don’t get why this is such a thing though, I’ve noticed many Flemish are like that as well. Of course it depends on the friendship group but in many groups it’s like this as well that every small cost is ‘counted’. For me it’s like this: if I know the person I’m hanging out with is a student or is not financially very stable during circumstances, I don’t mind buying you a coffee or a meal as I will not really ‘miss’ the 15 euros and I am just happy to spend time with you, regardless of the money situation. If the person is working and fully capable, it’s turn by turn or something, like you pay this, I pay the next and then it doesn’t really matter the exact numbers, it’s more the idea.
I feel it’s very tedious having to calculate every small cost, especially if you hang out for a day/afternoon and do several things? Paying seperately takes long so it’s easier to just pay together and then pay turn by turn but apparently everybody has different feelings about this 😀
I’ve worked in Maastricht in a place with extremely high turnover, high up and down mobility.
When a colleague with serious experience asked about the possibility of a promotion, he was told, in English:
“if you’re not Dutch, you’re not that much”
Sounds like anon got trolled.
Sorry what is a “tikkie”?
Fake. A real Dutch guy would charge at least 2.50€ for coffee.
I was on the road once with a dutch co driver and we stopped for gas at a gas station in the middle of Nowhere, Germany. And we walk in and the guy behind the counter holds up a pot of drip coffee and says, “free coffee for truck drivers”. And the dutch guy just goes, “then I’ll take a cappucino”
This german guy is obviously annoyed and says “then I have to start up the cappucino machine” and the dutch huy just says, “I’ll wait.”
I was so embarassed in his stead…
The wife must have accidentally given you the good coffee instead of the cheap stuff.
I have to pay for coffee at my job and when I visit the offices of my Dutch NS colleagues, the coffee is free.
Make of that what you will.
How did copper wire get invented?
>!2 dutch guys were fighting over a piece of 20cent!<
I had a Belgian roommate who gave me €5 coz I offered him dinner. Not only did I feel insulted but I just laughed it away. Somehow he was serious about it. 😅
And fast forward 2 months, we had to get our deposit back from our landlord after we moved out. My landlord sent the deposit to me. I sent my roommate his share minus €2. I genuinely forgot that it was 2 more coz I just rounded off the amount and sent to him. And I was in class when this happened so I wasn’t paying attention.
5 mins later, I get a text: “Hey, I’d normally not bother but you forgot to give me €2 for the deposit and as I’m saving for a house, it’s important for me”.
Later on when I reached home, I sent him €52. €2 coz I forgot and €50 from my current roommate who saw the text and fell off the chair laughing. And she insisted I send him 50 from her side for his “house saving” 😛
Sounds like he’s going Dutch
Oh so tikkie now also works in Belgium? Well better late than never… Like everything in belgium.
hi hi hi
Do they really say “tikkie”?
As a Dutch person who has lived in Belgium all my life and has many Belgian friends, the blatant hate and racism towards the Dutch in this thread (which started as a funny stereotype joke post) is insane.
A Walloon, a Flemming and Dutch guy walk into a bar and order beers. Each beer has a fruit fly. The Walloon picks it out and drinks, the Flemish guy asks for a fresh beer. The Dutch guy grabs the fly by the wing and says “Spit it out, you little bastard!”
Dutch expressions are so cringe
It’s a green text on 4chan so it must be true.
Dutch are a lot more friendly so i seriously doubt they will ask money if they offer it themselves.
However they do some shit when one pays for two cans of soda in the super market.
Sorry. What is a “tikkie?”
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Sounds like a consultant
…
release the hounds.
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Man, these Dutch Bros are always overcharging for coffee
TIL the Dutch are cheap, thanks Reddit I guess?
We have a saying in belgium. If a dutch person didn’t rip you of. He forgot it.
wow why…..
When I arrived to Belgium, that’s exactly how we were treated on my gf(francophone) circuit. And btw we never ever arrived empty handed, always charged.
Its not difficult to understand the culture, and under their rules you can arrive and are expected to arrive with no me than a baggete or cheap wine. So their place their rules.
In my culture visits are expected to come as they are, and never be charged.
What I haven’t seen in this post, is that the “gratuitous” don’t-bring-anything system fails in the long term when you are the host most of the time and host often.
Last words: let’s talk about the Irish system that so many people fail to understand.
This explains why AH stores here are always filled with Dutch employees, I always wondered why they imported those instead of just using the local Belgian workforce 😛
Glad to see “Dutch people are cheap” jokes are still around.
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Easy, send him a tikkie of 50 cents per kilometer you drove him.
Send him 50euros with the note: Thanks for the time I had with your wife, she was really good!
I don’t get why this is such a thing though, I’ve noticed many Flemish are like that as well. Of course it depends on the friendship group but in many groups it’s like this as well that every small cost is ‘counted’. For me it’s like this: if I know the person I’m hanging out with is a student or is not financially very stable during circumstances, I don’t mind buying you a coffee or a meal as I will not really ‘miss’ the 15 euros and I am just happy to spend time with you, regardless of the money situation. If the person is working and fully capable, it’s turn by turn or something, like you pay this, I pay the next and then it doesn’t really matter the exact numbers, it’s more the idea.
I feel it’s very tedious having to calculate every small cost, especially if you hang out for a day/afternoon and do several things? Paying seperately takes long so it’s easier to just pay together and then pay turn by turn but apparently everybody has different feelings about this 😀
I’ve worked in Maastricht in a place with extremely high turnover, high up and down mobility.
When a colleague with serious experience asked about the possibility of a promotion, he was told, in English:
“if you’re not Dutch, you’re not that much”
Sounds like anon got trolled.
Sorry what is a “tikkie”?
Fake. A real Dutch guy would charge at least 2.50€ for coffee.
I was on the road once with a dutch co driver and we stopped for gas at a gas station in the middle of Nowhere, Germany. And we walk in and the guy behind the counter holds up a pot of drip coffee and says, “free coffee for truck drivers”. And the dutch guy just goes, “then I’ll take a cappucino”
This german guy is obviously annoyed and says “then I have to start up the cappucino machine” and the dutch huy just says, “I’ll wait.”
I was so embarassed in his stead…
The wife must have accidentally given you the good coffee instead of the cheap stuff.
I have to pay for coffee at my job and when I visit the offices of my Dutch NS colleagues, the coffee is free.
Make of that what you will.
How did copper wire get invented?
>!2 dutch guys were fighting over a piece of 20cent!<
I had a Belgian roommate who gave me €5 coz I offered him dinner. Not only did I feel insulted but I just laughed it away. Somehow he was serious about it. 😅
And fast forward 2 months, we had to get our deposit back from our landlord after we moved out. My landlord sent the deposit to me. I sent my roommate his share minus €2. I genuinely forgot that it was 2 more coz I just rounded off the amount and sent to him. And I was in class when this happened so I wasn’t paying attention.
5 mins later, I get a text: “Hey, I’d normally not bother but you forgot to give me €2 for the deposit and as I’m saving for a house, it’s important for me”.
Later on when I reached home, I sent him €52. €2 coz I forgot and €50 from my current roommate who saw the text and fell off the chair laughing. And she insisted I send him 50 from her side for his “house saving” 😛
Sounds like he’s going Dutch
Oh so tikkie now also works in Belgium? Well better late than never… Like everything in belgium.
hi hi hi
Do they really say “tikkie”?
As a Dutch person who has lived in Belgium all my life and has many Belgian friends, the blatant hate and racism towards the Dutch in this thread (which started as a funny stereotype joke post) is insane.
A Walloon, a Flemming and Dutch guy walk into a bar and order beers. Each beer has a fruit fly. The Walloon picks it out and drinks, the Flemish guy asks for a fresh beer. The Dutch guy grabs the fly by the wing and says “Spit it out, you little bastard!”
Dutch expressions are so cringe
It’s a green text on 4chan so it must be true.
Dutch are a lot more friendly so i seriously doubt they will ask money if they offer it themselves.
However they do some shit when one pays for two cans of soda in the super market.
Sorry. What is a “tikkie?”
[removed]
Sounds like a consultant
…
release the hounds.
[deleted]
Man, these Dutch Bros are always overcharging for coffee
TIL the Dutch are cheap, thanks Reddit I guess?
We have a saying in belgium. If a dutch person didn’t rip you of. He forgot it.
wow why…..
When I arrived to Belgium, that’s exactly how we were treated on my gf(francophone) circuit. And btw we never ever arrived empty handed, always charged.
Its not difficult to understand the culture, and under their rules you can arrive and are expected to arrive with no me than a baggete or cheap wine. So their place their rules.
In my culture visits are expected to come as they are, and never be charged.
What I haven’t seen in this post, is that the “gratuitous” don’t-bring-anything system fails in the long term when you are the host most of the time and host often.
Last words: let’s talk about the Irish system that so many people fail to understand.
This explains why AH stores here are always filled with Dutch employees, I always wondered why they imported those instead of just using the local Belgian workforce 😛
Glad to see “Dutch people are cheap” jokes are still around.
Must be some gourmet coffee
Tikkie works in Belgium now?
As usual anon is a bundle of sticks.
I’m mad, and disappointed