Australians are fed up with their mates escaping the protocol when buying a round of drinks

MORE than half of Aussie drinkers are fed up with drawing the short straw when their stingy mates fail to cough up at the bar and shout a round.

AUSTRALIAN drinkers are fed up with drawing the short straw when their stingy mates fail to cough up at the bar.

Many drinkers are being left with a sour taste in their mouth and are calling out their mates for being cheapskates when they dodge buying a shout of drinks back at the pub.

New findings from lender ME’s “Whose Shout” survey, has revealed more than half of Aussies think shouts are unfair and it often results in them splashing more cash than they otherwise planned.

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Many Aussie drinks are fed up with going in shouts because there’s always a scrooge in the group.

The survey, which quizzed 1000 Australians, revealed 51 per cent of people don’t get a drink bought back for them in a shout and 55 per cent believe shouting results in them buying more expensive drinks for their buddies.

Rising Tide Financial Services’ managing director Chris Browne said it’s “totally un-Australian” if you’re bought a beer and don’t return the favour.

Rising Tide Financial Services’ managing director Chris Browne said shouts can be troublesome.

“I set my expectations low in shouts because we all know that the odd tight-arse exists,’’ he said.

“But if they do somehow participate in your shout and live up to your low expectation, make it known in a fun way what they’re up to because the sheer embarrassment of being called out normally means they pull up their socks.”

Some drinkers don’t want to go in a shout with their mates but they fear looking tight with money.

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The findings revealed only one in four people feel comfortable with opting out of a shout and feel pressured if they don’t partake — 39 per cent don’t want to look tight with their cash.

The Good Manners Company’s director, Anna Musson, said it’s “poor form to be seen as cheap.”

“It’s much better form to seem generous, skipping out on a shout is right up their with splitting a bill and then saying, “oh but I only had a salad’,’’ she said.

“Yes we need to save money but it’s not good form and good manners to be dodging out of a shout.”

Tribeca Financial’s chief executive officer Ryan Watson said going in a shout of beers with your mates “is definitely still alive and well.”

“The one problem with shouting is that there is always at least one tight-arse in a group who will avoid their shout at any costs, for example by saying, ‘I’ve just got to take this phone call’, or ‘I just need to duck off to the toilet’,’’ he said.

“One rule I have, everyone has to drink the same type of drink in order to be a part of a shout, no exceptions.”

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