send the tikkie back for the gas.
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Hmm, you spoke to me on the ride? Here's my consulting fee for the length of it.
Sure, here's 50 cents for the coffee.
Now here's the bill for the ride, the seat cleaning where you sat, the new air freshener since that's obviously been used now, my consulting fee, conversation fee, silence fee, and an additional 47.30 for various small consumables like oil, coolant, washer fluid...
Adds up to 1.846,97EUR for the day. You can send that whenever.
Oh right, almost forgot the €200 calculation fee.
Also it's a 30% interest rate per day for late fees
https://dutchreview.com/expat/tikkie-netherlands/
Tikkie is an online payment app that allows you to forward payment requests to people via WhatsApp or pay through a QR code.
I hope that, if this isn't fake and gay, it was just for the lulz.
Either that or dude expected to receive one himself for the gas.
It may have even been a prompt to send one for the gas. That seems a bit indirect for Dutch, but Dutch directness sometimes seems to take surprising forms.
Am Dutch, I would offer to pay for gas while in the car. I would also not ask money for a coffee, even more when it was offered because I would have been late. Which wouldn't have happened.
This comment is peak Dutch
OK so I understand the Dutch have a reputation, but if you are making your ride wait on you because you aren't ready at the appointed time - nevermind the fact that your ride isn't charging you for gas (one hopes, since OP is going anyway and offered to pick him up, to do so would be just as rude as the coffee) - it would just be too unbelievably outrageous to bill them half a Euro. I have to conclude that this is ragebait.
It is funny though (especially for me as a Dutchman)
You made me laugh, that cost me a couple of calories. I'm sending you a tikkie for 5 cents.
Hes probably sitting there waiting for it to come through
Bill him an equal amount for the ride.
I simply presumed the whole thing exchange was a joke.
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For all who don't know, Tikkie is/was the Dutch equivalent of Venmo/PayPal.
Also this is one of the few rare real green texts. The correct reply in this case is just to send them an overinflated tikkie back. For example 5 euro for the ride since hey, your car depreciates during the ride! Seriously... 50 cents for a cup of coffee, even in this economy.
I'm sending a tikkie for 30 euros for making me look at your wife, it wasn't pleasant.
If it is true, which I doubt, I think the fact OP is Belgian should account for it being a joke. Belgians are the butt of the joke in that region the same way 'Irish logic' is a joke in the UK.
It's the other way around. The Dutch are the joke in Belgium because of them always being cheap.
I believe it must go both ways then. The Dutch very much make fun of the Belgians.
It obviously goes both ways.
Belgians are stupid. Dutch are cheapskates.
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‘ Irish logic’ is a joke in the UK.
I'm Irish and never heard of that
you must have been too drunk /s
Same, I am used to being the punch line in various jokes but I've never heard it referred to as "Irish Logic".
'Irish logic' is where things are backwards, in a specific way. It's kind of a single mindedness. Usually it's a misunderstanding-based joke, not exactly stupidity, but a silly perspective. E.g. it takes more Irishmen to change a light bulb because one holds it and the others swing the ceiling round.
I'm first generation Irish immigrant, and my family loves these kinds of jokes, we don't see it as hateful. But I wouldn't tell them around any old Irish person.
1 to hold the bulb, 2 to turn the ladder
I find this amazing. My school was full of jokes like: What's the latest Irish invention? An inflatable dart board.
Guessing this is a Belgium (Flemish) vs. Netherland joke.
Like Norway jokes about Swedes, and every other random neighboring countries you care to mention
Except Italians, who only joke about themselves
Dutch relatives. He was serious. My grandpa used to damage soup cans in the grocery store, then demand a discount on them.
Am Dutch, this is too relatable. Fucking hilarious
Send one back. Check what a taxi would cost, plus a 10% convenience fee.
Honestly that's probably what the Dutch guy is expecting.
(No sarcasm)
Ive never met a Dutch person or been to the Netherlands nor do I consume any Dutch media. But this seems like something they would do. It seems the Dutch are extremely fair.
Like the Dutch man might be worried that if he doesnt charge his coworker something then his coworker will worry about paying him back in some way. So he gives him an easy out and bills him 50c.
The coworker actually scammed the Dutch guy because he didnt bill him for the car ride and now the Dutch man owes him something.
Sounds backwards considering it could have just been coffee for ride if there NEEDS to be a transaction. Not everything needs to be an even trade
Transactionalism is more proof that humanity has reached the point past where it is actually desirable.
What kind of civilization could such people build? Where they can't do anything for another person, without giving them some ticket ti charge them?
I have done things for people knowing full well it is a gift, and that I have no right to ask for anything back.
This species disgusts me with it's illusionary, fake righteousness.
Am dutch. Thats not how we work.
The coffee is hospitality so you'd never ask for money.
The car ride would be free if it's a one time thing or a shorter trip. If you're traveling a larger distance you'd chip in for gas.
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If it's true it's an exemption. Maybe some stupid stereotype. Definitely NOT typical for the Dutch. (I am non Dutch and live in the Netherlands).
Sounds fake. Caricature.
Maybe this is just a weird Dutch way to offer to pay for gas?
No it's not.
But what if it were
It's not. The Dutch are too direct for that.
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