My attitude about "paying for friends" is similar to XOmichelle... I mean basically we pay to "do stuff" just like any other group of people does... you go bowling... you pitch in ... we have a lot of people..it requries insurance... hence we pitch in... we want a place to hang out.. ( a house) we all pitch in. EVERYONE does this in their daily life.... this co-worker just didn't get a bid back in college...