The Attitude You HAVE to Ditch If You Want to Be Rich by Kimberly Lucht “I didn’t agree to pay for their meal, Allison. I’m not gonna do it,” I said. This might’ve been the most tense moment my best friend and I ever had. We’d been traveling for three months and our last stop was in Spain, where she offered to pay for dinner for our host and his brother. I freaked out.