Your company does not allow project managers to accept gifts from vendors of any kind. A friend that you have known for years now works for a vendor that your company may be doing business with. Your friend from the vendor asks you to lunch to discuss an upcoming project and you accept. When the check arrives at the lunch table, your friend insists on paying. You should:

Select one:

a$.$

Allow the friend to buy because you've been friends for years.

b$.$

Don't allow the friend to buy because your company does not allow any gifts from vendors.

c$.$

Allow the friend to buy because lunch isn't really a gift.

d$.$

Insist that you purchase your friend's lunch and your friend buys yours.