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- From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
- Subject: Re: Picking up the Tab (was: Re: What is gold-digging?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.134352.7735@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:43:52 GMT
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- In article <102594@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.203306.13633@cs.ucla.edu> gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
- >
- >>However I won't say that this is cheesy and classless (because after
- >>all, what is chessy and classless is dependent on point of view
- >>regarding etiquette, etc.). I think as we move forward in time and
- >>turn our backs on antiquated notions about dating, women can (and
- >>should) expect to pay for themselves on a date.
- >
- >My, this is getting interesting.
- >
- >OK, here's a scenario. This happened about a month ago to a friend of
- >mine. Let's call her Jane. She hadn't dated anyone in a long time. A man
- >she didn't know well but who seemed nice asked her out to dinner and a
- >symphony orchestra concert. Let's call him Sam. She said yes. They'd
- >never been out together before.
- >
- >The big evening arrives. He asks her to drive to the restaurant and meet
- >him there (she lives quite far away). Fine. They meet at the restaurant,
- >and she discovers that another couple will be joining them. She knows the
- >man in the other couple pretty well (call him Joe), and they're friends, so
- >she's a bit surprised but thinks it's fine. They eat dinner. The check
- >comes. Joe pays for himself and his date. Sam, however, only pays his
- >half of the bill, leaving Jane to pay her half.
- >
- >They get to the concert. "By the way," says Sam, "the ticket is $40."
- >(Joe, meanwhile, has paid for his date.) So Jane pays that, too.
- >
- >POP QUIZ:
- >1) When Sam asked Jane out again a couple of weeks later, what do
- >you think her response was?
- >
- >2) Do you think Jane thought to herself:
- >
- > a. "That Sam, what a prince of a guy!"
- >
- > b. "Sure hope he asks me out again!"
- >
- > c. "I feel like a total scumwad and intend to join a convent.
- > But first I hope he gets incurable hives."
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
- >if only from time to time. -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Lauren Crawford // crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
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