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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Picking up the Tab (was: Re: What is gold-digging?)
- Message-ID: <d2uo03boc5gW00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:16:35 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.203306.13633@cs.ucla.edu> <102594@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Dec18.201836.12373@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Dec18.223708.26776@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
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- krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith) writes:
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- }In actual practice, when I invite a woman out, I am _prepared_ to foot
- }the tab, but hoping that the woman will be nice enough to kick-in
- }a portion of the funds (at least, the first time, anyway).
- }Someting on the order of, "I'll spring for the dinner, and you can
- }spring for the show". If she does _not_ "step forward", then at the
- }end of the date, when we are both telling each other how nice a time
- }we had, then if she does not come out and offer to treat me the next
- }time, I will suggest it.
- }If she looks at me like I'm crazy, it's "hasta la vista, baby".
-
- You must get in a lot of practice on that line. You're saying that at
- the end of the first date, you will actually say to the woman something
- like, "I had a wonderful time. I'd like to see you again, but only if
- the next time it's your treat"? Ok, that's probably unfair, I'm sure
- you're more diplomatic, so it would be more like, "I had a wonderful
- time. Would you like to go out again sometime, but as your treat?"
-
- Still, however diplomatically you may put it, I have to say that actually
- suggesting that your date treat you the next time is one of the most crass
- things I've ever heard of. But then, I suppose that given how vitally
- important this "issue" is to you, how your date reacts serves as an
- effective filter for you.
-
- --James Preston
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-