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- From: krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith)
- Subject: Re: Picking up the Tab (was: Re: What is gold-digging?)
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:56:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.155614.14751@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec18.201836.12373@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Dec18.223708.26776@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <d2uo03boc5gW00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
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- In article <d2uo03boc5gW00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
- >krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith) writes:
- >
- >}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
- >
-
- James,
- It is a rather effective filter, as I have no desire to go out with
- somebody who thinks that she is "too good" to treat a man every
- once-in-a-while. Whether you belive it or not, there _are_ kinder,
- gentler, ways to _suggest_ that somebody treat you on the next-go-round.
- The way that you put it, it sounds like an ultimatum, and I don't
- operate like that.
-
- Keith R
-