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htarw
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Joined: 6/29/2007
Msg: 354 | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 11/11/2007 7:27:57 PM | [I used to get the "Entertainment" books for my area every year, used them a lot w/ my GF at the time, they had 100's of coupons for various restaurants in the area (up to abt 45 mins drive), so we'd look them over and pick a different restaurant to try out. Definitely kept it from being monotonous and rotating around the dozen or so decent restaurants in town... expecially in the summer, a nice evening road trip to some restaurant we've never been to. Hey, some were good, a few were "eh", but it mixed things up. ]
I must admit i am cheap...I like using the coupon book. If my date said it upfront no problem...if you use it w/o my knowledge....."Houston We Have A Problem" | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 11/11/2007 10:33:58 PM | Well, at least she weeded out this guy before having to wash the dishes...
I once had a blind date with a guy that did not go well. When the check came, I asked him if he would like for me to pay half. He responded that it "didn't matter." Not being able to read him well and still hoping to part on a pleasant note, I asked him again. His come back was, "It doesn't matter. I am going to expense it anyway." So, essentially if I had paid half, I would have PAID HIM for having dinner with me! I said a cold "goodbye" and walked away... | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 11/11/2007 11:41:36 PM | This is so funny, almost not to be believed And some men wonder why they are alone in life! He should have been a gentleman and told his date if he was going to use his coupon sometime before the check arrived. I would be too embrassed to ever do this on a first date. Or a second, or a third. I'm still laughing over this whole thing. I wonder if there was a second date for this couple?
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 11/12/2007 12:05:02 AM | LMAO!!!
ok.. coupons are ok.. but cmon... asking someone on a date, so they can pay cash, so you get your free meal??? LMAO!!!!.
(oh.. and.. i dont have time to read the entire thread.. although theres a lot of good humor.. but i must comment on what someone said on page 2... she said.. he was the smart one, and she wasnt, since she didnt have a coupon.
lol.. ok.. lets assume she's as "smart" as he is, and they both have a 2 for 1 coupon... but.. the deal is.. one meal has to be paid for.. you cant both use a coupon. lol.
back on topic though.. guns dont kill people.. people kill people.. and... its not using a coupon thats bad.. its how you use it.. and im pretty sure we all agree.. he used it WRONG. lol. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 12:57:05 AM | Hi well i have read you situation.
My question was he Scottish? no sorry to all the scotts out their, well for me personaly its a no no i would of got up and walked out after shouting "cheap skate"....
Has she spoken to him since and exsplane how she felt and how that is just not the think to do went going out on a date....its something you discuss if after a while and maybe theam parks, train fairs to have the date its self but thats after you have made a connection and got in that comfy zone...
As for me first couple of dates if meals involved 50/50....see where do we draw the line on what is the norm...my dad always says its the man's responsability to pay but then that advice was over 25 years ago and now i just get the LOOK from my date if i insist to pay thats saying " i am inderpendant and i can pay my own way"
So where do we draw the line? if i took you away for a romatic weekend at the end would you say well let me pay for my half?
O happy day's who said dating was easy!!!!!
Take care all.....Chris | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 5:49:26 AM | frugal folks make millionaires. being a Ms Cheap fan and sort of a Dave Ramsey fan (okay, the guy is obnoxious
at times, but think he means well) I would be thoroughly turned on by his show of smart coupon-ess and not
offended by that in the least. But, taking her up on her offer to pay... don't do it guys. That's a test. (believe
me, I have used it and it was the last date the guy ever got. I figure guys get off cheap in life as it is... as they
never have to purchase "fem hygiene" products, sorry to be so blunt... and T.P. is almost always free in public places.)
If you are really down and out, tell the gal up front and do a picnic or let her know you are economizing by eating
at home for a bit, or break out your sandwich bags with PB&J. Or hold off on dating until you are back in black.
I use coupons too, pick up art from goodwill, brick a brack from yard sales, visit time shares for disney tickets...
it's the smart thing to do. Don't worry your match is out there... who shares your money smarts. And then you
can later splurge on that big swank hotel weekend with brunch carriage ride and concert or play, diamond gift when you
are sitting pretty! (and where will "miss-ante-coupon" be then??) | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 6:03:46 AM | This is totally boorish behaviour. If he can be that cheap on a first date, imagine how he would be to live with.
Etiquette dictates that if he asked you out, he should have automatically insisted on paying. Even if he were paying the whole shot, using a coupon on a first date is tacky. Fine if you have been dating for awhile, but NEVER on a first date. I had an experience recently where the man suggested we go for supper rather than coffee, and then hesitated when the bill was presented. That hesitation prompted me to politely offer to pay half. When he readily agreed, I thought to myself, "Man....you just blew it." | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 7:18:42 AM | Foks, I"m curious. This post is over a year and a half old and the original poster is long gone, as are all but one of the first five who replied. How or why do old posts like this resurface? Prior to gossa it had been ten months since anyone posted to it, and since they're listed by activity, doesn't that mean it was way down on the list?
I'm not dissing anyone. I've just noticed that sometimes old threads stay alive continuously but every once in a while one like this mysteriously pops up after no activity for long periods, and I was just wondering why...
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 7:45:54 AM | If you are eating at a restaurant and it's your first date, then that is really off-putting. I would be thinking what a cheapskate the guy is and wondering how to run away very, very quickly.
If you had organised your first date in a park it may have been a little easier. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 9:19:22 AM | | That would of been the last date. I had a date and this guy pulled over and got a folder out of his back seat. He said these are the places u can choose from. There was steak and shake and denny's and a new small mexican place. I wanted it to seem like dinner not lunch or after the bars close. I said the mexican place. We ordered and I didn't like it that well. He finished his and said are u taking your 1/2 of the burrito with u and I said no. He said I will eat it for lunch. He scared the 1/2 burrito and every bit of sauce and sour cream stuck on my plate till it was almost clean. Then he began licking the plate. I was shocked so I started laughing. Never had I had an experience like that. Then he said next date is steak and shake or dennys. That was the end of that guy! I mean I use coupons and don't care if the guy does unless he only eats where he has coupons. What the guy did with the buy one get one free and took your money and has his free that is awful. Yours should of been free! | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 9:40:10 AM | | HAHAHA that is the funniest dating story ever!!! When I read the subject of the post, the first thing that popped in my head was, "well that's not so wrong" assuming that he paid for his and used the free meal on her LOL If that was the case, I would see no problem in that... or at least split what the bill was with the coupon!! I have no problem with a man that uses coupons... When I like someone, the only thing that matters to me is that we are spending time together, doesn't matter who pays or where they take me. But damn.... that was soooo wrong! Maybe he did it on purpose so she wouldn't like him?? I can't think of any other reason why he would be that bold...or stupid LOL | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/9/2008 10:04:23 AM |
I had an experience recently where the man suggested we go for supper rather than coffee, and then hesitated when the bill was presented. That hesitation prompted me to politely offer to pay half. When he readily agreed, I thought to myself, "Man....you just blew it."
Dont worry he didnt lose out as he probably didnt wnat to date a woman like you anyways who expect the man to pay for your food because you are a "woman"..ugh..i hate women like yourself who "expects" a guy to pay for you..why should he pay for you? are you that important ? is it because you have a vagina he should pay for you? | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 9/12/2008 11:06:42 AM | Wow, and I thought I'd heard all the cheap lines before, but that takes the cake. Run fast, and don't look back on that one. How rude can you get?
I'm not into cheap people at all...if you don't have the money to do something properly, don't do it at all. We've all went through rough patches (hello, college!), and that just means you live by your means and find something else to do.
How's this for a rude date? Guy won't stop pestering to hang out a few years back, and called eight times in one night to meet up (I'd left my phone in the car). Finally I agree, and meet him at the mall the next day (West Edmonton Mall has everything...if you have the money, that is). He finally gets there after a two hour bus ride (another pet peeve of mine), with absolutely NO money. Then what? I don't mind covering my half, but damned if I'm going to cover his! (especially since the whole idea was his) | |
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