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| I think I'd be impressed
Posted: 4/21/2007 9:15:00 PM | The guy obviously has his wits about him, and can quickly seize an opportunity to make a buck.
Hey let's face it, isn't that a quality most of ladies would only too pleased to find in a future mate?
I say if she plays her cards right, he'll be feathering a nice nest egg for both of them. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 9:19:46 PM | | Just so you know where I'm coming from,I'm old fashioned if I ask a woman out it's implied that its my treat.I don't buy into this on again off again feminist equality crap I asked her out the dinners on me.But your story re-enforces something I've said for years.Chicks like that talk about equality but when the cheque comes they still want a free ride.Sure some women make a half hearted attempt at paying thier own way but given a way out they take it.If they really lived by what they preach they'd pay thier half automatically and it wouldn't be a incident would it? I don't agree with what the guy did but I also don't agree with how she reacted.Everyone is far to critical of everything no wonder daters don't talk of anything of depth anymore.Fortunately I'm old fashioned and date woman that are so when the cheque comes I pay it and there's no retarded episodes like that. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 9:30:45 PM | | you say in your post that you pay the check and dont buy that feminist crap but say also they still want a free meal. *****they make a half hearted attempt at paying their own way but given a way out they take it. ****** another thing you wrote . yeah this is why i will pay my own way always. so no guy can say oh she wanted a free meal . you say you are old fashioned and always pay the check but in your mind you are thinking oh she just wanted a free ride. whatever i am just going to keep on doing what i do and if some hypocrite wants to call me a feminist fine. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 10:03:08 PM | AS far as I am concerned ....she got what she asked for by picking up the check and looking at it.
She had NO business doing that at all.
A woman should NEVER look or touch a check at a dinner date with a man.
He played her like a VIOLIN !!! | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 10:07:01 PM | | how can someone say they are old fashioned and want to pay the check, but in the next sentence say some women are looking for a free ride? huge contradiction my man. take a side and stick to it, that's some serious waffling you doing. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 10:26:17 PM | | Astreaa my dear you are the very definition of the term high maintenance, if you had given a different answer i would have been shocked. one thing i have to give you credit for luv, you are consistent. One never has to worry about what side of the fence you're on. You can always be found on the pretentious side. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 10:42:08 PM | What a jerk!!! Loser??? geeze.. if he wanted to use the coupon, he could have split it with her, but to do what he did was just stupid, underhanded and rude.
Tell your friend to run as fast as she can away from that jerk. When she suggested that she pay half, he should have mentioned he had a coupon added a tip (I guess she had to pay that, but it sounded bad the way it went off. I feel a woman should pay her own way on the first date, then take turns or just split. I have had men almost freak out when I tried to pay half, so I just excused myself, and went and paid the whole thing and had the waiter say it taken care of.
hmmmm I bet I would have been mad at this guy... Sort of like when you go out with a group, the check comes up to a large amount, everyone throws twentys ( expecting change) and someone grabs up the cash and hands a credit card to the waiter...
just wrong.
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 10:48:27 PM | | Ok I see I need to dumb it down cause someone didn't understand what I wrote.I'm old fashioned so when I ask a woman out dinners a 100% on me so no she doesn't have to pay for anything and thats just fine I'm just happy with her company.I was referring to the feminists and the double standards they play.The feminists whine about equality but as soon as the cheque comes then they shut up.The feminists make a half hearted attempt to pay but if a way out presents itself they take it.If they really lived by the crap they preach they'd pay thier half automatically and without incident right? | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 11:03:21 PM | "^ Despite what people think, you aren't REQUIRED to leave a tip. You leave a tip, if you can afford to, or want
to (some people don't approve of the idea of tips, on principle), to reward excellent service."
While it's not REQUIRED, please keep in mind 99% of most establishments only pay their servers 2.13/hr (in MO that's the minimum wage for serving staff)
If you're in doubt, ask the dining room floor manager if it's a non-tipping establishment. I know a few places that pay their servers 10/hr but they don't broadcast the fact it's a non-tipping establishment, and servers still walk with 100+ a night in cash.
I tip based on service. How long was I at my table, what did I put my server through, and how clean and sanitary was my server, how great was the service given? I will always tip at least 10% unless the server was absolutly horrible, upwards of 30% for excellent service. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 11:07:17 PM | Wow, sorry to go completely off topic.
On topic, personally, I would've while setting up the date said "Hey, I have a 2 for 1 coupon we can share for that place" or "I have a 2 for 1 coupon so I don't mind covering"
Something along those lines.
Or just not bothered using the coupon, on a first date, at least. *shrug* | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 11:11:07 PM | | i used to be a compulsive tipper too, and a good big tipper too, because i was in their shoes for a few years living off tips, but i find service is the $hitz in a lot of places anymore, so my compulsion to tip has worn off over the years...i'm just as apt to stiff the server altogether if she or he screws too much of the meals up...jmo | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 11:26:44 PM | I am with what TDH and a few other said about the "Dutch" thing. I've never had a Dutch date and unless I take a woman over to some country called Dutch I doubt I'll ever go that way.
Old fasioned means the guy opens th door on way into the Restraunt.. If setting at a table instead of a booth they pull out the chair they want her to sit in. Yes, they pick where she is going to sit. Normally because he knows where he wants to sit at that table. And it helps keep the man from standing there looking stupid holding a chair that she isn't sitting in. So Ladies try to help and sit where he is holding the chair.
The Gentleman that is Old Fashioned then ask the woman what she'd like to eat. Then either orders for her or allows her to order. He makes sure she gets what she want. He also picks up the "Entire" check. Nothing states part of it.
And since you mentioned this BlueSean... Not only do Waiters/Waitresses get paid half of Minimum Wage. They are also charged "Taxes" on 15 percent of Your Food bill in most cases.
So if your meal cost 20 dollars you can bet that the one serving you is paying an Income Tax on 15 percent of that 20 dollars. Why? Because IRS in their great wisdom assumes Everyone in the US tips the Service people 15% since that is the standard tipping idea across the country.
So IRS is getting most of the money that IRS "Thinks" your tipping.
This is why I tip 20 to 25% of the bill. Because I don't believe IRS should have a right to tax peoples Tips.
Now in some Restraunts... Not all. But in some the Owners has fixed it so the IRS only taxes the portions the Services workers get in tips. Instead of the "Estimated" amount of what they should get if everyone was nice enough to tip.
By the way, this is why some of you that never tip gets Service workers to give you a bad attitude. Your making them work for less than minimum wage.
I encourage all people to tip at the Major Restraunt type establishments. Wouldn't hurt for places like Sonic either. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/21/2007 11:50:05 PM |
Back them if you asked a girl out, you were paying, none of this politically correct crap. I liked it that way then , and i like it even better now that i can afford to do it. It's not about having a lady feel beholding to me, it's just about being a gentleman.
And I remember many MANY years ago when I was 17, saving my part time pay cheques for 2 months so I could take my boyfriend to "our" special French restaurant in Vancouver on his birthday. The bouillabaisse was the best I've ever had..... | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/22/2007 1:19:32 AM | I don't think that I'm understanding the question. Why would anyone expect to be impressed because someone paid for a dinner date using a two for one coupon? In my opinion, it's just something that you do if you have one. I wouldn't give it a second thought if my date paid for dinner using a coupon. I say woohoo to him. My friends and I do it all of the time, why would it be any different with a date, who I would hope would become my very best friend if things progressed to another level.
The question really should be, "Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon and stiffing her with the rest of the bill. Should she be angry?"
And my answer to that is, NO! She shouldn't be angry-- disappointed, yes, but I would think that anger would be a wasted emotion for the likes of him. Have a chuckle and move on. His behavior has probably lost him much more than money.
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/22/2007 1:24:18 AM | 
Pure.... awesomeness.
I'll tell you what though, if I was going for dinner with a girl and we'd agreed to split the bill, and then *she* paid her half using a 2 for 1 coupon, I'd still find it utterly hilarious. I mean, should I be offended she's a cheapskate? Do I care? It's hardly a deal-breaker. We'd probably have a laugh about it.
Wouldn't it be nice to think there are some women out there who don't take this 'who pays for what' crap so damn seriously too? | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/22/2007 1:34:13 AM | | hey i use two for one coupons all the time if i am out with friends or family . but you dont have the same type of relationship with friends and family that you do with someone you are dating. If its a dating relationship that has been going on awhile and you are a couple fine but not on a first date ,come on. you are supposed to put your best foot forward on a first date and very early in dating. you dont show up in crumpled clothes and dirty ,messy hair. you also dont show how much of a cheapskate you are either . frugal is good but two for one coupons have no place on a first date. | |
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| Paying for dinner date with 2 for 1 coupon. Will she be impressed?
Posted: 4/22/2007 1:40:37 AM | | NOPE. No way. Uh uh. Are u kidding me??? Not only should he have refused to allow her to pay for her food, but the coupon?? He must not have been into her. Seriously. I have only been out with 2 guys who were cheap like that. One, my ex husband (I was 17 and stupid) and 2 a guy I dated a while back who would not buy my drinks so I had to open up a tab. I thought we were going dutch at that point until I found out later that I had paid for his drinks too. AND he lived with his dad. Im a single mom with 5 kids and I live in my own apartment. I think those two guys just didn't like me that much. I mean otherwise, they would have tried harder to impress me. Don't forget when dating, they are on their BEST behavior. lol If that is as good as it gets...run, and run fast. | |
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| I think I'd be impressed
Posted: 4/22/2007 6:59:20 AM | | I read the OP and I am in shock . I think the point is that the guy was not interested in the lady so if he could save money on the deal why not ?? I do not agree with the tactics . I like to pay for the date even if I do not believe it will go further. As for coupons , I would not use them on a first date . In established relationships however I will use entertainment guide deals .They are fantastic and you get many wonderful restaurants . I would still go to restaurants not in the book though . | |
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