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Nancy Young[_3_] Nancy Young[_3_] is offline
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Default Miss Manners on dining out: "Who should get the check?"

Lenona wrote:

> From a hotheaded male at Glennsacks.com (the site, which is mainly
> about the rights of divorced fathers, has changed drastically and you
> can't find comments there anymore, so I'm guessing the audience has
> shifted to www.fathersandfamilies.org )
>
> "This all has very little to do with money. Neither does it have
> anything to do with fancy-shmancy arguments. It's really quite simple.
> If I'm sitting across the table from a woman who touts her grrrlll
> power during a date, and then when the check comes, she runs for the
> women's room or hides her head in the sand, I know she's full of
> S__t.
>
> "She's a con artist and a liar. Why? Because she claims to be one
> thing, then acts like another thing.


Boy, women must be lining up to date a charmer like him. If you are
going to begrudge taking me out for dinner, don't ask me. It's that
simple. I am not someone who feels comfortable not paying my
way, and I have insulted guys by offering to chip in for the check,
but if we're on our first date and you're looking hard at me to see
how I act when the bill comes, I'd rather stay home. We have no
long term prospects anyway, because that kind of attitude isn't
for me.

nancy