Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - First Dates: Who Should Pay…and Why
View Single Post
 
Old 07-22-2014, 02:18 AM
manaboutown manaboutown is offline
Sage
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NJ, NM, SC, PA, DC, MD, VA, NY, CA, ID and finally FL.
Posts: 7,846
Thanks: 14,285
Thanked 5,090 Times in 1,947 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr View Post
I am happily married, but if I were single and asked a woman out on a date, I would pay. However, if she invited me out, I think that she should pay, but I wouldn't refuse if she wanted to split it.

It makes sense to me that if you invite someone they are your guest and you pay.
That is the way it works for me.

If I meet a woman from an internet dating site I do not consider our first meet a date. Usually we make it for coffee or drinks and I normally pick up the tab. I have found that if a woman wants to pay for her drink there will not be a future date!

As things progress whoever does the inviting picks up the tab unless it is a big deal, like a trip to New Zealand. Then we split the cost somehow.
__________________
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine