TightwadsThere's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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That's another convenient get outIt looks a sensible idea on first view, but the main problems are :
Alternating payment on meals etc only really makes sense for someone you already know.
In straight dating the proportion of women who will not ask a man out, ever, is non trivial. Of the women who will ask a man out, there are also a (mad) minority, who will then claim the man did the asking and should pay when he actually didn't..
End result : men end up out of pocket more than women. I think sometimes this is accidental, and know sometimes it is a deliberate sense of entitlement by the woman.
Having said all the above, though, the vast majority of my dates have been with independent women who tend to split the bill as standard. Any subsequent failure has not been, as far as I can see, due to who paid.
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