About a month ago, this guy decided to go out on a second date with a woman after they hit it off during their first outing.
For their first date, they had gone out to eat at a local Mexican restaurant, and he paid the tab. So, for their second date, they opted to visit a pho restaurant instead.
Toward the end of the date, though, he was a bit taken aback when she mentioned how she wanted to order a meal for her adult son. So, she placed the order with their waiter, and when the bill came, it totaled about $50.
“I didn’t say anything about her son’s bowl, as I felt the situation to be a bit awkward,” he recalled.
That’s why he just grabbed his credit card and went to pay for their dinner anyway.
Well, the woman then reached out and stopped him– claiming that she couldn’t let him just pay for her son’s food. Then, she actually grabbed the check from him.
And after that, he was under the impression that she just wanted to split the bill with him.
“So I gave her a $20 bill to cover my $15 plus tip, and she said nothing at all to me,” he explained.
Yet, following the date, he realized that their text conversations had come to a screeching halt. All of a sudden, the woman just started sending him sporadic, short replies every now and then.
This pushed him to finally ask what was wrong, and the woman eventually revealed that she’d been very put off by the fact that he didn’t pay for their second date.
He was pretty confused by that, too, and it took a bit of back and forth to understand her perspective.
“Which essentially was that she should pay for her son’s food, and I pay for the rest. And because I didn’t offer that, I was in the wrong,” he vented.
After getting to the bottom of why she was so upset, he pointed out how she should have communicated her expectations to him or at least had her son’s food placed on a separate bill.
Regardless, the woman actually just responded to his text with a bunch of laughing face emojis. And now, in the wake of their date gone wrong, he’s still unsure if not footing the bill was really a jerky move or not.
Can you understand why he was confused by what the woman wanted during their date? Does it sound like there was just a miscommunication? Should she have put her son’s food on a different tab or not? How would you’ve reacted in this situation?
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By Katharina Buczek
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