Given how different people can be from each other, there’s not necessarily a wrong way to date.
Ideas that would seem tacky or uninteresting to one potential partner might be exactly what someone else is looking for. And while some may expect you to pay when they go out to eat, others may find it easier or more desirable to simply split the bill.
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So when people share what they prefer to do on dates, there’s always going to be some debate. But because most people don’t pull the move that one man on the outs decided to try, that debate was particularly lively this time around.
When a woman named Alex posted an unusual message she received on Twitter, it came after a brief period of seeing a guy.
They had been on a few dates before either one or both of them decided that they weren’t likely to form a relationship.
But while the guy seemed to accept that, he wasn’t entirely done talking to her yet.
Back in February, he sent her a message inquring about her Venmo information.
As Alex would soon discover, this was because he wanted to be reimbursed for the money he spent on her during their three dates. And he figured that $35 should cover it.
In a follow-up tweet a couple of days after this, Alex revealed that she did not pay him what he asked for.
As she put it in a message accompanied by a GIF of Boo from Monsters Inc. suddenly falling asleep, “How I’m going to sleep tonight knowing I still have that $35.”
And the situation was certainly amusingly to other Twitter users as one of them said , “Didn’t realize you had to set up prenups for dating now.”
Whether they agreed with him or not, some users thought the man was embarrassing himself with this request.
And while we’ll often say that we can’t put a price on our dignity, this person clearly thought that the man not only tried to do that, but sold it at a discount.
Still, as out of the ordinary as the guy’s message was, that didn’t stop some users from thinking he had a point.
One user seemed to wish they had thought of something like that after feeling as though they wasted time and money on relationships that went nowhere.
Others, however, stood firm that the man should’ve understood the risks before he agreed to pay for everything on those dates.
One of the replies to the last tweet stated that if this was how he felt, he should have asked to split the bill while they were actually going out instead of trying to get reimbursed after the fact.
Others compared the world of dating to gambling and pointed out that it’s not like we expect to get our money back when we lose at a casino.
Another user pointed out that splitting the bill from the get-go also would have made it more likely that he’d save $35 than this attempt of trying to get it back after the fact.
They also pointed out that even if we’re cutting each bill in half, $35 seems oddly low for the combined total of three dates.
And it’s a particularly weird amount to try and act like a collections agency about after the fact.
For others, this move seemed to provide a little insight into why the relationship didn’t work out in the first place.
Granted, we don’t know how exactly the conversation around the bill went during these dates. But it’s hard not to find it misleading if someone offers to pay for the whole meal only to take back that offer after it’s already been accepted.
You just never know what’s going to bring out the internet’s biggest discussions.
