Cheap Man #98579
I was out with the ladies on Friday night, and we were exchanging some date horror stories. I’ve blogged about cheap men before (read here and here). It’s either a 21st century thing, or I’m too old and not slutty enough to have men pay for me. It’s a weird new phenomenon. A friend of mine had a pretty good story about male cheapness that I wanted to share.
She went out with a guy that her and the other ladies at the table referred to as “Creepy Dave”. I think that was mistake #1. When he asked her out, he suggested going to a Leafs game. She is a hockey fan, so she was pretty excited about it. He said he would pick up some tickets. For those of you non-Canadians, that’s kinda a big deal. Leafs tickets are not easy or cheap to come by. She said she was fully prepared to pay her own way, so the cash part of it wasn’t an issue, but he did say he would pay for them.
When she met up with him at some pre-determined corner before the game, he said that he wasn’t able to score any tickets, and he’d already tried to scalpers and they were asking too much. She offered to try her hand at the scalpers, but he said it wasn’t worth it, and offered to buy her a drink to make up for it. She was mildly disappointed, but not so much so that she would go home.
They had a few drinks, some appetizers, and when the bill came, he pulled out a $20 and said “I did offer to pay for the first round”.
….what?
He had gone from offering to buy her a ticket to the hottest sporting event in town to paying for one pint. It’s not like they were having caviar and champagne. They were at Jack Astors! And he had more than one drink!
So he pretty much told her he was a liar (for not having Leafs tickets like he promised) and that he was a cheap bastard. It’s not even my story but so good.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Sad. Your life is so boring now that you can’t come up with your own stories. You have to borrow your friend’s.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Hahahaha!!! B!tch Darcie is awesome! I mean, yeah, that guy is pretty cheap. I had a hot girl buy me drinks last night, that was pretty great too.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:40 am
you know b!tch darcie - some of us are just lucky enough to have not dated this guy. by your bitter comment i figure you dated him for upwards of 6 months and are just hating on darcie’s friend for having the brains to ditch him after the first (um, do you even call that a date?) date.
darcie - hilarious story…totally worth the share…i feel less bad that i paid for the cub’s drink last night…i’m not sure he’s old enough to know what a tab is or that he did put one of his beers on mine…
July 14th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Ya I don’t know why he would tell her he could produce the tickets. 2 questions, 1) if he realized he wouldn’t have the funds available for the date he thought he would, should he have canceled? and 2) off-topic, what talking points should I hit when breaking up with a girlfriend of 3 weeks who is very into me but i’m just not feeling it for? Although untrue, is it better to say that a long lost love has come back into my life instead of ‘I can tell you are not someone i’ll ever feel more than basic affection for’?
Tip for cheapoes, make dinner for them and do it well. Its a paradox though cause most girls don’t come to your place on the first date.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
B!tchDarcie is a wannabe.
Ryan, you’re cheap.
Sadiejayn Who’s the cub? Did you go out with a baby bear?
Dave Coullier: Is that your real name?
1) not cancelled, but let her know that he couldn’t get tickets and offer an alternative date.
2) My friends and I were just talking about this. Good for you for talking to her. Any excuse will do if you don’t plan on ever seeing her again. While I always like to be honest about everything, it would be easier for me to grasp the long-lost-love story than “i’m just not that into you”. 3 weeks is a small amount of time though, so the latter would work just fine. I don’t ever want to get dumped for someone else thought if I’ve known the guy a while. That hurts.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
And no this is not TV’s Uncle Joey, its just I suspect its possible she’s obsessive enough to be reading tracking the blogs i post on and so used a moniker that is chronologically appropriate relative to Teen Wolf and Marty McFly.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
AHAHHAHAHAHHAH!!! You must be a stud to make a woman that nuts in 3 weeks. You should’ve gone with Alex P Keaton.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Or Doc Hollywood…
July 14th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Who the hell is Doc Hollywood?
July 14th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Almost sounds like a joke:
Teenwolf, Marty McFly and Dave Coulier walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Sorry guys, we don’t serve washed up losers here”. Marty and Dave left, but Teenwolf stayed and proceeded to nail the Bartenders wife and 3 daughters.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
As always, thanks for your insight Teenwolf.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
@Darcie: Stud? My business card does say ‘Dating Consultant’, if I can’t back that up by being studly its an epicfail
@Darcie: Doc Hollywood was a lesser known Micheal J Fox film, not as 80’s iconic as others but it had its day.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I’m so getting business cards done up with ‘Dating Consultant’ on them. Oh wait, I’m a huge dating failure.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
cub as in cougar bait - thought i was too young to cougar, but a guy left his business card for me at the bar that i work at…i called after stressing over it for days (he was smoking and there were sparks between us) left him a message, he called back, we decided to meet for drinks last night…turns out he’s 21!!! (I’m 29) so I officially cougared my first cub…demi moore would be so proud…
July 14th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Not sure the context but it sounds like this was a first date and I’m not a huge believer on paying for everything on the first date. I think going dutch can tell you a lot from the reaction when you genuinely expect her to pay her share. I can almost guarantee you’ll know where the relationship is headed if you can get a good look at her facial expression at that moment. Most girls will do the fake reach to pay, maybe even fumble for finding their credit card but I think the genuine girls will pony up…
July 14th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
@sadiejayn That’s an AWESOME story! You must have some great ones working in a bar! I’ve thought about getting a bar gig just for some material.
@colins It WAS the first date, and this gal isn’t as superficial as me, and was prepared to pay her own way, but ok with him paying if he insisted. The weird part of the story is that he went from buying expensive Leafs tickets to paying for one of her beers. It’s a pretty dramatic switch. I’ll have to respond to the whole first-date-pay thing in a different post.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:33 am
I just had a first date recently…and I haven’t had a guy this into me in a while! (I’d say it’d probably help if I got out more..lol) but he was fully willing to pay and we’re going out again tomorrow. He has a full time job, I’m back in school. (But I may eventually make dinner for him, as he’s already started hinting for meatloaf.) Anyway…Chivalry is not dead! (I’m not getting ahead of myself this time either. He says something about sometime in the future, and I just remind him, don’t get ahead of yourself! He’s started saying it for me. :) )
Anyway, I think that’s the way it should still be done if you’re wanting to possibly start a real relationship with someone. If later on it’s worked out, then maybe dutch, or taking turns. But I figure if he wants me to pay my part, he’s not that into me. (And it’s been proven a time or two.)
Sorry my two cents are late…again! ;)
July 15th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Good luck with the new man!