So I have the opportunity to go "all out"...

Alphathree33

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...to take this girl to dinner, all out. Hmm, I might call her my "girlfriend" if it wasn't for the fact that that would be a very simplistic qualifier for a very complicated situation. So "this girl" shall remain the title. :)

Anyway, we played badminton for a few hours today (yes, it is a real sport! people play it!) and went to timmy's for three hours... ever sat in tim horton's for three hours? The staff begin to think you're weird. But the time flew by as we talked, of course. Before I leave for Waterloo (part of the reason that this is so complicated), she wants to go to dinner with me. We used to like to go to the race track (horse racing) but I'm going with some colleagues from work and we like to be alone. And there's only that one race left between now and when I leave. So dinner (on another night) it is.

The italian community in my city is full of awesome restaurants, so I've just got to pick one. Thanks to the fact that my mother has taken me to more or less all of them, that won't be difficult.

This is my real question: I'm going to end up going somewhere where dinner for the two of us will be $100-200 and she's going to want to pay. She's like that. She scammed me at timmy's today and tricked me out of paying. She does it all the time. My this-isnt-the-way-its-supposed-to-work sensor flares up.

I need a surefire way to make sure she doesn't even try to pay. Im not going to sit there and argue with her when the waiter comes with our bill, heh. Any ideas? I figure I could just make the meal so incredibly expensive that she wouldn't even think about paying, but then again that seems silly. There must be a better way.
 

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Originally posted by: diskop
Start makin out with her as she's pickin up the check. That'll show her!

Oooooooooo-kay
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Ok to be serious, give the manager your credit card as you're going in while she's not looking (when you're going to the loo). That way they can charge you already and she can't fight.
 

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make the reservations in advance, and ask to be seated in a particular server's station. Give him a small advance on his tip, and let him know that you'll be getting the check for the meal. Or, you can talk to the maitre'd in advance, and ask him allow you to pay the approximate cost of your meal in advance, and that you'll settle the difference later on. Either way, they'll probably work with you to make sure the folio doesn't go to her.
 

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Originally posted by: diskop
Ok to be serious, give the manager your credit card as you're going in while she's not looking (when you're going to the loo). That way they can charge you already and she can't fight.

Not a bad idea, except I share my credit card with my mother and I don't want her to have any idea how much this is going to cost me. :) [it would appear on her statement]
 

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Originally posted by: glenn1
make the reservations in advance, and ask to be seated in a particular server's station. Give him a small advance on his tip, and let him know that you'll be getting the check for the meal. Or, you can talk to the maitre'd in advance, and ask him allow you to pay the approximate cost of your meal in advance, and that you'll settle the difference later on. Either way, they'll probably work with you to make sure the folio doesn't go to her.

I was thinking about something like that... but it seems so complicated... I mean, it's just paying for dinner. I'm not trying to infiltrate the Pentagon.
 

AnyMal

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Just tell her "my treat" BEFORE you go to dinner and you won't have to engage in an argument before the restaurant staff.
 

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Originally posted by: AnyMal
Just tell her "my treat" BEFORE you go to dinner and you won't have to engage in an argument before the restaurant staff.

No she already said she wants to pay, and she is non-negotiable on that point. (Trust me, I've tried.)
 

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Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: glenn1
make the reservations in advance, and ask to be seated in a particular server's station. Give him a small advance on his tip, and let him know that you'll be getting the check for the meal. Or, you can talk to the maitre'd in advance, and ask him allow you to pay the approximate cost of your meal in advance, and that you'll settle the difference later on. Either way, they'll probably work with you to make sure the folio doesn't go to her.

I was thinking about something like that... but it seems so complicated... I mean, it's just paying for dinner. I'm not trying to infiltrate the Pentagon.

Its JUST paying for dinner?!?!?! A 200 dollar dinner!!!

This is comparing Tim Horton's to some nice expensive Italian restraunt!? Just go ahead and try to talk to teh waiter in adavance or even excuse yourself during the course of the meal and tell the waiter YOU want to pay
 

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Originally posted by: neomits
Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: glenn1 make the reservations in advance, and ask to be seated in a particular server's station. Give him a small advance on his tip, and let him know that you'll be getting the check for the meal. Or, you can talk to the maitre'd in advance, and ask him allow you to pay the approximate cost of your meal in advance, and that you'll settle the difference later on. Either way, they'll probably work with you to make sure the folio doesn't go to her.
I was thinking about something like that... but it seems so complicated... I mean, it's just paying for dinner. I'm not trying to infiltrate the Pentagon.
Its JUST paying for dinner?!?!?! A 200 dollar dinner!!! This is comparing Tim Horton's to some nice expensive Italian restraunt!? Just go ahead and try to talk to teh waiter in adavance or even excuse yourself during the course of the meal and tell the waiter YOU want to pay

I was comparing those two... restaurant establishments... only because she would try to pay at either one. Cost is not the issue.

Your suggestion has already been thrown out into the fray. :)
 

AnyMal

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Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: AnyMal
Just tell her "my treat" BEFORE you go to dinner and you won't have to engage in an argument before the restaurant staff.

No she already said she wants to pay, and she is non-negotiable on that point. (Trust me, I've tried.)
Ok, then try this; if she ends up paying, get her $200 worth of flowers. There is not a woman alive that I know, that turned down flowers.
 

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Well, I think I talked her into it. (Letting me pay) Yay.

I'm considering becoming a priest. Life will be so much simpler that way. (What does the Catholic church think about atheists, anyway?)
 

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Originally posted by: dirtboy
A girl that pays?! Sign me up today!!

I would say keep your grubby paws off, but she's so conservative you'd never get near her anyway. Hehe.
 

AreaCode707

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Give the waiter ample cash in advance and he can bring the change after dinner. No problem.

Now, if you find money in your car afterwards, you have a very insistent lady friend.
 

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Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Not a bad idea, except I share my credit card with my mother and I don't want her to have any idea how much this is going to cost me. :) [it would appear on her statement]


Bahahahahahaaa... :Q
 

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Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: dirtboy
A girl that pays?! Sign me up today!!

I would say keep your grubby paws off, but she's so conservative you'd never get near her anyway. Hehe.

I just can't believe such a woman exists. I've never had a woman offer to pay, even for their own half. Kinda annoying when you go out, they're going to get and then they as if you're paying. Once I tell them I am paying, their order suddenly changes to more expensive items. Weak!! Besides, it's not like I want your woman or anything.
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Originally posted by: dirtboy
Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: dirtboy A girl that pays?! Sign me up today!!
I would say keep your grubby paws off, but she's so conservative you'd never get near her anyway. Hehe.
I just can't believe such a woman exists. I've never had a woman offer to pay, even for their own half. Kinda annoying when you go out, they're going to get and then they as if you're paying. Once I tell them I am paying, their order suddenly changes to more expensive items. Weak!! Besides, it's not like I want your woman or anything.
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Well, asians are a bit different I suppose. :)
 

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Ok, then try this; if she ends up paying, get her $200 worth of flowers. There is not a woman alive that I know, that turned down flowers.
why, did you kill the ones who did?
:)
 

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This is my real question: I'm going to end up going somewhere where dinner for the two of us will be $100-200 and she's going to want to pay. She's like that. She scammed me at timmy's today and tricked me out of paying. She does it all the time.
Stop resisting! Yeah, I know how it feels. It's happened to me before but I can't explain because it's naptime. ;)

Just imagine this before the bill comes:

"Alphathree33, you've turned off your this-isnt-the-way-its-supposed-to-work sensor! What's wrong?"
"Nothing. :D"
 

GasX

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she's insisting on paying for dinner and you are trying to change that by making her take you to an expensive restaurant? Nice guy...
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Make a deal in advance that you will pay for dinner next time. Now make sure that THIS time you go to a cheap restaurant and NEXT time you go to the expensive restaurant.
 

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Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: dirtboy
Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: dirtboy A girl that pays?! Sign me up today!!
I would say keep your grubby paws off, but she's so conservative you'd never get near her anyway. Hehe.
I just can't believe such a woman exists. I've never had a woman offer to pay, even for their own half. Kinda annoying when you go out, they're going to get and then they as if you're paying. Once I tell them I am paying, their order suddenly changes to more expensive items. Weak!! Besides, it's not like I want your woman or anything.
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Well, asians are a bit different I suppose. :)

Fascinating. Perhaps they are different? All I've ever dated is white women.
 

AreaCode707

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Originally posted by: dirtboy

Well, asians are a bit different I suppose. :)

Fascinating. Perhaps they are different? All I've ever dated is white women.[/quote]

I'm as white as they come (no semblence of a tan even) and I pay my own way, thank you. Even after dating for a year, my xbf and I would get into fun give-and-take squabbles over who paid.
 

Alphathree33

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Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: dirtboy Well, asians are a bit different I suppose. :)
Fascinating. Perhaps they are different? All I've ever dated is white women.
I'm as white as they come (no semblence of a tan even) and I pay my own way, thank you. Even after dating for a year, my xbf and I would get into fun give-and-take squabbles over who paid.[/quote]

Hey welcome to my world! Even when I think "gee, I'm so tan" I look at people who actually are and realize that I'm not. Lol.

Really though, I can't let a girl pay for me.