{"id":54168,"date":"2025-03-08T06:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54168"},"modified":"2025-03-08T06:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:37:47","slug":"my-date-insisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54168","title":{"rendered":"My Date Insisted\u00a0>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-394.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-394.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-394-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went on a date with a guy my friend set me up with. He showed up with roses\u2014actual roses, not a grocery store bunch. Dinner was perfect. He was charming, opened doors, pulled out my chair. When the check came, I reached for my wallet\u2014big mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d he said, sliding his card down. \u201cA man pays on the first date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I left thinking it was one of the best dates ever\u2014until he messaged me later: \u201cI don\u2019t believe in letting women think they can just get free meals. I paid as a courtesy, but now that the date is over, I expect fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was stunned. The money wasn\u2019t the issue\u2014it was the principle. He made such a show of paying and then wanted his money back?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I replied, \u201cYou made it clear YOU were paying. I offered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He messaged again, accusing me of ruining his reputation. I laughed and shared the receipts. His post was deleted, but the damage was done. His name spread across local Facebook groups as a red flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend apologized, but lesson learned: trust your gut. And Kevin, hope that $68.42 was worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54165\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went on a date with a guy my friend set me up with. He showed up with roses\u2014actual roses, not a grocery store bunch. Dinner was&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54170,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54168\/revisions\/54170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}