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 Originally Posted by The Bean Counter
The standard still seems to be the guy offers to pay, but the key is for the woman to offer to pay half and you can either agree if it didn't go well, or suggest she pays for the next date if everything is good. If a woman doesn't offer to pay half then you know she's a princess and you wouldn't call her back anyway.
This is my understanding of the protocol too; seems to work for me.
 Originally Posted by The Bean Counter
Anyway, long story short. Guy at work offers to pay half, gets shouted at in the restaurant for making the suggestion, having the audacity to think she can't pay her way, etc.
Does not compute. If he's only offering half how is that thinking she can't pay her own way?
That said, I always offer to pay the whole thing every time whether I like her or not. I've been on some first dates who rubbed me the wrong way, but never did it occur to me to lolbail without saying anything. I've cut a couple short though, and never got a freaked out reaction about it. Maybe I need to date more immature women, dunno.
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