{"id":10819,"date":"2025-10-10T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=10819"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:21:55","slug":"my-date-insisted-on-paying-the-bill-i-wish-i-hadnt-let-him-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=10819","title":{"rendered":"My Date Insisted on Paying the Bill \u2013 I Wish I Hadn\u2019t Let Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Eric insisted on paying for our first date, I thought he was a true gentleman \u2014 roses, a thoughtful gift, and great conversation. But the next morning, he sent me an invoice for the date, listing every \u201cservice\u201d he\u2019d provided and what I supposedly owed him: a hug for the roses, a selfie for opening my door, a second date for dinner. At the bottom, it even said \u201cpayment expected in full \u2014 or Chris will hear about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sent it to my friend Mia, who\u2019d set us up, and her boyfriend Chris made a hilarious \u201cinvoice\u201d back to Eric charging him for wasting my time. Eric blew up, claiming I\u2019d missed out on a \u201cgreat guy.\u201d I just sent a thumbs-up and blocked him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesson learned: if a man insists on paying, make sure he\u2019s not planning to bill you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Eric insisted on paying for our first date, I thought he was a true gentleman \u2014 roses, a thoughtful gift, and great conversation. But the next&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":337,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10821,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions\/10821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}