When my best friend Mia set me up with Eric, she promised he was a \u201ctotal gentleman.\u201d And at first, he really seemed like one he brought roses, a personalized keychain with my initial, and was effortlessly charming over dinner. He even insisted on paying the full bill, saying, \u201cA man pays on the first date,\u201d with a confident smile. I left the restaurant thinking I\u2019d just had the best first date of my life..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next morning, expecting a cute \u201chad a great time\u201d text, I opened my phone to find something horrifying a date night invoice<\/strong>. Professionally formatted, it listed \u201ccharges\u201d like a hug for the bouquet, a coffee date for the keychain, and holding hands next time in exchange for him covering dinner. It ended with a threat: \u201cFailure to comply may result in Chris hearing about it.\u201d<\/strong> That\u2019s when I realized he wasn\u2019t joking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stunned, I sent the invoice to Mia, who instantly looped in her boyfriend Chris Eric\u2019s long-time friend and we all agreed: Eric had to be taught a lesson. Chris sent him a revenge invoice: a fake \u201cservice charge\u201d for sitting at the same table as me, plus a warning about public humiliation. Eric exploded with angry texts, claiming I missed out on a \u201cgreat guy.\u201d I simply responded with a thumbs-up emoji and blocked him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That night, Mia called still laughing, apologizing for the setup gone wrong. But honestly, I wasn\u2019t even mad. Eric revealed his true colors early, and I dodged a major red flag. Plus, now I have an epic story to tell at parties for years the guy who sent an invoice for a first date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my best friend Mia set me up with Eric, she promised he was a \u201ctotal gentleman.\u201d And at first, he really seemed like one he brought… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":503,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","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=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}