When Kelly\u2019s best friend set her up on a date with Eric, she didn\u2019t expect much. But from the start, he came across as a perfect gentleman \u2014 roses, a thoughtful gift, opening doors, charming conversation. By the end of the night, she was genuinely impressed and thought it might\u2019ve been one of her best first dates ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next morning, though, her excitement turned into disbelief. Instead of a sweet text, Eric sent her a professional invoice<\/em>. Listed were \u201ccharges\u201d for the flowers, gift, opening doors, dinner, and even \u201cengaging conversation,\u201d all with payment terms like hugs, compliments, and a guaranteed second date. At the bottom, it warned \u201cfailure to comply may result in collections (Chris will hear about it).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelly immediately sent it to Mia, who showed it to Chris \u2014 Eric\u2019s longtime friend. Horrified but amused, Chris drafted his own mock invoice in return: charges for \u201cintroducing you to a gorgeous woman\u201d (payment: permanent block), \u201cnot exposing you to the internet\u201d (payment: eternal gratitude), and \u201cletting you sit at the same table as her\u201d (payment: apology to all women you\u2019ve dated). It was brutal, hilarious, and exactly the clapback Eric deserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eric didn\u2019t take it well, firing off angry texts about \u201crealistic expectations\u201d and insisting Kelly had \u201cmissed out on a great guy.\u201d But Kelly simply blocked him and moved on, laughing with her friends about the bizarre experience. The only thing she kept was the engraved keychain he\u2019d given her \u2014 not as a keepsake of Eric, but as a funny reminder of the weirdest date of her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Kelly\u2019s best friend set her up on a date with Eric, she didn\u2019t expect much. But from the start, he came across as a perfect gentleman… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":478,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}