{"id":790,"date":"2025-03-03T20:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2025-03-03T20:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:47:51","slug":"my-date-insisted-on-paying-the-bill-i-wish-i-hadnt-let-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"My Date Insisted on Paying the Bill \u2013 I Wish I Hadn&#8217;t Let Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mia set me up on a date with Eric, claiming he was a great guy, and her boyfriend Chris vouched for him. Eric seemed charming at first, showing up with flowers and a thoughtful gift. Dinner went well, with good conversation, and he even insisted on paying. But the next morning, I received an invoice from him, listing charges for things like flowers, conversation, and holding the door. He even included a note threatening to send an &#8220;outstanding balance&#8221; to collections.<\/p>\n<p>I shared the invoice with Mia, and she was shocked. Chris, her boyfriend, couldn&#8217;t believe it either and decided to get back at Eric by creating a fake invoice of his own, listing charges for ridiculous things like &#8220;convincing her you were a gentleman.&#8221; Eric was furious and sent angry messages, but I blocked him without responding. Mia and I laughed it off, knowing this would be a story for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mia set me up on a date with Eric, claiming he was a great guy, and her boyfriend Chris vouched for him. Eric seemed charming <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=790\" title=\"My Date Insisted on Paying the Bill \u2013 I Wish I Hadn&#8217;t Let Him\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}