But he had no trouble with her ordering branzino, which is more expensive. Maybe he just didn’t want to pay that much for a $.10 piece of cheese.
I like frugal men (they balance me out :-).
It might make me feel bad if he were taking me out for the first time and foregoing something he wanted because of the cost. But I wonder how many women know to order the more inexpensive items on the menu, when they first go out with a man whose circumstances they don’t really know...
Could be, he figured she was gonna be expensive and was making sure he had enough to pay for what she wanted. And maybe, she just looks at how much money a man has and nothing else matters.