[Jack Hydrazine]

A way to avoid dinner.

When you’re asking her out, say something like “Well, what time are you eating dinner?”

She might think you’re asking her to dinner.

When she gives an answer, like “Oh, I was thinking about 7:30,” you make your move.

Say, “Ok, and about an hour and a half to eat, I’ll pick you up at 9 and we can get some drinks?”

You’ve done it.

She’ll probably look dumbfounded for a second, or think that you are a little “dense,” but you have just won. That’s an entire dinner you don’t have to pay for!

[dr_lew]

Cf. You just ASK Them ? in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" ( the quotes are part of the title, ) wherein our hero learns from "the master" that the secret to bedding a girl is never to pay for anything, and successfully applies this surefire principle. ( And as we know from Who Stole the Door?, our hero never lies. )

[Delta Dawn]

‘That’s an entire dinner you don’t have to pay for!’

It heartens me to know that romance isn’t dead. :)

[sauropod]

Heh.

Love it!

[kabumpo]

And a date you are not going to get, you scheming J o h n.