[Alouette]

How bothered should I have been?

Dear Bridey,

You set yourself up when YOU OFFERED TO PAY for the dinner.

[William McKinley]

Yeah, and then made it clear she was going to dog off personal expenses on her employer.

[Vinnie]

You set yourself up when YOU OFFERED TO PAY for the dinner.

Exactly

Of course she wants it both ways. Typical lib feminazi.

A friend of mine went on a dating service date several yrs ago.
He opened the car door for her. She complained that she could open it herself.
He closed the door, walked around to the driver's side, got in and drove off. Left her standing at the curb.

[Pagey]

"You set yourself up when YOU OFFERED TO PAY for the dinner".

"Case Closed" BUMP!

[ROSCOE SWACKHAMMER]

From his perspective, what started out as a blind date, a chance to meet a new, perhaps exciting and intriguing woman, changed into being the unwitting subject in her next article! She's paying and charging it off as research? "I'm a lab rat?" Note to self: no dates with comediennes looking for new material, no dates with writers hoping to get past their current writer's block, no dates with religious zealots hoping to find another man to save....the failure to hold the door, the stiffing her for the cab was his message: no need to call for another date.

[NeoCaveman]

You set yourself up when YOU OFFERED TO PAY for the dinner.

He knew right there he wasn't getting any. He probably made tracks to a night club after escaping her.

[cajun-jack]

she only got screwed out of dinner and cab fare...can't catch aids getting screwed that way....

[FITZ]

Of course he protested, but I insisted. I told him I would expense it - as research.

What did it matter once the date had become just research?