[EnquiringMind]

Although my grandmother isn't asking for a lot of money -- just a few hundred dollars

This doesn't make any sense. He's worried that his grandmother is going to spend a few hundred dollars on something he and his wife would never spend it on. I wonder how many fancy NYC restaurants he and his wife have attended and spent at least that in one evening.

[jude24]

This doesn't make any sense. He's worried that his grandmother is going to spend a few hundred dollars on something he and his wife would never spend it on. I wonder how many fancy NYC restaurants he and his wife have attended and spent at least that in one evening

It would be one thing for me to spend my own money to take my girlfriend to a fancy restaurant. It's quite another for someone else to ask for my money to do that.

[Kickass Conservative]

The author lives in Louisiana, not New York.

They probably spend a ton on fried catfish and okra though.