Dating ettiquett in Canada

**Beirut** · 04-03-2005, 12:34

Grasshopper, TogakureOjonin shows wisdom and style. I concur.

In my small town there were three restaurants, but one was really nice. Everything cooked in a wood oven right in front of you. Pretty expensive though. So I always took the women there for the first date. When it came time to pay, they always offered to help, my excuse was that I had a very good week at work and was more than delighted to pick up the bill. I found this made me look generous and hard working but not like yuppie scum waiving around the hundred dollar bills.

Sometimes, if it was the second or third date, I went and saw the owner in advance, who I knew, and left him $150 (no credit cards for Beirut) and told him if the bill was more than that I'd be back the next day to cover it. Always nice to finish dinner, put your coat on and just walk out while the owner smiles and says goodnight. No money stuff to spoil the mood.

Oh, and if you're with a women who doesn't like you holding the door for her, tell her she has no choice. Smile and be unmovable. The first time she sees you stand in the rain and hold the door for a old lady with her groceries, or better yet help with the groceries, she'll understand. I have done this all my life and make no mistake, the women love it. (Also, my father would rise from the grave and kill me if I ever walked through the door and let it swing back on a woman.)

**SwordsMaster** · 04-03-2005, 16:31

and left him $150

One 150 bill?

I don´t like credit cards either. Mainly because I never know how much money there is left, and I´m just too lazy to walk to the ATM. On the other hand, the closest ATM is 3 miles away...

**Beirut** · 04-03-2005, 17:02

When I said no credit cards for Beirut, it wasn't because I don't like them - it's because they don't like me.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 04-03-2005, 17:13

Here's a pic of Beirut waiting for his latest blind date to show up.

**frogbeastegg** · 04-03-2005, 17:41

A bit late maybe, but here's the frog's 2p. Paying is good; my poor dear boyfriend has insisted on paying for damned near everything aside from raw cooking ingredients in the last two and a half years and I adore him for it. Because I like the poor dear I never try to bankrupt him

As for why I like the poor thing paying, well that's probably rather long and boring so I will spare you, but it's nothing to do with me being a cheapskate or wondering about him as a provider, and more about a sign of how serious his interest in me is. That innocent sounding category breaks up into quite a mess, parts of it probably only relevant to this quite wary frog. Plus I'm also a sucker for gentlemen type stuff.

But that said if she does want to split the bill or pay for something herself, let her. Spending ten minutes trying to convince your lovable male pet (

) to let you pay for dinner for once is highly annoying; I know - been there, got fed up of that. The erm, 'war' lasted several weeks of running skirmishes and ended up with a peace agreement that's quite complex despite its apparant simplicity.