Yeah, I gotta agree. And it’s fun doing it! (For both parties)
When I read OP, I think of a friend of mine who is exactly like the women in the story except that he is male. In his case, he just wanted the pizza and planned to deal with the inconvinent problem of money AFTER the pizza arrived. Then there isn’t much anyone can do at that point. He drove us all crazy for a long time until we learned to never, ever buy food with him, either going out to eat or ordering in.
The young men in this story are being provided with a valuable education and it only cost them $5.
Keep in mind, before you call them chumps, that they were letting you off the hook. As I understand it, if they hadn’t agreed to cover Girl-1 and Girl-2, it would have been up to you to somehow pry money from them or else eat the cost yourself.
After the first time failing to have money while proposing splitting a bill, my standard response to “going in on food” becomes: “Only if you actually have the money to pay your part of it”, regardless of who is asking.
Yup, had a former friend like that. Got badly burned on the promise of gas money for helping him move the very last time I helped him, only to have him put gas in HIS car and then ask ME for money. I didn’t give it to him (I didn’t have it!)
My favorite was him suggesting going to get fast food, then ordering a large amount of food only to turn and say he didn’t have any money on him. My stock answer was “Don’t look at me!”, but other friends paid for him way too often and NEVER got paid back.
I once had a roommate who bugged me, every day for at least six months, to give him a guitar lesson. One day he was so relentless that I finally gave in. When the lesson was over, he admitted that he had no money. He offered to pay me in weed.
I don’t miss that guy. At all.
And I once had a guy offer to pay me to do his homework for him. It was his final project for the semester, and unless he aced it, he would fail the course. I think I charged him a ridiculously low $25. When I delivered the final product, he said it wasn’t worth that much and he felt like he didn’t owe me a thing. Yoink! Looks like you’re going to fail, then.
He paid.
Move over, Patton Oswalt. There’s a new comedian in town–and he’s more trenchant, more insightful, and probably much taller than you’ll ever be.
Also, Patton, you might want to keep an eye on your pets.
And then failed? Please say yes.
I’m not exactly attractive enough to pull this sort of thing off very often, so maybe I am just bitter, but these women are awful.
It is one thing to ask someone to cover you for lunch, but it is a completely different thing to say you’ll chip in when you know you don’t have any money.
There have been times in my life where I was usually broke, so I have used flirting to get someone to cover me for food or drinks a few times. I, however, always have the intention of paying them back. Unfortunately, have a horrible memory for that sort of thing, so I usually don’t.
To offset that, whenever I am working at a job where I am making good money, I make an effort to treat my friends as often as I can, male and female.
I agree with the person who told OP to keep asking the women for the money back until they give it up. Although these women are a poor example because they just sound terrible, in some cases the women might be like me and have simply forgotten that they owed you.
Although the fault mostly falls on the women perpetrating these little crimes, there is also something to be said about the men who encourage this sort of behavior.
Why did those women take advantage of the men at your workplace? Because society tells them being hot means that they can.
Sorry to disappoint you. But his professor asked if he did the work himself. He admitted that he got a little help on it.
I think the professor passed him to get rid of him. The guy was a douche.
So back when Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie had their TV show, I caught a snippet. They were driving around and hungry, but had no money. So they stopped at McDonalds. Paris orders her burger and fries “we’re together”, then Nicole hems and haws around while Paris starts munching down heavily. Finally the store employees call them on it and “no we don’t have any money”. The store gets strict, so Paris starts wandering around looking for guys and giving them the batty eyes “can you help me?”. Yes, dumbass paid for their food.
Maybe about sandwiches, and use kid voices like the playground? (I know, late to the party.)
Of course not. People paid for her, rather than making her pay for the whole thing and giving her the cash. I’ve been in that situation, and we’ve worked out who only had cards and who had cash. Often there’s only one with a card, so it’s simple.
Sounds like guy 2 has ongoing private lessons that aren’t sinking in.
Oh, God, I know about this. Years back, in the early 80s, I drove a yellow cab at night in New York.
Every night, as the bars and clubs started to empty out, girls would hail taxis and pull a pouty, sad, and yet kind of flirty face, and tell me they didn’t have enough money for a cab, but they just had to get home.
You know what? New York has a subway that runs all night, every night. That’s how I got home after work. I never gave any of those parasites a ride. But I bet other drivers did. Suckers.
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This was at work, so these women presumably have jobs right? I love how women demand equal pay and yet they still want to be taken care of financially by men. Have your cake and eat it too eh?
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Would you please, for the love of all that is holy, not generalize? I have never behaved in the manner described in the OP. I consider it to be beneath my diginity to behave that way. I have minimal respect for people who behave that way. So, I would really appreciate it if you did not assume I behave that way just because I’m a woman who works in an office and expects to be paid equitably for my effort. I thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.
Sincerely,
Toucanna
dictated, not read
No, it isn’t. It makes the men angry, often makes them dislike women in general* and definitely makes them dislike her personally, and makes them (accurately) feel exploited; it’s not fun. Just look at the gorgeous woman Shakes mentioned who lost everything when she lost her looks; that shows just how much “fun” the people she was exploiting had, that when she lost her looks she was abandoned to her fate. Or for that matter, just look at this thread; not many people here seem to have found it “fun” when someone tried this on them.
*This behavior feeds some of the worst anti-woman stereotypes; that women are manipulative & greedy, look at men only as a source of profit, are helpless & parasitic, have no value but their looks etc.
Like wagons.
‘Dumbass’ probably got reimbursed by the Producer off-camera.
Love it.
You begin the treatment, while I get in talks with a producer. The screenplay should write itself.
Now we just need a name…
“Circle of Vaginas”?
Circumgina? Vaginagon?
Vagoboros.