Favorite jumped the shark
Lone_Wolf
Arizona
Met a favorite for lunch the other day. Honey is solid 8 with a cute and bright personality. We had settled into a comfortable win/win p4p relationship that's been active for about 6 months. I have taken the honey out for meals several times and we always seemed to have a great time. I've always given her 50 for the company if it is just a meal.
This time was different though. We meet at decent chain steakhouse. She starts by ordering a very expensive drink that was extravagant for lunch time. The honey then orders a second appetizer after I had already ordered one. The honey asks for a dinner menu instead of the lunch menu. She then orders a specialty dinner which would have been too much food for grown lumberjack. It was obvious she was trying to run up the bill for some reason.
While I'm watching this unfold in front of me, I'm thinking "Nooooo! Why are you fucking up this cool p4p thing we have going! Don't do it!". But it was too late. That will probably be the last dime I spend on her.
I've taken many of these honey's out for meals and this is the first time something like this has happened. Its usually a blast. I just have too many favorites that are just as fine that would not pull this BS to put up with this crap.
Have you ever had a favorite sacrifice a lucrative win/win long term p4p relationship due to very shortsighted greed like this?
This time was different though. We meet at decent chain steakhouse. She starts by ordering a very expensive drink that was extravagant for lunch time. The honey then orders a second appetizer after I had already ordered one. The honey asks for a dinner menu instead of the lunch menu. She then orders a specialty dinner which would have been too much food for grown lumberjack. It was obvious she was trying to run up the bill for some reason.
While I'm watching this unfold in front of me, I'm thinking "Nooooo! Why are you fucking up this cool p4p thing we have going! Don't do it!". But it was too late. That will probably be the last dime I spend on her.
I've taken many of these honey's out for meals and this is the first time something like this has happened. Its usually a blast. I just have too many favorites that are just as fine that would not pull this BS to put up with this crap.
Have you ever had a favorite sacrifice a lucrative win/win long term p4p relationship due to very shortsighted greed like this?
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I'm going to channel my inner Subraman here but you're tactical mistake was letting her order for herself in the first place or allowing her to continue to do so once it was clear she was escalating her passive aggressiveness.
I'm sort of a liberal chap. I have friends who are self identified feminists, I go to LGBT chapter meetings and sometimes PRIDE rallies. So I am around some liberal women. And when it comes to dating, all of them want to be put into a box and given firm boundaries. I think your girl does too. Or maybe she needs to be sent packing if that's not your thing.
That seems like a lot of effort -- too much -- civilian level effort-- for a p4p relationship.
Or she's had it w/ you and wanted to stick it to you on the way out.
I had an SB once who I only saw a couple of times. She was a knockout and looked gorgeous in a dress. At dinner she ordered a huge entree and an appetizer and polished it off all by herself. I thought, "how can she eat like that and still stay skinny?" 2nd time together, she orders two entrees and I'm like wtf, but don't say anything. Later on, we get naked for the first time and it all made sense. She was thin all over, but had a big potbelly that she hid under her dress. Very disappointing. That was the last time I saw her.
I have no concerns about what is ordered or the cost as long as it in the realm of normalcy. In this case, she barely finished half what she ordered.
It takes a decent amount of time and effort to establish a comfortable win/win p4p relationship. It is disapointing to see one flushed away over something so trivial. I may give her another chance but probably not.
The input about control was interesting and this did reek of some civiie game playing which should not have come into play here. I'm paying to be entertained so have no desire to engage in that BS.
Turns out she wanted to take some home for her son, so I told her to just order something for him. She did, and then finished hers. :)