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"PinterestFacebookLast night, my sister went on a date with a guy she&amp;#39;d met through an acquaintance. My sister and her date are both successful professionals in their 30s. They went to Taco Tuesday at a nearby Mexican restaurant. A lot of places in this area host Taco Tuesdays, and everyone knows it means like, $2 tacos. It&amp;#39;s awesome.\nWhen the bill came, her date said, &amp;quot;Is this right? Can you check this?&amp;quot; She was like, Okaaaay; she felt weird looking at the check, since most people, when you&amp;#39;re their guest, are discreet about the amount. Still, she checked that the itemized bill showed exactly what she ate. When she confirmed it was right, he said, &amp;quot;Do you have the tip?&amp;quot;\nWho says that? My sister was surprised by his request&amp;#8212;and his sneaky approach&amp;#8212;but she played along. Reaching into her wallet, though, she didn&amp;#39;t have any cash on her. She was like, &amp;quot;Actually, I don&amp;#39;t.&amp;quot;\nHe replied, &amp;quot;Well, maybe you can get the next one.&amp;quot; She shrugged and said, &amp;quot;Okay.&amp;quot; Later, she asked me, &amp;quot;Is this his way of getting me to go out with him again? Does he only want to go out with me just so that he gets a return on his $4 investment?&amp;quot;\nI say he&amp;#39;s cheap. Of course it would have been fine for her to pay the tip, or get movie tickets if they had gone to the theater, but you offer to pay, you don&amp;#39;t get asked. I&amp;#39;ve always found splitting bills unromantic. Better to take him out and pay in full or cook him lasagna on a later date where you invite him.\nI think guys made up the term &amp;quot;gold digger,&amp;quot; which definitely applies to a few women, but now it&amp;#39;s overused. The term is in everyone&amp;#39;s subconscious and the result is that it makes girls feel bad at every single exchange of commerce. I mean, the tip on a $2 taco? We&amp;#39;re negotiating this now?\nMaybe, you say, it&amp;#39;s the principle of paying, it&amp;#39;s not the five bucks. But it&amp;#39;s almost more insulting at a cheap place. And they both make plenty of dough, so it&amp;#39;s ridiculous to talk tacos.\nBottom line: whoever invites the other, pays. That&amp;#39;s my new official stance. If we don&amp;#39;t do the wallet reach, it&amp;#39;s not that we think everything should be handed to us because we think we&amp;#39;re pretty, as one man once said, it&amp;#39;s because you invited us, mister. If you don&amp;#39;t want to pay because you don&amp;#39;t know us, don&amp;#39;t ask us out. You won&amp;#39;t ever know us on the first date.\nSorry. Rant. Happy Friday.\nI know we discuss money a lot&amp;#8212;but it&amp;#39;s such a source of anxiety and conflict in dating and relationships. What would you have done in her place? Do you think it was sneaky how he did it? Or do you think he was right?\nP.S. Got a funny Dating FAIL story? We want to hear it! You can email it to us by clicking here.\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\nVisit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10!\nEnter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nFollow us on Twitter!\nAdd us to your iGoogle homepage.\nPhoto: Jupiterimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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