| Cheap
date complaints? Girls should wear the pants (and wallet)
By Angeline Olschewski
October 3, 2007 | Sit in The Hub near a table of girls,
and there is a strong possibility that in the course
of their conversation you will hear complaints about
the "non-existent date" for which Utah boys are notorious.
Too many guys invite girls over to watch TV, or worse,
to watch them play the latest "shoot 'em up" video game
such as Halo 3.
These girls want a proper invite. They want the words
"go out on Friday" to actually mean go out, as in, leave
the house. They complain because there's no romance
in watching their "date" mutilate the enemy while his
buddies high-five him.
But who are we kidding? What college student do you
know who has enough disposable income to ask a girl
out for anything more than ice cream? And we're not
talking Coldstone here; we're talking a Maverick gas
station soft-serve cone for 89 cents.
These days the rising costs of tuition and survival
have spawned a push for budget living books, such as
Toni Patrick's 101 Ways to Cook Ramen Noodles.
Utah consistently ranks in the highest bankruptcy rate
in the nation, but heaven forbid your date grabs a hot
'n' ready $5 pizza at Little Caesar's and takes it and
you back to the apartment to eat while he plays Madden
2008.
If the girl were in the asking position, then of course
she would be in the paying position as well. So let's
pretend that she asks her beau out for Friday night.
She plans dinner at Chili's ($35), followed by a movie
at Stadium 8 ($15), treats at the movie ($10) and then
home. Surely by the end of this $60 date, she would
understand why something as simple as dinner and a movie
is indeed a rare occurrence.
If the girl is still bent on a proper courtship, let
her wear the pants. You know the ones we're talking
about, the ones with the back pocket bulging from all
her extra dough? Let's see how many dinners and movies
it takes until she's recommending that Friday night
they watch a romantic comedy she already has on her
shelf and eat the microwave popcorn she already has
in her cupboard.
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