Group therapy in a blog.
MORAL QUANDARY
Earlier this week, I posted that story about the guy who invoiced his date for her half of the dinner that they had on their date.
Even if the story and the names are true, I’m not going to conribute to the rumor mill. If the guy were a serial rapist, it might be a public service to make others aware of his nature, but this (his sending an invoice) is a poor choice that might have been meant as a joke…
Who among us has not been misconstrued in a letter or email we sent, where tone was not apparent, and a joke went unabsorbed? I know I’ve been a victim of this before, and therefore live in a glass house as far as this is concerned. Far be it from me to throw the first name.
I think it’s hillarious.
-E. A. Farnsworth
Hilarious because you think it is a joke or hilarious because you think that this woman is finally getting her just deserts? (That’s not a mispelling – I know those bug you, Esther -. Apparently that is how you spell it.)
Hillarious because I studied the law of contracts.
OK, now this is just weird.
So I am getting out of the shower this morning, and out of friggin NOWHERE I think of a story I read in the National Enquirer maybe 20 years ago, in which some dude asked a girl out, and she didn’t show up, and he SUED her for “breach of oral contract”. “Apparently,” his lawyer said, “He doesn’t take being stood up sitting down!” BTW, why the HELL would any lawyer let him sue for that?
Now, I didn’t pay it much mind, cause even as a pre-teen I didn’t put stock in the N.E., but I know that sometimes their stories are true.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I hit your blog and found a very similar story just a few hours after remembering mine! Am I psychic!!??
As far as I am concerned, the guy in the Enquirer and this invoicing dude have the same problem. They’ll say it’s about the money, or their time, but in reality they are feeling self-pity and want to “punish” these girls for hurting them, and/or they want an “explanation” of what it is they keep doing wrong with the opposite sex.
I would refer all of the above to my blog for immediate remedial training ;-).
Yours
Steverino
Steverino,
The story you speak of was in my contracts casebook so it seems that the N.E. doesn’t make up everything they print. The story in question, however, is far funnier.
I can empathize with the guy. I think most men can. We try to be gentlemen and get shit on in the process. Lord knows how much I’ve been let down by unappreciative skanks who don’t have the common courtesy to follow up. Maybe she could have had a little bit of consideration and give the guy a break, and she wouldn’t get something like that in the mail.
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hey, Anonymous…
I always offer to pay for myself. Often, I do pay for myself. I don’t go with the expectation of getting a free meal on a date.
And if I had a NICKEL for every guy that said he was going to call and didn’t…every guy who said, “Wanna do something next week?” and didn’t call…every guy who disappeared in the middle of an email conversation…well, I’d be rich.
And yet, I don’t hold the next guy I meet responsible for all those jerks. Clean slate, if you will.
I told a friend about this and she was wondering: but, if the dinner was not a midpoint location, and one person had to pay more than the other in transportation cost, then shouldn’t that differential be deducted from that person’s share and added onto that of the other party? yeah, yeah, I know they always have the free option – walking – but it follows w/the retarded logic of the lawyer (who, btw, should’ve added his fee to the invoice b/c i’m sure he spent several hours on it, instead of doing his assigned work w/real billable hours!)
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