My brother Marcus insisted he\u2019d found the \u201cperfect guy\u201d for me: Andy, a pickleball player who was courteous, smart, and unattached. Skeptical but curious, I agreed to one date.<\/p>\n
Andy arrived with wildflowers, held doors, and genuinely listened during dinner. He seemed perfect\u2014attentive, kind, and without quirks. By the end of the night, I even let him drive me home, breaking my usual first-date safety rule.<\/p>\n
The next morning, my phone buzzed. It was a\u00a0PayPal request from Andy<\/strong>\u2014an itemized invoice for the previous evening: gas $4.75, car depreciation $3.50, parking $20, cleaning fee $9. Total: $37.25.<\/p>\n I laughed until I cried, then sent back $50 with a sarcastic note: \u201c$37.25 for costs + $12.75 tip for chivalry. Five stars! \u2013 Sarah.\u201d Then I blocked him.<\/p>\n Marcus confirmed the absurdity: Andy had told his pickleball friends he was creating an \u201cequitable\u201d system for dating, billing women for emotional labor and safe transport. They quickly kicked him out.<\/p>\n The story went viral when another woman shared a similar invoice on TikTok, sparking a conversation about entitled men who treat dating as a transaction. Women shared countless stories: itemized meals, rides, and even texts, showing Andy wasn\u2019t unique\u2014just the most extreme example.<\/p>\n Lesson learned: trust your gut, and never, ever date a man who invoices you for opening a car door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Date That Came With a Bill My brother Marcus insisted he\u2019d found the \u201cperfect guy\u201d for me: Andy, a pickleball player who was courteous, smart, and unattached. Skeptical but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinreports.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}