A single woman has been embroiled in a feud with her date after she used gift cards to pay for their dinner.
The 21-year-old woman and her 22-year-old date Eve* enjoyed steaks at a “very casual” restaurant over the weekend after they met on a dating app.
“There’s nowhere super fancy here because it’s a small town, but there is a place that serves steak, so I took her there,” she said in a Reddit thread.
“I told her to order whatever, and I’d pay for it. Drinks, food, appetisers, anything.”
The date was going well — until the bill came.
“I grabbed some gift cards I got from my job … for being a top performer. They were not gifts from any family or friend,” the woman said.
“I’d been saving them for over a year for whenever I’d have an excuse to eat at this steak place, so they covered the entire meal.”
However, the vibe quickly changed when Eve took particular issue with her for using gift cards to pay their bill.
“Eve was sort of quiet when I gave the gift cards to the waitress,” the woman said.
“I asked her if everything was okay. She kind of looked at me funny and asked if I only chose this place because I had gift cards.
“I told her the truth that no, I picked it because she said she likes steak, and that the gift cards were a nice bonus.”
Eve then expressed how she really felt about the payment.
“She told me it was weird to pay with gift cards instead of credit or debit on a date,” she said.
“Like it was devaluing her, or something, cause she ‘wasn’t worth my actual money’.
“I’m not broke, but I’m not rich. I could’ve afforded the dinner on my own. I clarified that when she asked.”
‘No big deal’
The woman said she didn’t see the “big deal” — but Eve didn’t seem to appreciate her “kind gesture” of offering to cover the bill.
“She got a free meal, I technically got a free meal too,” she said.
“Everything else about the date was fine… I’m now worried I look cheap. I’m careful with my money, but I don’t think I’m cheap.
“Also it was not a fancy establishment, (it was) a very casual place that serves really good steaks in our town.
“There aren’t any fancy places around here and she wasn’t expecting anything lavish.”
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