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Never Trust a Feminist in Heels
by blank at 01:25 AM on March 03, 2004
Tomorrow is a farewell lunch for a coworker and “she”, we’ll call her Casey, will be there too. She’ll be all pretty, perky, and cute as a button, but I know better. I can see right through it.
Casey’s exactly like the girl next door: very, very sexy but in an attainable way. She’s well mannered, well groomed and well dressed (in an odd way I call contemporary-country-chic). She’s always happy and creative. She’ll talk to anyone and act genuinely interested. She even took three weeks off to be a camp counselor at church camp. She’s an angel.
Hanging around her for a while got me on a sugar high, but after talking to her I got a different impression. We talked about her new house and all the work left to be done on it. She didn’t have money to hire workers to fix the big things, but she knew some guys who would do it for her. I asked if they were family or boyfriends and she said they weren’t. They want to do it because they like her. I asked if she used her girly charm to get them to do that and she just laughed. I tried to talk about women using their looks to manipulate guys, but she thought there was nothing wrong with that.
A few months later, I went to a group lunch outing with her. At the end everyone else paid for their food except for Casey and me. She went ahead of me because, you know, she’s a pretty girl. It turns out she had no cash. Ha, ha, she pulled out a credit card, swipe, swipe, denied. She laughed all innocent like. By this time the rest of our group had gone outside. She pulls out another credit card, expired. “Oh no! I don’t have a way to pay. :)” Before I knew it I had her lunch added to my bill and off we went.
I didn’t realize till later that I was probably manipulated. Who goes to lunch with no cash, no checkbook and two bad credit cards? Even worse, she didn’t ask for me to pay. I gladly offered.
Should I even be mad? If I didn’t want to give her a free lunch I didn’t have to, right? I mean, it’s perfectly fine for women to bat their eyelashes and take advantage of men’s weaknesses. A woman’s gotta get ahead any way she can. All I know is, tomorrow I’m paying for my lunch first and running out the door.
comments (7)
Eesh, you got hosed, man. I could never pull that crap, and it bugs me that girls do. But, some guys don't care, so... I don't know. Boys and girls are stupid.
by Jen at March 3, 2004 7:02 AM
Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise. It seems to me that at least on some level, you view this girl as a possibility. Why not approach her today and say, "Heh-heh. It's payback time. I'll choose the restaurant but you have to pay this time." Pick someplace like McDonald's that doesn't accept credit cards.
by anna at March 3, 2004 7:45 AM
Should read...
Church Camp Counselor? Suggest missionary.
by Joseph at March 3, 2004 11:02 AM
There's some dirty comment in my head about credit cards and slots and payback, but I just can't make it all coherent.
I hate being tired.
by Jen at March 3, 2004 12:32 PM
Well I envisioned the naked van part outside McDonalds but that's just me the old lecher.
by anna at March 3, 2004 7:11 PM
I wouldn't judge her until you accidentally are short at the next lunch and she doesn't offer to pay.
I have been a jackass before, forgotten cash, & male coworkers paid for me, but I get them back. When she says the guys fixing her house "like her" does she mean "want her"? Maybe they are nice friends. My friend's fiance helped me the last time I moved, for example.
Just one sunny girl looking out for another. Don't hate the cute girl.
by Linz at March 4, 2004 2:48 PM
I agree with Linz. Only time will tell if she's trading services for favors, using her looks to manipulate unsuspecting men, or made an honest mistake. I've paid for women of both ilks. One gold digger I had paid for a couple of times, with no compensation, got left at the register with no way to pay. She never spoke to me again but screw it, I didn't take her on to raise and wasn't deducting her from my taxes.
by Ezy at March 4, 2004 4:47 PM