| Bad_Rich_Chic |
09-16-2003 01:05 PM |
Dating Question
IMHO:
The best bet for going out with this guy on her birthday with minimal risk of freak-out is to call him up and say "my birthday is Friday, and so I'm getting a few people together to go out for a few drinks to celebrate with me, wanna come?", as others have suggested.
If, however, what she really wants is to spend her birthday with him ALONE (assuming she has no psycho "test" or "committment" intentions), then I think the best approach would be to simply call him up and invite him to dinner, saying "it's my birthday and I just want to have a nice mellow dinner, something low key, without lots of people or a lot of too-doo." Specifying that she wants it low key & to be no big deal might still some of the "you have no friends" implications, and simultaneously avoid putting undue pressure on him about having to somehow perform.
Hinting in the hopes of encouraging the largesse of others is both psycho and rude. I also note for the record that inviting others to treat you to dinner is also rude, regardless of the reason - if she invites him, she should pay for them both, and should at least pretend to object 2 or 3 times if he offers.
While noting for the record that the ideal strategy for going out to dinner with the guy alone on her b-day from a manners P.O.V. is to ask him to dinner and only let him know that it's her birthday durring the dinner (because then (i) there is less implication she expects him to pay and (ii) it is obvious that he wasn't expected to do something snazzy because he had no knowledge), I agree that the "psycho" vibe would probably outweigh those benefits.
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