Thought I would jump on the bandwagon of recent posts talking about dates/dating. A few months ago I met up with a guy from a dating app to watch movie then have dinner. “Shall we get popcorn?” I said, to which he replied, “Oh I got it already while waiting for you just now,” patting his bag, so we just went Dutch on the tickets.
When we found our seats, he unzipped his bag and exclaimed “Tada!”, pulling out a pack of popcorn with NTUC PACKAGING. Oooookay that’s new, I thought to myself, while he grinned, “Smart right? So much cheaper and so much more popcorn. Value for money.” But that was not all. The next horror he pulled out of his bag was a HERBAL DRINK. “Popcorn very heaty, must drink this,” he said, not forgetting to add, “$1.50 only sia, value for money.”
At this point I just wanted to watch the movie then go home, but Mr. Value-for-Money had other ideas. About 15 min in, he whispered, “Er can you eat at the same speed as me? I notice you have eaten much more than me.” I did not take another popcorn after that.
After the movie, I faked a reason to skip dinner, but he said, “How about ice-cream? Then we can chat for a while.” I reluctantly agreed in order to be polite, then fml-i-should-have-seen-this-coming he led me to MCDONALD’S. Forcing myself to say thank you as he happily handed me the “value-for-money” 70-cents ice-cream, he said, “Welcome! You can paylah me later together with the popcorn and drink. I’ll calculate and text you the amount.”
This date was not value for money.
Netizens’ comments
- Do you know what happens when these guys become millionaires? Instead of ntuc popcorn, they sneak in ntuc smoked salmon and ntuc sashimi into the cinemaÂ
- Maybe you don’t see the value in money as much as him. Don’t blame the date. We all smuggle food la sia. Today McDonalds 1 for 1 Oreo ice-cream. Mai tu liao.
- thanks for the entertainment. Believe it or not, there are girls who don’t mind guys like that.
I personally know one and matched him with one of my single gf. She also feedback to me about the date, saying he would rather walk one extra bus-stop to save $0.25. But I don’t think he is as bad as your date lah.
To date, guy is married to another girl and my gf is still single