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This guy and I matched on a dating app and after his multiple attempts to ask me out I finally agree. He picks a local sushi place and I suggest another place, but he insists on his choice. We get there and he goes to start ordering when he asks me should we order 3 or 4 rolls. I told him lets start with 3 and see how it goes, but he insists on 4 and let me pick one. Things were going great. The conversation was great and we didn’t stop laughing. He ended up getting 3 drinks and I had one. The bill comes and he asks me to split it. I couldn’t tell if he was joking or not so I hesitated and then said sure. He picks up the check puts his card in it and sets it down. After a little bit again he says so are we splitting this? It felt like the date was ruined. The bill was $115 and with tip it cost me about $70. All I could think is all the other places I would have rather eaten for $70. I tipped almost 20% and he tipped about 8%. I almost shut down and no longer wanted to answer his questions. I just wanted to go home. Am I overreacting? He kept pushing we get drinks after but I couldn’t get over that he would probably have me pay for those to. He wants to hang out again, but this just really bothers me. Don’t pick a nicer place not let me pick the order, order a couple of drinks and then insist we split if things are going well.

Or homecoming? How would you do it (would you go all out with a sign and balloons or flowers, or just ask verbally?) please note I don’t mean on a date. Just to prom or hoco specifically. And under what circumstances would you give up on him asking you out and just ask him out instead?

Please don’t give me tips or whatever. I just need those three questions answered.

1. Would you ask him out in the first place? [poll]
2. How would you go about it?
3. Under what circumstances would you ask him (not like, “in the evening”. I mean more like “if I’ve hinted to him I’m going and he hasn’t asked me,” or “I wanna go with him but he isn’t asking me,” etc?)