Woman’s Tinder Date Demanded Refund Of £3.50 He Spent On Coffee

The Debrief: We don’t need to ask whether this guy was being stingy or fair. Bit forward after only just meeting no? Crouch was uncomfortable with this idea, especially given that they had just met, so she declined.

Lauren originally suggested they meet at a pub but as he wasn’t drinking, they agreed on coffee.

“Him: “What would you say if I offered to cook you dinner?”

“Him: “I only ask because I’ve got an Ocado delivery coming tonight”.

She declined saying she couldn’t go back to the house of someone who she just met and he excused himself saying he needed to be home for the delivery of dinner ingredients.

“Him: “OK well I’d better go”.

Oh anonymous-man-on-a-date-with-Lauren-Crouch, what a slightly freakish way to leave a romantic encounter!

He then texted her, asking if she wanted to meet him again. That’s probably what I would have done if I had been in Crouch’s place, though I do not fault her at all for letting the guy pay for her coffee since he offered.

In a series of messages posted on social media, she said: “It’s a shame you consider a date to be a waste when it doesn’t end on your terms”.

Lauren somewhat ironically posted her experience on her blog called No Bad Dates, Just Good Stories.

The scorned date then followed up by texting her his banking details asking her to pay him back for his coffee as he didn’t like “wasting” money.

But the cheapskate date replied with an abrupt: “I’d like to decide myself what to do with my money” and proceeded to give Lauren his bank account details for the £3.50 refund. You don’t retract that just because they don’t facny you. Most of us will go on a lot of first dates, with only a percentage getting a second or a third, let alone the paltry few with whom we click well enough for months or years of keeping company.

At work? With your gran?

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