{"id":791,"date":"2025-08-08T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:27:10","slug":"he-asked-to-split-the-bill-but-then-he-said-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"He Asked to Split the Bill\u2026 But Then He Said THIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went on a date with a guy. He ordered the fanciest things on the menu.<br>I thought, <em>&#8220;This one is a catch.&#8221;<\/em><br>But then\u2014right when the check came\u2014he looked up and said, <em>&#8220;Should we split it?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t show how bothered I was, but inside I felt a mix of surprise and disappointment.<br><em>Really? After everything he ordered?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stayed polite, nodded, paid my half, and we said goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just <strong>minutes later<\/strong>, my phone rang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHey!\u201d he said, sounding a bit out of breath. \u201cI just noticed that you didn\u2019t eat half as much as I did. That wasn\u2019t fair. I\u2019m really sorry. I should\u2019ve paid for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was silent.<br>He continued, \u201cI wanted to see if you were kind or just expecting a free meal. And you passed the test. Would you let me take you out again\u2014properly this time?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t know what to say. In a world full of red flags, was this\u2026 a green one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went on a date with a guy. He ordered the fanciest things on the menu.I thought, &#8220;This one is a catch.&#8221;But then\u2014right when the check came\u2014he&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}