Tuesday, 04 August 2009

  • No Such Thing As A Free Drink

    Miss Rhino

    Did you guys hear about the three-for-the-price-of-one sale this weekend? Yes you heard me. Miss Rhino AND Michelle AND Shannon for the low, low price of $300.

    Yes, that's right. We were bought and sold for $300 on Friday night. But no, we are not ladies of the evening. Even though that's the way it sounds. And that's also the way it felt for me and my two friends this weekend.

    We didn't do anything different. Sitting casually at the bar. Chatting, laughing, making inappropriate and overly-long exclamations of excitement about a practical stranger's love life. All was right at that bar in Belmar, NJ. We began talking to the men that had somehow snuck up on us and were lurking in our personal space waiting for us to give them some attention. Three of them, three of us. And so it began...

    They worked for Red Bull. A boss and his two employees. Three became two within minutes when I looked over my shoulder and one of them had barfed into a plastic cup. See ya later buddy. Two became one even quicker when a fight over monthly sales found the employee telling his boss that he was over-qualified for the job and should be higher-ranked than him. Chances are good that he was fired on Monday.

    So there we were hanging out with this strange, but generous Red Bull man. He bought us drink after drink and round of shots after round of shots. We weren't asking for all of those Red Bull-inspired shot combinations. You did it to yourself, kind sir. I'm not sure what he was expecting. But at the end of the night when we were saying our goodbyes, he responded:

    "Seriously? I just spent $300 on you girls and that's all I get?"

    Since when does money spent = guaranteed foursome? We just thought he was trying to prove his baller Red Bull status. Red Bull may give you wings buddy, but our wings were not flapping back to your place for an all-night orgy bender. I'll stick to decaf in that case.

    I guess in this economy nothing is free anymore. Accepting free drinks from a kind man at a bar automatically makes you a prostitute. Were we wrong to let him treat us to drinks? Or maybe just naive. What would you have done in this situation?

Comments (38)

  • MissPixieGlitter@xanga

    you weren't wrong, just naive.

    i dislike having drinks bought for me. the buyer is usually interested in something, and it makes me feel like he is trying to buy my time and company (and probably hoping, like your fellow, to buy something more). that's pretty whore-like.

    i'll hang out if i like your company, and i will be buying my own drinks.

  • RunningMan42@xanga

    After the first drink you say "thank you, that was very nice, but if you keep buying us drinks you ain't getting any".  Naive, yes, if strange men are buying you drinks all night they want a piece.

  • pnrj@xanga

    You did the right thing. Accepting a gift does not obligate you to pay back in sex. You should make it clear that you're not interested in sex---it's not fair to lead people on---but the idea that romance should be exchanged quid pro quo for money is precisely what troubles us about prostitution.

  • eatdrinkandbemaryy@xanga
  • Noelleish@xanga

    Ha.  Buddy deserved that ending.
    but i agree - I don't let anyone buy me drinks - and therefore, I just stay out of all possible situations where they think I owe them something.  Which is SO not the case (you don't owe buddy anything!), but I like avoiding awkward situations.

  • Lunalumi@xanga

    One of my female friends always accepts drinks, i tend to not accept unless i know the guy.
    I've had more then once encounters where a guy bought me a drink without me asking for anything and then got mad or very annoying expecting kissing or me following him to another bar/house...

    The majority (not all!) of men lately i meet when going out are real jerks tbh. =(

  • anonymous

    It's one thing to allow someone to buy you one or two drinks, but when you rack up a $300 bill, well, then, you're just a bitch.


    Although you're right in that buying you drinks does not necessitate sex, I mean, use your common sense. He's buying you a shitload of drinks for what? To simply bask in your glory and admire you from a distance? No, of course not. He's obviously going to want something.
    So instead of accepting the drinks, after the first few times (like many other people have said already), you shouldn't have led him on. You should've made it clear that he was free to buy more drinks for you, but that he wasn't going to get anything later.
    So while he may be a perv, you're a complete bitch.
    Why do the majority of the Miss _____ seem like shallow and arrogant airheads?
  • misslionheart@xanga

    He's the idiot that bought you drinks. Lol

  • MarksBeneathTheSkin@xanga

    You didn't make him buy the drinks, no matter what he thought he was buying. Just like he can't make you go home with him.

    He made his choice, you made yours. Nothing wrong about that.

    And personally, I wouldn't sell my body for anywhere close to a measly $300, especially not when it is divided between two others. My body is priceless. Boys should just give up trying to buy sex from regular people. Stick to hookers.

  • phuck_diz_shiz@xanga

    lol that happened to me too
    some guy at the club bought me a drink - i didnt ask for it he offered
    I even said no thanks
    but he insisted so i said okay
    lol after taking the shot i just walked off

    did he seriously expect me to grind with him ? - if so he shoulda told me before hand :)

  • ViciousGrin63@xanga
  • Shopgirl0393@xanga

    Was it the recipient of the drinks or the buyer that was naive, really? After so many drinks bought with no real dramatically positive signals, he should've figured nothing was going to happen. He was either too drunk himself to reason properly, hoping to get them trashed to the point of taking advantage, or just plain idiot dumb.

  • Happiness_Reigns@xanga
  • SeiGe_Jet@xanga

    If you consume the drinks, you need to put out.

  • XxHyPeRaZnBoIxX@xanga

    Instead of buying a hooker, he thought that by racking a $300 bill worth of drinks was more efficient. Consider yourself only worth $100 while a legit hooker is worth $200 per hour. Damn u girls are cheap

  • erahslover@xanga

    @Shopgirl0393@xanga - positive signals these days means accepting the drinks and sucking them down. when a girl turns down a drink thats when you know to step off.. if a girl keeps pounding them back and engaging in conversation to rack up a $300 tab?! Thats TEXTBOOK definition of mixed signals.

    To the author : You let him get to a $300 tab and didn't think anything of it? You knew exactly what was happening and you took advantage of it(and frankly.. im not mad at you for it haha). But(and i say this in jest) Two of you should've at least took one for the team ahaha... $300 is nothing to sneeze and.. don't fake like you didnt have a clue what ol boy was trying to do. That $300 could've gotten him pretty far at a strip club.

    Swhy I don't buy women SHIT unless we're actually dating. Otherwise YOU treat ME... and I don't even drink... you could go half with me on a dub sack or an oz and I'd totally put out... or at least 3rd base and a non-fake cell number ;p

  • Nous_Apeiron@xanga

    It's amazing how incredibly naive both men and women can be.  A year or so ago I was out with a group of my friends from a nearby women's college (yes, manly me with my lumberjack look and three lovely ladies) at a local bar known for its live music.  Apparently, this pair of guys thought it tragically unbalanced for me to have three women to myself and decided to step up and fill the gap.  They bought my friends drinks for a couple of hours, expecting some kind of affection in return.  They got a very polite, "Thank you so much for the drinks." 

    One of my friends turned to me during this two-hour delusional drink-buying spree and whispered to me curiously, "Do they really think they're going to get laid for this?"  I responded that yes, they did really expect it.  This surprised and amused her, though I don't know why it would be surprising.  And I'll admit, I thought it kinda funny too.  They were even less good-looking than me, rather boring as conversationalists, and they viewed women as objects to be acquired, and that last point in particular is one that tends to really irk women who're attending a liberal women's college.  Objectively, it just wasn't going to happen for those guys.

    But somehow they, much like many other men in many other places, were too naive to understand that.  And my friends were too naive to understand that the two men were trying to get in their pants despite those odds.

    Delicious irony.

  • erahslover@xanga

    ALSO, if women think they've found a booze cow they should also take into consideration about the date rape drug. I hope you and your friends watched the bartender each and every time the next round was served.

    I mean i hate women(if youre familiar with my posts around here thats obvious), but I'd never trust a man I didn't know either. Most of us are capable of really fucked up things.

  • SexInChurch

    I think it's sick that guys think that by buying you a drink, that you are getting sex. You are more likely to get sex if you have GAME! Duh. . I'll accept a drink, but not $300 worth, I'd feel bad. 

  • C0ll33Ncorps@xanga

    Hahaha, I would have given him a fake number before I said goodbye.
    If you want to spend $100 on a woman, and you expect to get laid automatically, try the corner of 5th and Broad, not the bar.

  • Luketh@xanga

    Now that's some funny shit :D.

    If someone is buying you drinks, if you're not interested make it clear.  And if they continue to do it, it's their own fault for not picking up on your hints.

    $300 worth though, what an idiot.

  • Fluxuater@xanga

    Wow $300? That's a bit much to accept, but I guess you might not of realized how much he was spending on you at the time.

  • atmaster@xanga

    antiquated losers who think that dropping money on a girl equals something more than their company at the most deserve to keep thinking that way, and getting burned night after night.

  • LlothoftheDrow@xanga

    Any guy trying to buy you a drink is NEVER just trying to be nice. It's pretty much the unspoken rule that if you let a guy buy you a drink/ accept a drink from a dude then you're interested in him. That's why I never EVER let some guy buy me a drink. A lot of them will try to talk you into it and let you feel guilty if you tell them that you are fine buying your own but don't let that fool you. As soon as you cave, to them it's like a "score!!!" I won't even let guy friends of mine buy me drinks except for two. One of them is gay, and the other is my best friend. 

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