Oh, the audacity
THERE’S a heated discussion on social media, involving a guy who asked if he was wrong for leaving a date, where the woman brought along several of her friends, and expected him to pay for them all. He settled his bill and hers, and left the others to fend for themselves, much to the chagrin of his date. He marvelled at their audacity, and the responses from other men added to the avalanche of stories involving women who were just too presumptuous for their own good.
And so we asked other men, what’s the most unbelievable experience you’ve had with a woman who was just bold with her audacity?
Marlon, 30:
We’d just moved in together, like literally just weeks after she moved into my place, she wanted to bring her sister up from the country to use the spare bedroom, while she went to college. When I told her that the bedroom was my office (I work from home), and furthermore, that it was too soon into this next stage of our relationship to introduce another person into the living space, she said I didn’t have her best interests at heart. I was the only one working at the time, so I thought she was being very unfair, to expect me to take on the burden, without even any discussion about rent or help with bills either.
Nathan, 34:
My ex-girl asked me to bring food to her house as it was Friday and she was stressed from working all day. I asked her what she wanted, she said to surprise her. So I stopped by this place and got jerk chicken and pork, soup and some drinks. When I got there she asked me who I expected to eat out of foil paper, and asked if I ever saw her eating out of styrofoam boxes before. She said she wanted Indian food, as if I could read her mind, and insisted that I go back to Kingston to purchase what she wanted. She lived in Old Harbour, by the way. I just left like I was going for the food, and erased her from my life.
Adrian, 44:
I started seeing this woman with two kids. She was a single mother, but was in a good job and was independent. We had been going out for under a year when her youngest child’s birthday came up. She asked me what I was contributing towards the party, and I hesitated, because why would I contribute, you know, and the kid had a father? Anyway, I said I could probably ask my company for a case of juice and she smirked and said she expected me to pay half, as their stepfather. I just laughed, because for an independent woman, she was certainly more beggy-beggy than I thought, and I don’t know how I became a stepfather, with responsibilities, after just a few months.
Warren, 50:
She put me down as her reference for this furniture store, where she was crediting a washer and dryer. I was OK with it, as I thought it meant that I just had to verify that I knew her. Three months later, I got a call from the company, as they couldn’t find her, and she hadn’t paid her instalments. I gave them another number for her, and about 10 minutes later she called me, furious. She said I shouldn’t have put her in the situation to be embarrassed, and I didn’t even offer to pay the instalment, knowing that she had other bills. She said she had washed my clothes in the washer, and dried them in the dryer so they were nice and soft, and basically demanded that I split the cost. I paid that month, just because she had indeed done some laundry for me, but after that I just stopped talking to her, and the last time the creditors called, I told them not to call my phone again as she was dead to me.
Shamari, 25:
We were returning from a movie date when she asked if we could stop for some chicken, as she had been craving it. I said cool, and we went in the drive thru. She ordered three meals, and didn’t even ask if I wanted anything (I had paid for the movies so I thought it was the least she could do). Well what do you know, when we got to the cashier we spent about two minutes with her looking at me, and me looking at her, and the cashier looking at us annoyed, and the cars behind us honking. Finally she asked if I wasn’t going to pay for the “likkle bit of chicken”, and when I said no, she said she had no cash, screwed up her face, and folded her arms. I finally paid, and she got free meals for her and her generation. The worse thing is, after all that, she blocked me as soon as I dropped her home.
