When Letting Someone Pay for Dinner Didn’t Go as Planned

When my best friend Mia set me up on a blind date, I didn’t know what to expect. Eric showed up with roses and a small gift — a keychain

with my initial. At dinner he was charming, attentive, and insisted on paying the bill. I left thinking it might have been one of my best first dates.

The next morning, my phone buzzed. Expecting a sweet text, I opened it to find a professionally formatted invoice

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