A 62-year-old friend met a 47-year-old woman at a party. She is a liberal veterinarian with huge student loans, angry at the world. He is a comparatively successful government worker, but a bit dry, dull, and beta. Obviously she is hotter.
She was difficult and "busy" on the phone. So he cajoled her with "You gotta eat sometime" and scheduled a dinner date. That's bad, but, I don't know that he had much alternative.
Over dinner, he commented on meeting famed investor Warren Buffet, and admired Buffet's enormous charity to the Gates Foundation to vaccinate and feed African children. The woman replied with nonsensical hostility "The Gates Foundation buys hormone-stimulated milk products, and that hurts poor European farmers."
This is a shit test. She obviously knows nothing about the subject. Should he smack this underachieving ignoramus down with:
"You are just silly. How much money did you give to charity last year?"
Or should he just look upon her with bemused pity:
"I told Warren he should spend the money on hookers and cocaine."
Or perhaps a middle ground:
"I don't tell Warren what to do with his money, and he doesn't tell me what to do with mine."
He really needed to display backbone here. Maybe she needs to hear:
"WTF have you ever done for society besides living off student loans and saving rich peoples kitty cats? You need to prove your worth to me."
"You are sitting in a nice restaurant complaing how somebody feeds starving children. Nice. We'll definitely split the check."
and then freezing her out. What is the right track here?
She was difficult and "busy" on the phone. So he cajoled her with "You gotta eat sometime" and scheduled a dinner date. That's bad, but, I don't know that he had much alternative.
Over dinner, he commented on meeting famed investor Warren Buffet, and admired Buffet's enormous charity to the Gates Foundation to vaccinate and feed African children. The woman replied with nonsensical hostility "The Gates Foundation buys hormone-stimulated milk products, and that hurts poor European farmers."
This is a shit test. She obviously knows nothing about the subject. Should he smack this underachieving ignoramus down with:
"You are just silly. How much money did you give to charity last year?"
Or should he just look upon her with bemused pity:
"I told Warren he should spend the money on hookers and cocaine."
Or perhaps a middle ground:
"I don't tell Warren what to do with his money, and he doesn't tell me what to do with mine."
He really needed to display backbone here. Maybe she needs to hear:
"WTF have you ever done for society besides living off student loans and saving rich peoples kitty cats? You need to prove your worth to me."
"You are sitting in a nice restaurant complaing how somebody feeds starving children. Nice. We'll definitely split the check."
and then freezing her out. What is the right track here?