>Ray Gordon, creator of the "pivot" wrote:
>
>> This in turn causes the money from men who
>> aren't wealthy to become pretty much meaningless, not to the women, who will
>> gladly take it, but to the men, because even though spending even $50.00 on
>> a dinner date might be a lot of money to them, it's not a lot of money to
>> the women compared to what the rich guy behind the scenes is feeding her in
>> order to get her attention.
>
>The above comment shows the level of cluelessness of Gordon Roy "Ray
>Gordon" Parker and how little Mr. Parker knows about the cost of
>anything. $50 is not a large amount of money to spend on dinner with
>someone unless you're a visitor to Mickey D's.
>
>Presuming you go to a place like Olive Garden or Chili's or such, which
>is NOT much of a place, the entrees are going to be about $30, drinks
>possibly another $10, plus probably $10 for the tip and probably $5 to
>park. That's $55 and doesn't even include going to a movie or anything
>else.
>
>Go to any expensive city like New York or Los Angeles and you can - at
>the minimum - triple this figure for most places.
>
>And if you're trying to impress some woman - a typical AFC stunt - going
>to an inexpensive restaurant like Chili's isn't going to get you laid,
>and she'll probably look for someone else since you haven't impressed
>her with your cheap-ass outlook.
>
>Hint for Gordo: Add a zero on the end, then you can talk about $500
>being a lot of money.
>
>Hell, I don't have much money and even I realize that $50 is not a lot
>of money to be spending on two people at any ordinary restaurant. Back
>before the turn of the Millenium I used to eat once a week at Outback
>Steakhouse. Every Sunday I'd go there and have a nice porterhouse
>steak, and I'd routinely drop about $30 to $35. For me. Alone.
>
>Which reminds me of a story.
>
>After I had gone there for about a month, the manager came by to say
>hello, because he likes to greet regular customers, and asked if
>everything was okay.
>
>A few weeks later my sister was in a really bad mood over something that
>had gone wrong, so I decided to take her out to dinner at the Outback.
>I'm not sure whether I called first or we got there and I found out, but
>basically there was about an hour wait to be seated.
>
>Well, it's kind of funny but we waited about 5 minutes when they showed
>me and my sister to a table after I distinctly remember hearing there
>was an hour wait.
>
>Do you think maybe I got special treatment because I was a regular
>customer there? Naah, everyone knows that the Ray Gordon treatment is
>the way to go with customers: call their woman a slut and insult people
>as much as possible.

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