<p>Buy her a coffee randomly? pfft...yah ok. Supplication at its worst. I don't even pay for the girl on the 1st date, I make sure the bill is split. </p>
<p>(Nice guys finish last - guys, never take girl advice from girls ;-), its usually skewed )</p>
<p>and tallkell, you should know that action speaks louder than words. just club the girl, take her back to your place and she'll learn to love you</p>
<p>Not only will it come across as weird, you might have spent that $5 for now reason since she might have something to do. It also shows that she can control you without doing anything. Typical wussy power!</p>
<p>Don't pay for a girl unless both of you are earning all of your own money and are financially independent. I find it pretentious and childish for a young man to pay for a young woman if both of them are just spending their parents' money anyway.
And a woman should pay for her man half the time. Chivalry for the sake of chivalry is sexist. A man should not pay for a woman just because she is the woman. A man should pay (or hold the door, etc.) because it's the courteous thing to do to a fellow human being; a woman should do the same.</p>
<p>If you want to see if a girl is worth it, say this on a date.</p>
<p>"Don't worry about the check toots, this is a job for men, like everything else remotely hard in life!"</p>
<p>If she lets you pay for it, she's either a gold digger or someone who is okay with being walked all over and is most likely one of those passive aggressive crazies (worst). If she gets violently offended and becomes scary she is one of those Valerie Solanas (crazy biatch that shot Andy Warhol and wrote the SCUM Manifesto, essentially a manhater's bible) and will probably cut off your balls (figuratively and/or literally) sometime in the relationship. Now if she laughs and offers to split or even better pay for everything she has a sense of humour and is worth the second date.</p>
<p>I don't know. The gesture is well-meaning, of course, and I wouldn't hold it against someone, but it's better to be realistic and up-front. Don't act childishly and just go through the motions of what financially independent adults would do. Same goes for girls--act your age.</p>