Trumped

There is this guy Jeb. He is a great guy. He takes a friend, Ruth, out to lunch. It is a mutual lunch date but he wants to be a gentleman because it is the first time that Jeb and Ruth have ever hung out as just the two of them. He picks Ruth up in his El Camino and they go to the local pub n grub for a meal. They go there because he heard great things about their food and Ruth had never been there before. All goes well although Jeb gets nervous but he has been known to be like that. Jeb felt that his conversation, upon reflection, may have been a little dry but that wasn't the biggest problem. The bill for the meal comes toward the end of the dining experience. Ruth picks the bill up and says I got this. Totally shocked Jeb internally freaks out. He had wanted to pick up her meal as it was the gentleman thing to do. He then spoke up, he said he had planned on getting the meal. Ruth said that Jeb could get it the next time and she put the money out and the waitress took the money. He felt like he just got trumped. The biggest ace up his sleeve, as he thought, was to get the bill and tip well. This was unable to happen because Ruth beat Jeb to the punch. His thunder was stolen and he wonders did he handle the lunch date in the right way.

Should he have been more forceful and made the waitress take his payment and not Ruth's? Do you think Jeb should be upset that Ruth bought his lunch because his intentions were to treat her the whole time? Would Ruth think differently of him for his lack of payment?