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Weird question, but how did he go about offering to buy? Offering to buy someone lunch can be a little awkward, especially in situations where it isn't usually

• DanielBMarkham 17y ago
  He never ever offered to buy. Just whenever the check came, he completely insisted on paying the whole thing. He wouldn't have it any other way. So it's not like he was going around asking to buy people lunch. We just had lunch and did stuff like anybody would. You know, this is going to make me sound awful, but at the time I kind of thought of it as flaw -- it was even a bit insulting at times. He just wouldn't let me pay for anything. But he was that way with everybody. It didn't stand out so much that I noticed it right away -- hell, it took me four years to figure it out. Just looking back, I don't think I ever paid for anything when we went out. And he did that to everybody. Four of us would go out for lunch, and there he was, insisting on picking up the check. At the time it was almost stressful, because I knew when the check come we would always argue over paying it. But it looks like long-term, he had a much more successful happiness strategy than my counting pennies!