Dating Disasters·
THE FRIES DILEMMA
A couple's movie-date spirals into a fries-for-one clash after a long two-tower screening, as one refuses to share and the other pushes for generosity and clarity.
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The fight started over a single order of fries, served with beef tallow, green onions, bacon, house seasoning, and hollandaise sauce, and ended with a girlfriend accusing a man of being selfish for not giving up his dinner.
"The Lord of the Rings is doing a theatrical rerun in my city," the poster wrote, so he and his girlfriend, both 27, went out the night before to catch *Two Towers (extended edition)*. The movie ran nearly four hours. They do not live together.
Before the screening, he already had a plan. There was a restaurant next to the theater, and he told her he really wanted to go there after the film because "I really wanted to get this specific dish." The restaurant, he said, served two versions of the fries: "fries for one" or "fries for two."
That detail turned out to matter.
His girlfriend didn't realize the movie would be so long. By the time it ended around 10 p.m., she said she was exhausted and didn't want to go anymore. He said that was fine. He asked whether he could order the fries to go instead.
She said "that's fine."
Then he checked about the food itself. Did she want any? She said no. He asked again before ordering, and she said she "100% didn't want any." So he ordered the smaller portion.
When they picked it up, the smell changed her mind.
She smelled the fries and asked for a few. He let her have some. But then she pushed further and asked if they could sit outside the restaurant and eat the whole thing together.
He said no.
He pointed out that he had asked before ordering, and she had said she didn't want any. If she had wanted to eat some, he said, she should have said so earlier so he could have ordered the larger size. He also said he didn't want to share the fries for one because "it's a smaller portion."
That set off the argument.
She told him he was being selfish and refusing to share his fries. He answered that he *was* being selfish in this case, but that he also wanted the fries and had been honest about it.
The disagreement didn't end there. The next morning, they talked on a call, and she said next time he should just share it with her. He told her he's "happy to share any time but not in cases like this," and added that "she should be more careful about saying what she wants."
She got upset again.