Eating at Jacque's

From Jesse Taylor at Pandagon, because it happens, y'know?

If you said, “Put it as close to the man as possible, and then when returning the bank card with the name ‘Girly Von Girlerson, Professional Female’, again placing it as close to the man as possible,” then you could have a job as a server waiting for you at any number of fine chain restaurants. Double bonus if the female diner actually hands you the payment, and you still return it to the male, like it was some sort of patronizing social experiment designed to make the woman feel like she could actually pay for things - next, she’s going to go home and wonder what it would be like if she could pay Social Security taxes, that ambitious little scamp.

The correct answer, by the way, is putting the goddamn check about halfway between the two people in a neutral spot.

I’ve stopped going to restaurants where this is a recurring theme, in no small part because it serves as an awkward and offputting end to any meal (to be fair, a much larger rationale is that the correlation of this behavior to mediocre or overpriced food is also very high).