Posted By: olivialeon
Last week I had a 12pm, 1 hr appt with a 80 something year old gentleman. In the bedroom I heard his alarm watch go off and asked what that noise was. He said nothing. I then looked at the clock, it was 12:57pm. He lied.
He didn't want me to stop so I continued 10 more min and then told him I parked my car on metered parking and needed to get it by 1:20pm so we needed to get going. It was 1:10pm. He said "go pay the meter, I'll wait for you here so we can finish". He told me to do this 10 min past his scheduled hour. To get to the meter and back would take approx 10 min. I'm thinking WTF?
I then told him I scheduled lunch plans with a girlfriend immediately following our 1 hr date. He saw I was not going to take his demands, he was not happy and then asked to take a shower. He finished his shower at 1:20pm and we were out the door a few minutes after that - 20 minutes past his scheduled hour, only because I pushed or he would have still been there.
Email from him.....
You notified me when we had reached the 1-hr mark. Had I left then, I would have been with you for just an hour. My shower extended the time by 10 minutes. Had I taken my shower to fit within the hour, and considering the conversation time at the beginning, I would have had, at best, 40 minutes of playtime. I consider this unsatisfactory.
Sign up for an hour, and you may get little more than 30 minutes of playtime. That in effect doubles the rate. Sign up for 90 minutes, and you may be restricted to an hour. You say that, if you are enjoying yourself and have nothing scheduled, you are willing to go overtime. However, in my case that possibility was precluded (in your mind, at least) by the meter and your lunch date. Those arrangements converted you into a “clock watcher”, which is a pejorative term among hobbyists.
Don’t get me wrong. You are perfectly entitled to do what you did. However, in my considerable hobbying experience, I cannot remember being with another clock watcher.
Back to me...
My problem with him is that he gave me a demand to go pay the meter and expected the extra time.
There have been many times during my dates where we're enjoying one anther's company with nice wine, yummy appetizers and I allow the date to go over the scheduled time - never because it's expected. The way I see it is, it's my extra time to give not anyones to take or demand of me.
From his review and his correspondence, he thinks my line of thinking is totally wrong.