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August 29, 2005
Saying Thanks!
I’ve always been a fan of the after-date phone call. If you had a good time you should call or write to say so. It’s only polite, isn’t it? The question is – who calls? Let’s look at this for a second. First off, one of the parties is usually responsible for asking the other party out. It could be argued that the person who asks the other person out should be responsible for calling to say thanks for the privilege of their company. Mind you, it would also be appropriate for the person being asked out to thank them after for the invitation.
Now what happens if one person pays for the whole date? Does this supercede the importance of who asked whom out? What if one person picked the other person up or traveled most of the distance for the date? Should this play into who does the thanking? And then there’s the time issue – when does the acceptable statute of limitations on thanking run out?
There are no hard answers as to who does the thanking and obviously you will have to make your own decisions about an acceptable time limit would be. For me, though, if you really enjoyed your time with someone you’d want to reconnect with then as soon as possible. That would seem to suggest that you should thank or be thanked the next day. Anything later, whether you’re giving or receiving the thanks, is saying just good friends in my books.
Posted by CupidsReviews Doug at August 29, 2005 1:03 PM
