I took my 3 nephews, niece, sister-in-law, and pop to see Avengers Endgame at the theater but didn’t intend to actually “take” them in the sense of treating the whole gang but that’s what happened. My intent was just to buy everyones ticket on my account so I could get mine free via my theater rewards and my clever frugalness turned into accidental generosity when it was assumed that my buying everyones ticket meant I was *buying everyones ticket*. No big D cuz I budget out goodies for the fam on these yearly visits anyway – it was just an internally lulzy moment because of the miserly intention getting thwarted, but it made me think of similar stories where assumptions were too socially uncomfortable to correct and one half of the participants just went with it. In honor of these recollections, I decided to share them with you here starting with the recap of the one I just told you:
1- Richards Endgame
Today I fkked up by getting a free movie ticket by ordering everyones tickets on my theater rewards account, earning the freebie but then costing me $80 after my dad and sister in-law took that to mean that I was just generously paying for everyone. ???? I would have corrected them if it was in person but they just said “thanks / thats so nice” by text and then had everyone thank me at the theater so I kept my mouth shut and just died a little. — saving money is expensive sometimes.
2- The tale of the “Thankful earrings”
A podcast host / voice artist (whose identity I can’t remember so I’ll instead say that I’m concealing intentionally for privacy purposes even though it was a publicly told story) once told a story of taking her old manager out to lunch as a thank you for getting her a bunch of gigs. They popped into a jewelry store and there was a pair of earrings the manager tried on… manager asked the host’s opinion and the host being nice said “oh those look great, you should get them!”. Manager took that as a cue they were a gift for her and exclaimed “oh THANK you!…” $1,600 the host had to embarrassedly spend on earrings for giving a compliment.
3- Dress for the Jobs you wantz
Some actress smeared Steve Jobs after he died with a story of this trope happening in reverse: he took her on a date a long time ago but not so long to where he wasn’t the-Apple-guy with millions in the bank and she recounted them shopping and her hinting at a dress she wanted to get, evidently intentionally doing the move of the manager in the previous story, but to the opposite effect when Jobs said “you look great in it. You should get it.” The listener to the story was supposed to take that as what a cheapskate douche Jobs was because of his suggestion that she buy something at a store instead of him buying it for her. lol.
4- The OMG Engagement Swindle
Gavin tells a story of a friend he knew who had a long time girlfriend he was avoiding having to marry and essentially got trick-guilted into doing so in the craziest way: He spoke of his grandmothers engagement ring and his girlfriend said things to the effect of how pretty it sounded and how she would like to see it one day when he locates it in his family possessions. Well, time passes and the boyfriend does just that and brings it to her *to show her* like she asked, but upon presenting it she gets (or acted?) emotional and just started saying “yes! yes! omg yes!” as if he were proposing… too embarrassed to correct her – he went along with it and the two were married.
5- Tim Burtons Corpse Bride
Also the plot to Tim Burtons Corpse Bride. Which was only a so-so movie about a dude practicing his wedding vows in the woods, placing the ring on a branch in the ground that is actually the protruding skeletal finger of some naive chick who was murdered there on her “wedding day” (the proposal was just a scam to steal her cash) and was summoned into the land of the living and thereby a forced relationship by the proposal and the entire 2nd & most of the 3rd act is all just the protagonist being too sheepish to explain that his “proposal” was an accident.
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