I had this brainstorm yesterday when Lucie, my girlfriend, and I went out to dinner.

I feel like this happens to a lot of people, especially females, and it shouldn’t. When I want to take her out to dinner, I want to take her out to dinner. I wish she’d order whatever she wanted regardless of internal feelings of guilt or shame about the price. So, while this idea may only suffice to satisfy a select group of men taking women out to dates, I still think it warrants sharing.

So here goes the idea:
At the restaurant you have two different kinds of menus: one with prices and one without. The date receives the one without prices so she can make an unbiased decision about what she wants to eat. Ultimately, when you go out to dinner, you want to order what sounds most savory when you read the description.
The person who pays the bill could receive the other menu, with prices, so as to make his own mind up, and get a general idea of what the bill should be at the end of the meal.

I suppose the idea could work if both people had priceless menus; my only concern there would be that the restaurant overcharge for the meals since there is no basis with which to contest the prices if there were some kind of dispute.

Just another rambling, back to work.