I was at home on Saturday making music, which I’d set the day aside to do, and I was really in the zone when my girlfriend texted me. She was supposed to buy a car that day with her folks but they bailed, and she asked if I’d come keep her company. 

If I hadn’t been doing anything I’d be down, but I was really making some good progress creatively and, honestly, the idea of schlepping around a used car lot instead just sounded awful to me. But she also said she was feeling lonely. I was starving and particularly broke at the moment, so I thought about it a bit and said, I’ll come with you to get the car if you buy me dinner tonight. She happily agreed.

Background: She recently left her job but has a lot of money saved up, and when she is working she makes a good amount more than me. I live paycheck to paycheck basically but I’m not in financial trouble or anything. When we eat out normally, we alternate paying for meals.

Everything went fine - she wasn’t upset or anything, and we went to a great burger joint after she got quoted for the car (she didn’t buy it yet because they wouldn’t negotiate, but we later learned that this is standard for used cars). But I got started thinking afterwards, was it a dick move to ask her my girlfriend to buy me dinner?? 

