this normally applies in the earliest stages when you're trying to win the other person's affection, but can also apply when you're over the honeymoon period and are just taking your thinly-veiled out in the hope you can get them pished enough to make the beast with two backs in the taxi home

reckon the most i've dropped is about £250-£300, nice lunch out, drinking all day, then taxi home

fully expecting lots of "i've never been on a date m8" responses, peppered with a few overly defensive posts about how cheap entry to the oxo tower is

now you go....