The Young Turks

It's true, that between-the-leg-cave might as well be full of gold (sorry, couldn't resist the crude analogy).  But it's important to point out *attractive* women have far more of this superficial power.

 Unnactractive women are mostly screwed in this regard.  Sure, they have some power too, but not nearly as much.

The great (superficial) equalizer for men is money.  You can be short and fat (normally a kiss of death in the dating game) but an equally fat paycheck can make up for it.  Of course, unlike the attractive woman who was  born with good genes, most of the rich guys have to *work* for the money (granted, there's some environmental bias, i.e. rich parents, good schooling, etc, they may well have benefited from, but still, it's not as easy as just "looking good").

PS---I'm not making any value judgements here, just observations.  Non-superficial factors (intelligence, humor, etc) belong in another discussion and I'm completely aware and in favor of them. 

PPS---I never once in my entire single life bought a girl a drink unless she was a friend or I was on a date with her.  It had nothing to do with being cheap and everything to do with knowing that 9 times out of 10 it makes the girl less interested in you.  More often than not she'll just view you as a giant dollar sign.
 

Preposterous proposal for her to try to do that with an equally preposterous outcome. She's a con-artist.

She should be on one of those shows where you do something really annoying or obnoxious or socially odd. They time the people they play the tricks on and if you don’t get pissed off after like 10 minutes, they give you 100 dollars.

This is why I think it worked. Most guys would run two scenarios through their heads

1) She just wants the shoes and wants me to buy them for her and is willing to ask an OUTRAGIOUS question to get them. I bet most people don't even encounter such a thing in their entire life.

2) She's hitting on you and not actually expecting you to buy the shoes in the sense that she's just like flirting or whatever throwing it out there as a joke with some sort of semi-serious innuendo that she doesn't expect to actually work. Then the guy really likes her and has ruled out scenario one, so he just figures surprise her and go ahead and do that. surprise- this will get me a date. NOPE.

Too much free time on your hands?

FUCK THE SHOES!!!!!!!! and anybody who thinks this is more important than watching Jon Stuart or defacing your asshole congressman for abandoning his oath to protect the US CONSTITUTION and PROSECUTE EVIL DOERS!!!!!!

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