Besides, what guy wants to spend a first date getting interrogated over his worthiness? There are more tactful ways to find these things out.
And when she offered to drop the expenses on her employer, that probably crossed one of HIS criteria, and what guilt should he have felt when the NY Post was surely picking up the cab fare too?
My thought at that point would be: so the point of this evening was so you could get some material for your column? Your date with ME is going to be written up in your COLUMN in the morning? Bye.
Besides that, one of the bigger problems with her (and lots of women) is the expectation that some guy to make her "feel great", while she herself has no thought of what SHE could do to make a guy feel great