Addendum:
I found a web site that gives the exchange rate for US$ to NLG$ as US$1 =
NLG$2.4.
So, our US $60 saturday date would come out at NLG $144, and that's
without booze. It sounds like dating is more expensive in the US,
assuming our choice of restaurants is roughly equivalent. (Our meal did
include appetizer and soup, incidentally.)
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
>
> Well, drinking tends to inflate the cost of any outing pretty quickly.
> Let's see if I can come up with a good comparison.
>
> Saturday night Keisha and I went to a good restaurant and a movie.
> (Honest!) We dressed nicely, went downtown, and ate sushi and tempura at
> a popular Japanese restaurant. We drank tea, so there was no alchohol on
> the bill. We then took a break from the date to go house-sit some cats of
> some friends who were out of town, and afterwards we saw a movie (the
> restored version of Monty Python's Holy Grail).
>
> In US dollars dinner for two was about $45 and the movie was $15. So, we
> spent a total of $60. If we had each had one drink, the total would have
> been $10-15 dollars more, probably.
>
> Then Sunday night (it was a partyin' kind of weekend) we went to a music
> club downtown and saw a performance by Guy Forsyth (my hero) and his band.
> Admission is cheaper than usual on Sunday, so cover charges were only $14
> for the two of us, and we spend about $15 on drinks and tips (Shiner Bock
> was on sale for $2/pint). We were in the club from 8:30 pm to 1:15 am
> roughly, so that's a lot of fun for a measly $30.
>
> Now, if only I could pay someone to make my hangover go away (I did
> all the drinking--Keisha just ogled Guy's tatoo)....
>
> Marvin Long
> Austin, Texas
>
> "The ego that sees a 'thou' is fundamentally different from an ego that
> sees an 'it.'" -- Joseph Campbell
>
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
My hero is Guy Forsyth! www.guyforsyth.com
"The ego that sees a 'thou' is fundamentally different from an ego that
sees an 'it.'" -- Joseph Campbell
