Who Pays For The First Coffee?

With online dating, we can no longer follow the old rules. One frequently-asked question is, who pays for the first coffee? Traditionally, men paid. However, many women now insist on paying for themselves and as a result, men are confused about who should pay. It would certainly be a day to celebrate women's rights when the roles are reversed and women have to start considering paying for men on the first date.

For now though, to make things easy, I have prepared a diagram here to outline the decision-making process of the first date regarding who pays:

However, all the rules are there to be broken - that was what I used to tell my students anyway. Let the game begin!