Jana Hocking: Why you should never split the bill on a date

The single woman has revealed the reason she avoided paying for her drinks on a date – but is she in the right?

To split or not to split the bill, that is the question.

It’s a conundrum that’s plagued singles for centuries (OK, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration), but dating pro Jana Hocking has shared her stance on when it’s fine to let the other person pick up the bill.

On this week’s episode of news.com.au podcastKind Sorta Dating host Jana explains how she went on a second date with a guy last week that swiftly went south.

Jana told guest Colin Fassnidge the date had seemed “nervous” during their first meet-up so she decided to give him a second chance.

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Jana Hocking has revealed why she didn’t offer to pay on a second date. Picture: Instagram.

But she vetoed a third date after the man revealed he had been “arrested a few times” and decided to regale her with stories of each incident.

“We are definitely not going on a third date, so when he offered to pay the bill I said yes because he had really wasted my time,” she said.

Jana said she usually made the “the polite oh no no, I’ll go halves” comment when it came to paying for a date but in this case had no intention of getting out her wallet.

“I think I am in the right with that one,” she said. “I made him pay for that date, well I didn’t make him pay, he offered and I didn’t say no.”

Jana said she didn’t want to pay on the date as the man had ‘wasted my time’. Picture: Instagram

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Colin said he had someone pay for him on a date because they “wanted to” and it was to “prove some point”.

Jana is firmly pro men paying on the first date, previously explaining that “if they’ve gone tight on a bill, I am instantly turned off”.

“I went out with a bloke and was chuffed when he made a big deal about paying the bill,” she wrote. “It was assertive and manly, and kind of a turn on. It also said in no uncertain terms that he enjoyed the date and was willing to invest.”

But she said it was acceptable for couples to split if they didn’t see the date going any further and “neither side really wants to invest any further”.

Jana Hocking is a podcaster and collector of kind-of-boyfriends | @jana_hocking