I've gone out with quite a few different women in their 30s and 40s this year, and something that has struck me as pretty odd is that about half of them have voluntarily, unwittingly (I think), told me they are utterly terrible with money. Case in point, I recently went out with a woman who is 41 who needed me to pick her up because her car is having issues. No big deal I thought, it happens, but then she immediately goes on to say she hopes her son's friend can fix it for her as a favor because the shop estimate was $1000 and she "definitely doesn't have that!". Like wtf? How big of a dufus do you have to be to be 40+ years old and not even have $1000? This is not an isolated incident either. Seems like about half the women I've gone out with give some similar story or talk about money being tight, not being able to afford XYZ until their next payday, etc. I had more than $1000 in my savings account as a 5th grader with a paper route. How on Earth is anyone so terrible at life and money management that they can't even save $1000 in 20 years of adulthood? Seems almost hard to believe.