Your friend has decided that you need help with your social life, and it exposes you to a blind date .… A friend of a friend of a friend. You, foolishly, accept. Now you’re there. This is less than an hour since you’ve been put in place. You’re sitting in a Thai restaurant and you hate Thai food. The entree has not yet been served. His idea of enlightened conversation is who is in the last four … you are not in sport. He knows the weekly schedule of television verbatim …. You have not seen a movie in months because you run marathons and volunteer at the local food bank. He said, “Volunteering is a waste of time because you can not help” the people “anyway.” You look at your watch, see that it is only 10 minutes since you last looked the last time and wonder how it is long before you can gracefully withdraw from the situation. Been there?
Now imagine an appointment with someone you met through internet dating and were in line with chatting and exchanging emails with a lot of time. First, you do not need to be established. You already know this man. You’re sitting in an Italian restaurant enjoying a delicious meal, because you know that the other favorite is Italian. The conversation you easily discuss common interests. He runs marathons and loves history, just like you. You happy to discuss the volunteer work that each of you is involved in. You look at your watch and discover that it is late … very late … Where is the time.
There is a big difference between a well-intentioned friend “setting” and choose for you a man who shares your interests and tastes, is not there? Now which would you rather have?
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