Dating 101 – It’s Easy
It’s like a super speed round of hot or not. On a blind date, you decide whether or not you are physically attracted to the person from the moment you lay your eyes on them. I mean; do they actually look like their Instagram/dating profile pictures? Do you envision them fitting in with your lifestyle and vise versa? You might even question “Wow, I should have known she took every picture from some crazy aerial angle,” or “Oh yea, every pic was from the waist up, shame on me.” It’s an innate quality that we cannot fault ourselves for having, but physical chemistry is a necessity when there is nothing except two strangers in a room waiting to say hello. Next, you get the “standard” questions out of the way:
- What do you do?
- Where are you from?
- Where do you live?
- Do you know this person/restaurant….
- Are you athletic?
And you actually do ask them in that order. As tacky, typical, and blasé, as that sounds, don’t deny that you are not that person, because we cannot help the natural, slightly predictable dating beasts that we are.
The true test comes after dates two and three. You know what I’m talking about; you are now in “text familiar territory,” or TFT. You know it’s okay to text that “guy or girl,” you’ve gone out with them a few times, but you just don’t want to push your luck too far and make things awkward- because “you’re not a stage five clinger or anything.” You think, “what do I say, do I ask about the Giants game, or about getting Dim Sum on Thursday? Shit. I don’t want him to think I like, like him, I just want him to know I’m interested.”
Before you know it you are having an entire inner monologue debating about the increments of minutes in which you will allow yourself to respond to his or her text messages. The question on hand soon becomes, are you friends, “lovers”, or just horny?
