Date: 2010-08-12, 1:04AM CDT
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Dinner and a movie. Whoever it was that decided this is a good first date had clearly never been on one. Any first date is just an excuse to talk to someone and get to know them better. Filling your mouth with food is counterproductive at best. At worst, girls are awkward and insecure about eating and guys are awkward and insecure about money, so exchanging money for food is just going to make everyone awkward and insecure.
Movies are, if anything, worse. Sitting in a dark room full of distractions with a relative stranger seated vaguely in your peripheral vision is not just a difficult situation in which to get acquainted; it's like a cruel experiment designed to prevent it.
Luckily, there are alternatives. First and foremost among these, fate has seen fit, for the good of the world and the proliferation of the species to grant us the joy and wonder that is hydroxyethane, ethyl hydrate, booze sweet booze. There's always time to take a drink while listening rather than talking. The room is usually dim, if slightly loud. Noise isn't the worst thing, since leaning close has its own secondary appeal. And, for that matter, there's a lot to be learned about a person from their drink order.
Let's abandon the pretense and get a drink. I'll buy.
Hi. I'm Dan. I'm probably free this Friday.
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