Call me old-fashioned, but if he asked you out, he should reach for the check.
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Title: Dating Tips: Five Signs of a Great Date
Source:
Yahoo Personals
URL Source: http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/s ... ducy1vZi1hLWdyZWF0LWRhdGUEenoD
Published: Jun 30, 2008
Author: Christine Hassler and Jason Ryan Dorsey
Post Date: 2008-07-04 11:31:39 by Rotara
Keywords: None
Views: 237
Comments: 19
Perspectives from both sexes SHE SAYS: 1: You're actually excited to go out with him. 2: He spent time planning the date. 3: He picks up the bill. 4: He maintains eye contact throughout the night. 5: You both can't wait to talk to each other again 1: She actually shows up. 2: Your date laughs the whole time you're together. 3: She offers to split the bill with you. 4: When you're out on the town with your date, she sees her girlfriends and insists they come over and meet you. 5: Your first date is coming to an end, and you go to give her a sweet hug; and instead, she gives you a full-on smooch. Poster Comment: "I've never had home made fried chicken, corn on the cob and mashed potatoes with gravy that was this good. If you got any watermelon, I'm fixin to fall in love." ;-)
Online matchmaking sites, chat rooms, and even Facebook have forever changed how many couples initially meet. Regardless of how you come to know your potential love interest, there will be a time when you have that initial face-to-face date. This nerve-racking experience can cause you to second-guess your every action. Without the luxury of a dating coach secretly transmitting step-by-step instructions to you, how do you know if your first date is going well? Authors Christine Hassler and Jason Ryan Dorsey offer you five signs -- from two different perspectives -- that let you know your odds of getting a second date. Call me old-fashioned, but if he asked you out, he should reach for the check. If he doesn't, then either he's lost interest in you or he's just cheap. That said, don't order the most expensive drink in the house to go with your lobster. Be considerate. And speaking of top-shelf martini's, if it's clear to you that the only way to get through your date is to consume as many drinks as the waiter will bring, you might as well cut your losses, fake a headache, and go home where you can watch re-runs of "Sex in the City." The same is true if he starts throwing back the drinks faster than you. Call me old-fashioned, but if he asked you out, he should reach for the check.HE SAYS: If your date isn't laughing, then you're not entertaining her or she's not interested. Both are bad signs. If you're unsure whether she's laughing at you or with you, ask her on a second date. If she laughs out loud, then you know the answer.If your date isn't laughing, then you're not entertaining her or she's not interested. Both are bad signs.
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#1. To: Rotara (#0)
The key to victory...
The key to victory... "It's not the kill "The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
The key to victory... In like Flynn. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
There's still a lot to be said for feasting all night and day long. ~{:^o
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Advice: don't let her pick the restaurant, pick a decent but not too fancy one yourself. Otherwise you'll be dragged to the most expensive one in town on every first date you go on. Call me cheap, but a first date isn't worth a $1- 200 restaurant tab.
Good advice! I generally know all I need to know after a Sunday of church, fishing and a picnic of home made fried chicken (finger foods are an important factor), corn on the cob, cole slaw, mashed potatoes w/gravy and watermelon for dessert. That's just me, though. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Back in the day, I used a very plain-jane, four-door, '56 Plymouth sedan for the first few dates; if things were going 'well,' then I'd roll up in the M/B SL to head out for the evening. My personal 'is it me, or my ride?' test.
Advice: don't let her pick the restaurant, pick a decent but not too fancy one yourself. Otherwise you'll be dragged to the most expensive one in town on every first date you go on. Call me cheap, but a first date isn't worth a $1- 200 restaurant tab. And you'll wind up in a "French Restaurant" where the Chef speaks French with a "Joisy" accent.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
10 years ago I spent $25,000 on a 350hp aphrodisiac and it didn't get me one damned date.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
Just damn. Ten years ago I'd been married for twenty years, so the drama of 'dating' was a thing of the past for me.
I've been happily married to my second wife for 9 years after 25 years of marriage to the first .... with 15 years of "dating" in between (yes, I was utterly convinced after no. 1 that "happily married" was an oxymoron). The "good" wife and I recently enjoyed a wonderful couple of days in a resort town after visiting with old friends a few hours away. I picked up a sign in a gift shop in that town which now hangs in my rec room (for giggles). It has the heading "The Man's Guide to Love and Relationships". 1) Find a woman who makes you laugh. 2) Find a woman who has a job and loves housework. 3) Find a woman who is honest. 4) Find a woman who will wait on you hand and foot. 5) Find a woman who is awesome in the bedroom. 6) Most of all. It is very important that these five women NEVER meet!
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
lol The outstanding dating hint of the day! That's great. Thanks.
I just check how my fingers smell in the morning.
She's got stars in her eyes & knots on her knees now Hysterical...thanks!
I kiddingly told wifey, "don't be alarmed, Hon, you're a winner on 4 1/2 out of six". :-)
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
I read it to my wife...she didn't find items #2 and #4 terribly amusing...
My personal 'is it me, or my ride?' test. Excellent thinking! In my way of seeing things, if they can't hop on the back of a cycle for a spin then it's not going to work anyway. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I find that hysterically funny! LOL
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I ask mine which ones she flunked on and she quickly responded 2 & 4. She works but housework is decidedly not her strong suit. She'll do #6, but only when I'm deathly ill or faking it. ;-)
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Your date laughs the whole time you're together.
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
Your date laughs the whole time you're together.
it's the thrillllll of the chase..." - Deep Purple
#3. To: lodwick (#1)
Your date laughs the whole time you're together.
#4. To: Original_Intent (#2)
"It's not the kill
it's the thrillllll of the chase..." - Deep Purple
#5. To: Rotara (#0)
(Edited)
That said, don't order the most expensive drink in the house to go with your lobster. Be considerate
#6. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#5)
Advice: don't let her pick the restaurant, pick a decent but not too fancy one yourself. Otherwise you'll be dragged to the most expensive one in town on every first date you go on. Call me cheap, but a first date isn't worth a $1- 200 restaurant tab.
#7. To: Rupert_Pupkin, Rotara, O_I, first dates (#5)
#8. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#5)
That said, don't order the most expensive drink in the house to go with your lobster. Be considerate
#9. To: lodwick (#7)
My personal 'is it me, or my ride?' test.
#10. To: orangedog (#9)
10 years ago I spent $25,000 on a 350hp aphrodisiac and it didn't get me one damned date.
#11. To: lodwick (#10)
(Edited)
Ten years ago I'd been married for twenty years, so the drama of 'dating' was a thing of the past for me.
#12. To: iconoclast (#11)
6) Most of all. It is very important that these five women NEVER meet!
#13. To: Rotara (#0)
Her crazy grass shift really sways in the breeze now
#14. To: iconoclast (#11)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#15. To: who knows what evil (#14)
Hysterical...thanks!
#16. To: iconoclast (#15)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#17. To: lodwick (#7)
Back in the day, I used a very plain-jane, four-door, '56 Plymouth sedan for the first few dates; if things were going 'well,' then I'd roll up in the M/B SL to head out for the evening.
#18. To: who knows what evil (#16)
I read it to my wife..
#19. To: who knows what evil (#16)
I read it to my wife...she didn't find items #2 and #4 terribly amusing...
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