Date & Dish

Back in ancient times, before the advent of computers and the online dating age with online pictures, there was a method people met that is probably less common than in it is today: the sometimes positive, more often scary Blind Date. Your friend says they have someone of the opposite (or in certain cases same) sex, they’d like you to meet and ask you if you are interested in meeting with someone you’ve never met before whose picture you’ve never seen.

From friends experiences, The Blind Date story is usually told as one awful experience from start to finish with two people completely unattracted to each other’s minds or bodies. As a result, in most cases, when friends ask me the blind date question, I cringe for a second, followed by a brushing off of, “Well, maybe we could all hang out sometime for something low key”. The idea of this is to avoid sitting down across the table from someone I have no attraction and to avoid offending with my disinterest my friend who with all good intentions set up the blind date.

Admittedly, girls on the whole who ask me if I would be OK with being set up do a worse job. See, the instant I am asked whether I would like to be set up, the thought that pops into my head is “Is she hot?” However, the recommendation usually comes that she is “really really nice”. Of course, I would never overtly ask that question to my friend, since it would invite a “Ooooooh, Men are JERKS!” response, but online, doesn’t everyone really look at the picture first too? The sardonic side of me has a theory that women see their friends as nice and really great, so why wouldn’t someone else find them wonderful as a companion? Unfortunately, the logic doesn’t always or even often follow.
In a first, a girlfriend of mine asked me if I would be open to being set up, and two of the first things out of her mouth were, “You too would make a very attractive couple” and “You might have to fend off a lot of the guys she’s been seeing.” Of course, she also added many similar interests we shared. I’m not *that* shallow.

I’m not sure whether we will eventually meet or not or whether if we do meet it will be though a blind date, but definitely, this friend knows how to work it to make me interested in the feared Blind Date. I would certainly be interested.