Yes – well – at least tall people are – or people who claim to be tall people…
Thanks and wow, you’re brave go out to Bridget for the below story contribution from which we learn that people are generally judgmental liars. Thanks for doing that leg work for us B.
Jessie –
Following my maiden speed dating voyage, I have a new-found respect for your participation in wacky dating experiments (ed note: thank you, please call my mother and report the same):
Event advertised as “Tall Speed Dating” — out of 12 dudes, guess how many were even over 6 foot? — maybe 5. You’d think people wouldn’t lie about their height in such an obvious setting, but you’d be wrong. THEN! these putzes had the nerve to ask how tall I was and jot it down on their note cards — like, seriously?? (other ed note: putzes…excellent word)
- One guy was definitely wife shopping — no small talk, just questions like, “do you see yourself staying in new york?” “how old are you?” etc.
- Three had bad BO
- Another said he worked for a “non-profit” but then described his job, which was to market/promote inventions and make MONEY, so that one didnt quite add up
- One super creep just stared at my rack the entire allotted 3 minutes
- Two were “just out of long term relationships” — like a matter of weeks just-out (dude, dont tell me that)
- One was a semi-pro pool player (do they call it billards if you’re semi-pro?)
- Only 3 of 12 lived in manhattan
- One wrote “hot lawyer” in his notes about me (umm, hi, i can see that, and when you say it out loud as you write, it’s even more obvious)
- Two international characters (german and aussie), who turned out to be the most fun to hang out with
But the icing on the cake was the pair of 40+ ladies (“cougars” dare i say?) from Long Island who were intent on getting my friend and me drunk (Lemon drop shots) and making a double love connection between us and the boys with accents.
Apparently it was mission accomplished for B and her friend, but more on that if she lets me publish it. Bottom line. People are still speed dating, yes, but you don’t want to be one of them.
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Baaahahaha.
As they say, good things come to those who wait. (And I don’t mean just waiting three minutes for the next guy to come to your table and stare at your rack.)
Baaahahaha.
As they say, good things come to those who wait. (And I don’t mean just waiting three minutes for the next guy to come to your table and stare at your rack.)
I’ve always wanted to try this, but my town is so small that I would undoubtedly get stuck at a table where the average age was 45 and the average amount of teeth per mouth was 20.
I’ve always wanted to try this, but my town is so small that I would undoubtedly get stuck at a table where the average age was 45 and the average amount of teeth per mouth was 20.
I never really understood the whole Speed dating thing. I did always want to try it out. Not like I would ever date someone from there. But think about it…
You are only with each person for 3 minutes! You could pretend to be ANYBODY! This week I think I want to be a widow who lost her husband in a freak sailing accedent. Next week? An ex crack head who swears she was abducted my aliens. The week later? The wealthy daughter of an oil tycoon.
Do you see where I am going with this?
lol…
I never really understood the whole Speed dating thing. I did always want to try it out. Not like I would ever date someone from there. But think about it…
You are only with each person for 3 minutes! You could pretend to be ANYBODY! This week I think I want to be a widow who lost her husband in a freak sailing accedent. Next week? An ex crack head who swears she was abducted my aliens. The week later? The wealthy daughter of an oil tycoon.
Do you see where I am going with this?
lol…
This sounds awesome. I’ve always wanted to speed date, but am always caught up in pesky relationships.
And let me tell you – Aussies are definitely the most fun.
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I think more and more people are giving it a go. I went on speed dating in London with my best friend and we actually had a fun interesting night (and some nice wine too!). I think it’s popular amongst more specialist events where it’s harder to find certain individuals. So I hear religion orientated speed dating like Jewish or Christian is proving quite popular in the inner city.
Sounds like fun. You could get the second one or the last and have a fun night out.