Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Blind Date vs Internet Date

Your acquaintance has absitively that you charge advice with your amusing activity so she sets you up with a dark date….a acquaintance of a acquaintance of a friend. You, foolishly, accept. Now there you are. It’s beneath than one hour back you were introduced. You are sitting in a Thai restaurant and you abhorrence Thai food. The entrée has not yet been served. His abstraction of aware chat is who will be in the final four…you aren’t into sports. He knows the account TV agenda verbatim….you haven’t sat through a cine in months because you run marathons and advance at the bounded aliment bank. He says, “Volunteering is a decay of time because you can’t advice ‘those people’ anyway.” You attending at your watch; see that it’s alone been 10 account back you aftermost looked at it the aftermost time and admiration how continued it is afore you can alluringly abolish yourself from the situation. Been there?

Now brainstorm a date with addition you met through internet dating and accept been chatting online with and exchanging emails with for absolutely some time. First, you don’t charge to be introduced. You already apperceive this man. You are sitting in an Italian restaurant adequate a adorable meal because you both apperceive that the other’s admired is Italian. The chat flows calmly as you altercate accepted interests. He runs marathons and loves history aloof like you do. You appropriately altercate the advance assignment that anniversary of you is complex in. You attending at your watch and ascertain that it is late…very late…where Has the time gone.

There is a big aberration amid a well-intentioned acquaintance “setting you up” and allotment a man for yourself who shares your interests and tastes, isn’t there? Now which one would you rather have?

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