MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH GUYS AND
"ICE CREAM" DATES
When I saw that the participation rate of last week's pole entitled
First Date had nearly quadrupled from the week prior, I smiled, and couldn't help but wonder whether some of the guys on Plenty of Fish
might have made it a point to weigh in. You see, I
may have sounded off a bit in my dating profile about guys who prefer taking girls out for ice cream or coffee on a first date. In my defense gentleman, please allow me to clarify.... Simply based on
my own experiences, guys who insist on these types of extremely casual first date settings tend to fall into 1 of 4 categories:
He:
a. Is a recovering alcoholic-- I mean come on here, we're not 12 years old! First dates are extremely awkward!!! Plus, they can be boring! I liken a first date to a job interview. I show up looking my best and prepared to endure at least an hour's worth of questions and discussion about my background, passions, likes, dislikes, blah, blah, blah. On top of that I will have to listen to him do the same for approximately the same length of time. Why not make things a little less awkward for not only you, but mainly me, and throw a drink in the mix?
To me,
unless you're Mormon, a drink is standard operating procedure for a first date!! Even if you don't want to drink, you should at least be gentleman enough to consider the girl might want to. I by no means suggest having more than one, however. Two at most if the date lasts awhile. Getting sh*t-faced or even moderately drunk is highly inadvisable and seriously unattractive!
b. Is only looking to get his d**k wetThe whole purpose of a first date is to get to know a person. It takes much longer to get to know anything substantive about a person in the 15 minute time-frame it takes to eat an ice cream cone. When a guy is
really interested in a girl, he'll go out of his way to make a good impression, especially on the first date! I've found that a good way to gauge a guy's interest in you is pay attention to where he takes you on the first date. A guy who's
really interested will go out of his way to make the night special and will see to it that I have a blast. By doing this he knows he'll be securing a second date; it's only common sense.
Taking a girl to Cold Stone doesn't exactly set the scene for romance. It certainly doesn't provide any indication what-so-ever on the guys behalf that he's put any thought or effort into planning the date. What it says to me is that he's not concerned with putting his best foot forward on the date and is therefore probably not all that interested in
me to begin with.
c. Is broke or cheapDo I need to elaborate?
Ord. Goes on so many dates he can't afford to take me somewhere decentThis is also something I regularly come across with guys who "have a lot of options", shall we say. This special subset of men is somewhat of a hybrid of (b) and (c), but not by choice, rather by circumstance. They tend to go through a lot of women because they're so attractive. Sadly, being
that hot tends to work against
so many of our sexy guys here in Scottsdale, Arizona...and it happens this way:
1.
The ratio of hot girls to hot guys in Scottsdale is about 1,000 to 1. This translates into
a lot of action and opportunity for that
1 guy. This has the effect of turning the guy into an in-date-able, undesirable a-hole who's so far up his own ass he can taste what he's having for breakfast tomorrow!!
No one wants to date a douche,
no matter how hot!! Rightfully so, these types of guys end up being filtered out and cast aside, labeled as "a fun time" but never seriously considered as a potential partner by any self-respecting girl.
Eventually they find themselves in their late 40s, single, alone, not-so-hot anymore, and surfing Plenty of Fish with their severely receding hairline wondering why all the hot 20 year-olds aren't responding to their messages.
(True story)
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