Genesia said:

This post is so Nightline/48 HRS. Love:Catch a Predator Style.
[Edited 12/31/09 7:57am]

ConsciousContact said:

That's cool. I do, though.

CarrieMpls said:

Oh sure.

First date, you're all pretty and polite, and well manored.

Then when I fly up to see you in Miniapolis, there's chains and dog collars-for-people and domination pictures in your bathroom, and you're smoking with your hair wet in front of me.

Most definately and I want the other person to be dressed to. It makes it more fun while you're undressing them later.

vainandy said:

That was pretty tame for you. I saw your name on this thread and I immediately had to click on it cause I thought it would end up being about hairy dicks.

Genesia said:

I met points number 1 and 4. As for point 3, I didn´t have a friend to call me, but I had an excuse to leave prepared.
As for point 2. that was not set completely cause the trouble was that he saw my profile on the net, wrote me, wanted to meet me, looked kinda nice, so I agreed, but he lived far away and I didn´t feel like travelling anywhere to meet him. He agreed to come over. The journey took him 4 hours, so coming here and back took him 8 hours, so I didn´t wanna leave too early, but I see your point, you´re right.


I agree with this statement the most.
I would hate someone putting on a show to impress me. I´d rather that person to be themselves, too. But I think even you, JustErin, would agree that you dress differently for different occasions, don´t you? Are you trying to tell me that you dress the same lying around watching TV as you do when going to a theatre or a party? Of course, you don´t. You may be yourself, but you still adjust to the situation, right? Including a date?

There's of course a difference between how you dress up in public and how you dress up at home.

I don't exactly walk around in public wearing only a t-shirt with no pants, which is how I'm "dressed up" right now, btw.

First impression means alot

johnart said:

I also find it useful to know how to operate the ringer of my phone whilst it's in my pocket. Then, if the date is going badly, I can fake a phone call from work/babysitter etc which gives me a polite excuse to get the F out of there asap. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem that easy to do on the iPhone, so I'll probably need to go through all the rigmarole of carrying an auxillary phone just so I'm able to call the main phone.

However, I did once get rumbled when I was having one of these "conversations" and the phone rang for real when I was speaking into it. Busted!!!

nyse said:

"...'cos every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man"

JustErin said:

This is SUCH the best policy I expose myself immediately that way if someone can't handle that I'm a crazy witch, well then I gotsta move on

dag said:

I really don't see what dressing for different occasions has to do what with I said, but ok.

Genesia said:

Or don't do blind dates.

JustErin said:

I love you org-wise

Imago said:

At what point do you usually throw in some Prince falsetto or a Rosie Gaines impression?

ConsciousContact said:

I'm not sure who else they could be. Who are they when they're putting on a so-called 'act'? Isn't that just being themselves, someone who puts on an act for a date? Surely it's as much their real self as anything else about them. Seems Erin just prefers the company of people who don't have that as part of their personality.

i'm stating the obvious here, but you can't expect someone who goes by the name 'JustErin' to be interested in putting on airs, can you?

Fauxie said:

Choke me slowly and then fastly.

whistle said:

Or maybe I am not very creative.

JustErin said:

but then there's your sig...

whistle said:

Hahaha...true.

whistle said:

It's an act.

JustErin said:

You'll take what you're given.

Fauxie said:

It's actually just me trying to convince myself that I really am not dumb...which after today, there is no denying that I clearly am.

JustErin said:

what is about today that removes all doubt?

(um, i don't mean that the way it sounds.)

whistle said:

My latest tweet explains it all.

"Hi, I totally just bought this car and seeing as I am an idiot I put washer fluid in the coolant container. Um, is that bad, Mr Car Guy?"

JustErin said:

Fauxie said:

That is exactly what I said to the dude. At least I realized that I did it right away and went to Canadian Tire right away.

Apparently, it's no big deal.

zaza said:

LOL...zaza, I saw the words Czech man and thought of you immediately!

You know, I'm not at ALL about being fake with people, but I do make a real effort to make a first date into a good experience for the other person, no matter what I think of them. Dating is hard. Even if somebody doesn't really dig me, if they're taking a chance on me, I want them to have a pleasant evening. I try not to leave people with horror stories that they'll go post on the internet.

That starts with being up-front before we go out. I'm a fat chick. I have a potty mouth. I'm a liberal atheist, and not shy about it. Nobody goes out with me without knowing these things in advance, basically -- no truly blind dates.

Now that I think about it, if I don't think somebody is right for me, I'll go out of my way even more to make it a pleasant experience. Doesn't matter if they know the real me, cuz the real me doesn't plan to see them again! Might as well have a nice time.