What is your opinion of blind dates, and of your friends, relatives, acquaintances, or whoever arranging for you to meet someone whom you've never met? Have your experiences been positive or negative? Feel free to post whatever you wish to share here.

Nay!

Yay! The two blind dates I had in my life led to nice affairs though they didn't last too long. And they were with girls who were not my blind dates...

Well, I've only had one blind date in my entire life (arranged by a friend) and it was a negative experience.

However, despite my negative experience, I don't necessarily feel blind dates are a bad idea, or always a bad thing. In my specific case, it was a situation of merely filling a spot, so to speak, as my friend's boyfriend had a friend come into town and I was just there to make it a foursome. So it was not a date set up by someone close to me, who knew a guy and thought we'd be compatible or get along well or shared common interests and thought there'd be anything to come out of it past that one night.

But - I think if a blind date date is set up by someone who knows the two parties involved well enough to judge whether they have some common interests and compatible personalities, and you both trust the "matchmaker's" judgement and taste in other areas of their life, then the date might turn out to be a good time for the daters. ESPECIALLY if both 2 parties go into the date with the attitude of "I'm just here to have a good time, meet a new person, and maybe make a new friend" and NOT with the preconceived notion that the blind date will turn out to be their soulmate or the love of their life. I've known people who've gone into blind dates with those hopes/dreams/expectations, and if you do that, you're basically asking for disappointment. If you just go with the idea of having a nice time for a few hours, and you're the adventurous type anyway, it can be lots of fun (or at least very interesting..)

It can also help if the blind date is with another couple to help take the pressure off a bit.

So - I guess I vote "Yay!", but with some qualifiers and caveats.

If a blind date opportunity presented itself to me now, and if I felt the person arranging it knew me well, I'd probably go, with the idea only of possibly making a potential new friend, and in the interest of a little excitement.

(And of course, if the person turns out to be a completely unbearable drip, there's always the standby of suddenly getting "violently ill" during the date and having to go home early!! )
[This message was edited Mon Feb 17 14:38:16 PST 2003 by SnowQueen]

Not for me! I gotta feel the vibe.

I would be willing to date a blind girl as long as she was hot

lovemachine said:

Too Funny I Agree.I say Yay Sure why not?as long as the Lady isn't a Serial Killer than it would be cool.

Nay!

Nay, too many sucky people in the world...

Nay, thank you.

BelleBeyond said:

BELLE!!

CalhounSq said:

Cal!

psychodelicide said:

Does it count as a "blind date" if you'd never met him or her in person, but had communicated over the Internet on multiple occasions and talked on the phone once?

If so, I had a blind date... and it led to a marriage about three years later.

matt said:

Wow Matt! Good for you!

I recommend blind dates, even ones set up over the internet. I've done it a few times, and it ended after the first date, but I look back on them as fun experiences no matter how bad and awkward they are. Dating is fun, even the bad dates.

In the middle of the awful date, just think to yourself "Good grief, how am I gonna get through the evening? Might as well mess with this person's head and go home." Pretend you're on a TV dating show and ratings are at stake. Better make it interesting for anyone watching, cuz you sure aren't having fun.

Blind dates shouldn't be taken seriously, IMO. But go for it and see what misadventures you can find.

Oh, heyyylll NAY.

I didn't like it when a family friend tried to set me up on a date years ago, and I wouldn't like it now. I've always been quite capable of figuring out who I wanted to go out with by myself and making it happen if I wanted, thankyouverymuch. To me it's presumptuous of other people to want to set others up with a blind date - unless they have the OK from the other person to begin with.

Absolutely not!

I've never been on one, but those people that I know that have were always disappointed, and it seems the "friends" usually pick some doofus who looks good in jeans and that's about all he has going for him. No way.




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[This message was edited Tue Feb 18 19:21:37 PST 2003 by AzureStar]

It's easy to get disappointed from any date, whether it's a blind date or not. It's our minds playing tricks on us. If you're going to go on a blind date, I'd recommend you drop any expectations and just think, "I'm going to meet a complete stranger now. He could be a freak, he could be great, or he could just be blah. Oh well, I have a date!"

If you get easily disappointed or upset, then definitely avoid blind dates. And dating in general. Kidding... =)

AzureStar said:

OMG Azure, sooo true!!!

I think the biggest mistake I made in letting people match me up with somebody is that the people who did the matchmaking are people I was friends with, but did not know me very well as far as what I was looking for in a man (I'm picky y'all). As a result, the dates either were not interested, backed out and/or told me they had "somebody else", or the dates were a TOTAL fiasco. Never again; from now on I am going to be picking the people who I want to date, and that is it. I would not recommend blind dates to ANYBODY. You're better off getting involved in things and meeting people that way. At least you will have similar interests.

lovemachine said:

id go if i could be on one of those tv shows blind date,extreme date,traildaters

Paisley said:

What is he supposed to say? Who wants to date someone they find unattractive?





Hot and very sexy edit
[This message was edited Wed Feb 19 21:04:29 PST 2003 by SuperC]