Your friend has decided that you need help with your social life so she sets you up with a blind
date, a friend of a friend of a friend. You, foolishly, accept. Now there you are.
You've taken the plunge and are on your first blind date, the girls have set up for you. You are
waiting at the door of a restaurant of his choice, for Jack, who you have been told, "has the cutest
dimples anyone has ever seen on a guy". What they didn't tell you as the big guy comes walloping
over is that he is 5'5" and weighs over 300 pounds. You a 5'8" and thin. As he walks over to you,
you look down at him and smile.
As you begin talking, you realize that Jack knows the weekly TV schedule verbatim. You haven't sat
through a movie in months because you run marathons and volunteer at the local food bank. He says,
"Volunteering is a waste of time because you can't help those people, anyway.
When the waitress comes over, who appears to be wearing a bikini with lace over it, Jack orders ribs
and you ask the waitress if there are any vegetarian items on the menu. She says yes we have onion
rings. Jack is surprised that you are vegetarian and tells you that, you can also have his french
fries. You wonder how much longer you will have to endure this.
I assure you, my online dating experiences were very different from this. When I used to meet guys
on-line, before I met my husband on-line, we would email back and forth, and talk over the phone as
long as we wanted to, before physically meeting.
Many on-line services will not only allow you to see a picture, exchange emails and converse over
the phone with someone where there is mutual interest, but with some, you can also see a video of
your potential friend. Before you meet in person, you have been talking for a while, you know each
other, and have now both decided to take the next logical step, a physical meeting.
He runs marathons and loves history just like you do. You happily discuss the volunteer work that
each of you is involved in. You look at your watch and discover that it is late, very late and you
wonder happily, where has all the time gone.
With blind dating your friends choose your date for you, thinking they know who you are looking for.
With online dating you choose your potential friends yourself, based on pictures, emails and
sometimes videos. Since time today is such a precious commodity, we need to be as efficient as we
possibly can be, with it.
Which one would you rather have?
