ip_outcast81 in Surrey is doing 22 things including…

try speed dating


 

ip_outcast81 has written 2 entries about this goal

Sort of tried it! 8 months ago

Following my last entry on this I did try and go Speed Dating. Unfortunately after me and my friends had arrived and been there waiting for everything to start for a good half an hour we were told the event had ben cancelled.

Apparently a large group of girls had bailed out at the last minute and there wasn’t a decent number of us to make a night of it. We then ended up on a table with the few people that had turned up and stayed (4 guys, 1 girl including us) and the girl just started kicking off at the organiser and then moaning about having to go home alone.

It didn’t help that prior to this she had started to come onto me and as I’m not very good at taking compliments it was a bit awkward and very scary! And though I wish I could say that my experience hadn’t put me off trying again, but I think it has. Oh and it also took bloody ages to get my money back as they would only offer me tickets to another event and the guy who I spoke to was a lied to me about a few things too. All in all – not good. :(



Tickets Booked! 16 months ago

I’m going Speed Dating on the 15th August with a couple of friends and to be honest I’m shitting myself a little. One of my friends described Speed Dating as the two worst bits of a date put together – the beginning and the end and I think he’s right.

I don’t know what questions I’ll ask, how to greet them (handshake or kiss on the cheek) and I don’t know what to do if I don’t like the person or realise immediately that we have nothing in common.

The irony to this of course is that I’m not really doing this for myself, but for my best friend who refuses to go by himself or with just my other friend and as we never managed to do the whole double date thing whilst I was seeing someone I thought I owed it to him.

As you can tell I’m a bit of a worrier, so if anyone has any experience or advice that’d be appreciated, cheers.



 

I want to:
43 Things Login