try speed dating

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. :(

I think this is pretty funny…But have always wantd to do it.

but every time i sign up, i get stuck on the waiting list to no avail…

plus a great way to meet people! id love to do it!!
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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 only went as a favour for a friend. Our other mate chickened out last minute and so I went along with him instead. I was only looking to have a laugh, which I did. I thought it would have been full or geeks or weirdos, but that wasn’t the case. Lots of teachers/accountants/lawyer types. Girls with a similar sense of having fun, socialising and meeting new people. We even went to a club after it with a load of them. Would definately do it again if it came around.
Went looking for new friends and found them.

I was supposed to go today, and completely wimped out and skipped it. I just wasn’t in the mood, and it felt weird going by myself (without a friend). I don’t want to give up, though—maybe next time I can find someone to go with me and it won’t be so intimidating.

just breath…
it was like a self-challenge: am i able to do it or not? and i’ve done. the best part? meeting absolutely different people who have their total attention on current conversation. basically, you can ask anything. of course, if you expect to meet someone for specific goal, then you need to build a strategy. but i didn’t have any particular goal. thus, i felt free. probably, i’ll do it again but with a friend, it’s much more fun!

I had totally forgot about this, but it’s this coming Tuesday! Should be interesting….

I signed up for this in July. I’ve always wanted to try it, since it seems like an interesting idea, and even if nothing works out, it would be a neat little experiment and maybe even pretty fun. So here goes!