Saturday, March 5, 2011

Drinking And Driving On A Date - Yes, No, Maybe, Maybe Not

Wetherspoons have a great steak lunch for two with a bottle of wine. However, it's not ideal if you want to be wide awake at work later in the afternoon. Watch out that you don’t get so drunk that you have a hangover.


What about the man who persuades a woman to drink with a meal or go for a drink, when she doesn't want to? Or go back to his place for a meal and a drink. What if the meal does not appear? The champagne turns into beer?


If you try to persuade anybody else to do something they clearly don't want to do, you run the risk that they will be forced into agreeing and then chicken out at the last minute.


If a man, or woman, is too pushy on date one or two, the other person might begin to feel they are being pushed around. They feel out of control and just too worried to enjoy themselves.

Try not to make too many demands. Remember the film When Harry Met Sally.

The man might not want the hassle and expense of booking a restaurant.

But the lady doesn’t want the hassle and expense of buying a new phone and making all sorts of background checks on the man’s address and phone and car and identity.


c) What is she supposed to tell the family? That she is going to a nearby restaurant which they know, which they could phone if it got to midnight and she was missing? A place which has a record of both of them on CCTV.


Or to admit that she has no idea where she’s going, she’s with somebody whose address she doesn't know, somebody she's never met nor spoken to, who does not belong to any club she belongs to, and she’s going back to his place on date two. How does that look to his family and hers if it ever gets in the papers?


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