insider scoop
San Diego LGBT Weekly’s editorial staff have taken their combined wisdom and experience (i.e. lessons learned from past floundering) on the dating circuit to bring you this list of date-night dos and don’ts.
• Don’t put your elbows on the table. It’s still bad manners.
• Don’t drink too much: You’ll say something, or worse, do something you’ll regret.
• Don’t talk with your mouth full. No one wants your food on their face.
• Don’t get your calculator out when the check comes. Either pick it and pay, or say thank you to your date if he or she offers to get it. Of course, there’s something to be said for either splitting the bill or defaulting to he or she who invited is the person who pays.
• Do go into a date assuming that it is an opportunity to make a new friend.
• Do be yourself. That’s who your date’s going to end up with anyway, if things work out.
• Do listen. Curiosity about your date’s life and thoughts will, if there’s ongoing date potential there, prompt reciprocal curiosity about you and yours.
• Do have agenda-free fun. That’s what dates are for.
