Thursday, March 01, 2007

Dating Red Flags!!

Ok, I read this article today Dating Red Flags. It was hilarious!!! Great to get a guy's perspective from someone over 40!!! As a matter of fact...I would love to know what Lone Ranger considers a "dealbreaker" when he is dating? You know the point on a date where you say, "O.k. time to check out...this date is OVER. I cannot believe you just did that." Here's a smidgeon:
Ladies and gentlemen, please read Michael Shnayerson’s 12-step program for avoiding romantic tragedy: the relationship red flags. The heart you save may be your own. Not long ago, I met a very attractive single mother of two at a dinner party in Sag Harbor, New York. We were seated next to each other-a "soft" setup-and by dessert, we were punctuating our stories with little touches: her hand on my forearm, mine on hers. Good signs. Then the first of her two children, a boy of about ten, descended from an upstairs TV room. In each hand he clutched an action figure. This in itself was not disconcerting. It was the way he slammed the action figures into each other, his upper lip curled in a sneer, that gave me pause-that, and the adoring look his mother chose to bestow on him as he did. Still, D-, the boy's mother, was definitely worth a follow-up. A few days later, I drove over to the waterfront inn where she had encamped with her children for a brief summer vacation. The plan was a swim in the inn's pool, then lunch at a nearby restaurant: a little ersatz family outing. D- ushered me into her room and announced the obvious fact of my arrival to her children.
You will have to read the rest and his LIST. One part, that cracked me up about this article, is this author is a writer and his last book was called, "The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria," written with Mark J. Plotkin. Bacteria and Bad Women maybe there is a connection?? Too funny.

6 comments:

Lone Ranger said...

The Lone Ranger does not date. I consider every date to be a potential mate, so I have never gone out with a woman I didn't want to marry. Married one, lost two. As for bad sex, I wouldn't know, since I believe sex is for the marriage bed. Yup, call me old fashioned.

Tonto said...

I knew you didn't date with "intentions" but I was wondering if you ever went out with a lemon that just didn't become a marrgiage potential. But i am sure you picked carefully that you knew before you went out it could work...meaning marry her.

I had a friend who said he was out with a great women and she seemed great but when they were at a restaruant she would insist he order for her...now that wasn't suh a big deal but she would tell him her order while the waiter was STANDING RIGHT THERE! and expect my friend to repeat it to the waiter...after the third time this happened he turned to her and said...You know he can hear you right?

He never went out with her again...thought there was an issue there.

I was just wondering if you had a story like that.

I don't have one either. I married my first boyfriend.

Tonto said...

BTW - I meant without intentions not with intentions.

Cyndi L said...

Your style of morals are not completely dead, LR. My son is getting married this spring to a lady that he has courted, not dated (long distance too). No kicking the tires for them prior to buying. Good for them...I'm proud of both of them.

Lone Ranger said...

I didn't date even in high school. Every girl considered me her big brother and that was fine with me.

Cyndi L said...

Neither did Nate. Being everyone's big brother and confidante is a good thing and teaches you a lot about the opposite sex without having to get your heart broken multiple times. Lizzie is Nate's first love :-)