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Hi all. So I mentioned last month that I'm going to my first speed dating event. I have a screenshot of the post below. I just got back about an hour ago and it went pretty much as I expected. When I got there, I sat with another girl and we started talking. She said as she's been to one of these before and recognized one of the guys names. She told me he's a male dancer.
Another girl comes and sits with us. We're talking and we notice some of the guys that arrived. We looked at each other and said, this is what showed up???? The girls were put together and some of the guys looked like they rolled out of bed and put on the first thing they saw. Shirts were wrinkled.
So the event finally starts and we took our seats. It was 7 minutes each and 15 women and 15 men (the event was called 7 Minutes in Heaven). I got asked pretty much the same question each time, only a few conversations were interesting. One guy kept looking at my chest, another kept looking at the TV (it was at a bar & grill restaurant so they had tvs on to a baseball game). Some of them I felt like I was pulling teeth. The final guy was telling me about another event he went to where the girl looked like she was on something. Also, some of these guys careers ranged from Physician Assistant, Engineer, Sports Medicine, Accountant, Private Investigator.
The night finally came to an end, and I was pretty exhausted and ready to leave after a long day of work too. I handed my paper and marked "no" to all of the men. I don't know I'll do this again. Maybe if the event is interesting but in the meantime, this one was enough to last me a while.
Now you can tell your mom that you had 7 dates and they were all duds. I've never done speed dating but give it a thought once in awhile. It's good to know I'm not missing anything.
The atmosphere for this is very wrong. Who hosts this at a bar or an event with TV on? Oh well, you got to experience it now so onto the next. I don’t think I can do speed dating. It means I have to be stuck with lots of LVMs in a short period of time. But A for effort.
I think instead of the normal, get to know you questions, I would have just called them all out for their lack of hygiene. "So what made you come to a dating event unshowered with crinkled up clothes?" "Why would you show up to a dating event putting in barely any effort into your appearance?" Etc
Ugh, I'm sorry you had to waste a whole summer evening on fifteen consecutive conversations that all sound like they were awful, or at least boring.
I feel like the game plan for you today, @Galaktoboureko89🧿♉️🇬🇷🗽 , should be to plan out an equal amount of time (or maybe more) where you focus entirely on things you LOVE to do. Like, make a list! And have those things be your evening or your entire day. YOU'VE EARNED IT!!!
the idea of speed dating itself gives me anxiety.
theres absolutely NO chance you can connect with someone that fast, unless its Love Island show and all guys are obsenely, out of this world hot. which will never happen in real life.
In reality, it will be full with awkward, coffee-stained teeth, beer-bellied nerds and middle managers that don't know how to act around women but think everybody owes them.