Dating tips for men, Part 2

A couple of weeks ago, I had a post about online dating tips. Now that I've finished going out with the most recent batch of men I met online, I've noticed a few more things they're doing wrong. Enjoy.

1. Say you're meeting your date for the first time. When a girl who resembles the picture online walks into the bar and is obviously looking around for someone and then smiles at you when you make eye contact, get off your barstool and ask her if she's meeting someone. Don't turn around and go back to watching tv and act like you're not waiting for someone. Really don't continue to sit there for 5 more minutes while the girl sits down at the table by herself and continues to look around and then finally decide that maybe you should ask her if she's waiting for someone. Making someone squirm and think she has been stood up is not a good first impression.

2. Say you're meeting your date for the first time. Don't be more than 5 minutes late, really don't be 15 minutes late. After 15 minutes, you're date is probably on her way out as you're coming in. Once again, making someone squirm and think she has been stood up is not a good first impression.

3. Say you're meeting your date for the first time. Take a shower/shave/wash your hair at some point within 12 hours before the date. Also, make sure you're wearing clean clothes. It's perfectly fine to wear jeans, but knock it up a couple of levels by wearing a nice shirt, not a gross t-shirt. Surely you own at least one nice shirt, if not, go shopping. Ebay has some great deals, just ask my mother.

4. The cardinal rule of posting pictures in your profile: Do not post a picture that makes you look cuter/more normal looking than you really are. It's ok to post a picture that does not do you justice since it'll be a pleasant surprise for your date. Note: if you have a front tooth that is significantly longer than the rest of your teeth, be sure to highlight this in a photo.

5. After the first date, don't email your date the next day extolling her virtues and asking her out again only to then drop off the face of the earth and not return her call or email. Sure, you may have made an idiot out of yourself by repeatingly calling an ingredient on your sandwich brussel sprouts instead of bean sprouts (really, two very different foods) and made other comments that fall into the "not the brightest bulb in the chandelier" genre. Still maybe you're date is willing to put aside (apparently there are merits to being smarter one in a relationship, but that's a whole other post). Still, very sketchy when you disappear after being all interested. If you suddenly appear again in a couple of weeks, you're call/email with certainly be ignored.

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