Escape a bad date
Thursday’s New York Metro featured a piece by Kristy Korcz about apps designed to get you away from an obnoxious, creepy, hygienically challenged, or plain old boring date immediately.
My first instinct was to dismiss these tools as just another way to be mean to people. Face it, we’ve all known women who’ve given a man a fake number or, worse, the digits to a pre-recorded reject line (with a message to the stinging effect of, “The person who gave you this number does not want to go out with you and never wants you to contact them again!”).
And I’ve known a man or two who’d collect as many numbers from women as possible, only to tear them up into little bits at the end of the night (yeah, it is pretty sick; you wouldn’t want to date those guys, anyway).
These people will definitely abuse the get-out-of-there-like-a-bat-out-of-hell apps. Such a woman will spy the guy she met on Match.com from a restaurant window and decide on the basis of the shape of his nose that he’s not what she had in mind. With the help of an app like Fake ‘Em Out, she can rig an emergency call or text message with an excuse to make a quick exit.
Thing is, she who lives by the sword dies by the sword. If a woman uses a break-a-date app before giving a guy a decent chance, she should be open to the possibility that a guy will do the same thing to her. (It all gets down to that ‘treat others as you would have them treat you’ thing, which makes living on this planet so much more enjoyable. If that doesn’t inspire anybody, the late Ann Landers insisted that ”Time wounds all heels.”).
After giving it some thought, though, I remembered a good friend telling me about having dinner with a first date who went into technicolor detail about his favorite sex positions. And then kept making “So what you think?’ gestures with his eyebrows. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, you have my blessing to get away from such a clueless and pathetic individual by any means available.
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