Have you ever gone on a blind date?

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posted 14-Mar-1999 12:23pm

If I was single I'd do it. Its only one date.

posted 14-Mar-1999 12:45pm

I've gone on a bunch, both being set up by friends and going out with people I've met through personal ads. I've had a variety of outcomes. I've never gone on to seriously date someone I met this way, but I've had pleasant times and it's been interesting to meet these different people. Occasionally it's been awful, but those are at least the source of good stories. I highly recommend that if you're being set up by friends, you insist that the friends just invite the two of you over for dinner, so that some of the pressure is off. I think this makes it much easier to interact naturally, which is a big problem on blind dates. I won't ever go on one again, I hope, because I am not on the hunt anymore and hope never to be again. I think there is something of a social stigma about them, but I'm not noted for letting that cramp my style. If you're single and you don't like it that way, doing *anything* that gets you out and meeting people, helps.

elijahblue

posted 14-Mar-1999 1:01pm

Yes, and it seemed to go ok at the time but we haven't seen each other again (this was like a month and a half ago so I doubt we will).

Handle

posted 14-Mar-1999 5:31pm

The last blind date I went on, the girl couldn't speak English. She was visiting my friend's girlfriend. It was awkward, what do you do on a first date with a nice girl who can't speak English.

Pomeranian

posted 14-Mar-1999 6:24pm

Too me, all dates are blind dates, unless you have known the person for years and have recently decided itis time for things to turn romantic.

jjg

posted 15-Mar-1999 7:35am

Never been on a blind date, but I have been on a date that I didn't know was a date until half way through it.

drdt

posted 15-Mar-1999 2:30pm

Of course I have been on a bare minimum of sight-enabled dates too...

Handle: I think that would have been a lot of fun, as long as you both accept the fact that verbal communication is right out. If nothing else you have something to 'talk' about - the language barrier - and that has to be good for a lot of laughs.

steve

posted 15-Mar-1999 2:31pm

I can't imagine going on any kind of date with anyone other than my husband now, so I didn't answer that part of the question.

reality

posted 16-Mar-1999 9:56am

I guess I fall into the other category. I have been on a couple double dates where the girl I was set up with hadn't met me. They went okay.. in both cases the girls liked me well enough, but it didn't 'click' for me so I didn't go out with them again. so it isn't as described in the question, and it depends on your definition of well. (I did click went well, and I'd do it again)

Nyssa

posted 16-Mar-1999 6:02pm

Many times, with a wide range of results.

phi

posted 18-Mar-1999 10:26pm

It's not so much that it turned out poorly as that it didn't really turn out at all.

pandora

posted 27-Mar-1999 8:53pm

I would be WAY too nervous for that. I can hardly bring myself to go out with people I already know.

mandy

posted 31-Mar-1999 9:51pm

No fukkin' way....I would never date the blind....*giggles*

Pooh_Bear

posted 8-Apr-1999 11:07am

I ended up marrying him.

eris

posted 23-Apr-1999 8:51pm

It turned out quite well, from my viewpoint - in fact, I probably lost quite a few of my earliest-lost purity points... Nothing came of it, but then I didn't really expect it to. I think the main problem (apart from rank unsuitability) with blind dates is inappropriate expectations.

miykal

posted 7-Jul-1999 1:01am

I voted yes, and it turned out well. The date was in 1959 and we are still together. We have 4 wonderfull children, 3 daughters and a son, and a wonderfull grand daughter Emma, with red hair and blue eyes, 7 months old. However we have had our ups and downs (scuse the pun). Isn't life meant to be an adventure, not to be taken too seriously all the time?. This is one of the reasons I enjoy SC so much, it really is fun most of the time.