groovebuster
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Public transportation? Bicycle? By feet? Your parents drive you?muffinman said:
You Americans are funny.. you can't even imagine to do anything without your beloved cars... 🙄
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You Americans are funny.. you can't even imagine to do anything without your beloved cars... 🙄
groovebuster
I'd send you a rebuttal, on a pretty picture postcard of the scenery here in Los Angeles, but I can't get to the mailbox without my car. It's about 60 steps away from my front door, so I certainly can't get there without driving!groovebuster said:
But gas costs too much these days, so I'll have to let it go. 🙁
Flying Llama
macrumors 6502a
Ah but Los Angeles is much too dangerous for kids to be walking around... 😉
I live in Westwood Village (near UCLA) and it's pretty safe.
I live in Westwood Village (near UCLA) and it's pretty safe.
7on said:
No I didn't, though I've just realised it's ambiguously worded. 😛
e.g. if it's a pull door, you open it and she goes first. etc etc 😉
Also the other being that if you pick up a lady in the car, you always attend the door for her, however one never walks around the front of the car to get to you door, one always walk around the rear of the car. 😉
So tomorrow I'm planning to ask her out on dat #2. Even if date #1 was bad for her the convos we've had at work since then definitely would make me seem like a better person. I'm thinking of having the 2nd at my place play a little video games on the projector/watch movies and maybe cook her dinner (definitely have her help ;-) ) I'm not as jittery as I was before the first, so hopefully everything will go smoothly.
Just wish me luck 😀
Just wish me luck 😀
revenuee said:
Is it just me or does this sound like a load of crap to anyone else? Maybe its because most of the women I hang out with are dykes so maybe the dynamics and rules are different but none of them seem so superficial like that.
Are we really that shallow as revenuee makes us out to be? 😕
I can't offer much advise since I don't date much (or at all as of late) but good luck on your date Jon, I'm kinda a late bloomer too and I hope your relationship goes better than that one did...
Got a "Maybe" which pretty much explains everything.
I think it was the fact I asked her after class - and I had to run and catch up with her at the library where I slipped on the snow. Oh well, I'll see what happens. Maybe she needs to consult some friends much like I consult these boards.
I think it was the fact I asked her after class - and I had to run and catch up with her at the library where I slipped on the snow. Oh well, I'll see what happens. Maybe she needs to consult some friends much like I consult these boards.
Doctor Q said:
haha, wouldn't surprise me. She is half-way knowledgeable about computers (her Dad and bro are computer fiends, her dad's job is too write the software for Airphones). But she is in a sorority and really close to her housemates. I'm sure they already know about me etc.
I'm nursing a pulled muscle from when I slipped btw
aloofman
macrumors 68020
groovebuster said:
In my defense, southern California is so spread out and mass transit connects such a small number of places that it's pretty hard to get to many interesting places without a car. If I really wanted to live without a car, I'd almost have to move to Manhattan.
aloofman
macrumors 68020
vniow said:
(WARNING: GENERALIZATIONS AHEAD!)
I don't think it's a matter of women being shallow. I think that when it comes to dating, women hurt themselves in other ways:
1) Listening to the advice of stupid girlfriends. (Guy equivalent: "Dude, she won't care about a six-month anniversary. Let's watch the game instead.")
2) Waiting for a guy to take the initiative, instead of acting on her own feelings.
3) Being too subtle.
SilentPanda
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I don't think it sounded like the first date when horrible.... sometimes it's just awkward. When I started dating this one gal a while back we talked for about an hour or so over dinner and then the conversation seemed to die out. I thought to myself, "Oh goodness we'll never go out again"... ended up dating for another year... didn't work out in the long run but 1 date is hard to tell by.
As far as opening doors, etc, etc... pretend you are her secret service man, butler, door man, and everything else. Open the door like a doorman would do, pull out a chair like a butler, and open the car door like the secret service... make up some other stuff too... makes it fun... in your head... 😛
As far as opening doors, etc, etc... pretend you are her secret service man, butler, door man, and everything else. Open the door like a doorman would do, pull out a chair like a butler, and open the car door like the secret service... make up some other stuff too... makes it fun... in your head... 😛
maestro55
macrumors 68030
iGary said:
I often kid that I have given up on women and turning gay due to lack of success. It might be a hoot.
A) I watch musicals and listen to the music on my ipod.
B) I am not afriad to admit when a guy is attractive.
C) I wear pastels.
D) I wear bracelets.
ummm..
Anyhow.. Jon, good luck with your date. If things don't work out.. move on, or find a nice guy.