Speed date, blind date, brunch date, dinner date, fixed up, cyber date, serial date, polydate. So many dates, so little time?
Joel Koosed, has been called the Bay Area Cupid of speed dating. His thriving business, the Meeting Game Salon, is a veritable social institution in the Bay Area. Koosed organizes multiple events each week for singles of every age and persuasion.
Make it your New Year's resolution to attend one of the various venues of Speed Dating Parties or one of the lively "Tuesday night chats" where men and women, of an age, get together and candidly discuss the dating dilemmas: what do women want? what are men are looking for? And all the other various permutations involved. Be open to new experiences in Twenty 12.
Buckle Up Baby, it’s Going to be a Bumpy Ride
KarynK of Orinda has two interview skills and claims that’s all she needs. She listens carefully and asks a handful of questions, which launch 100 word answers. Like a fly fisherman, she deftly snaps the line into the water and allows her date do his job.
The Top 20 Questions to Get the Conversation Rolling.
1. Tell me about your best friend.
2. Tell me about you very worst job.
3. What was your very first car?
4. What was your best job?
5. Tell me about your family and where you grew up.
6. Tell me about your very favorite relative.
7. Tell me all the places you’ve worked.
8. Who is your favorite female movie star?
9. What are your hobbies?
10. What’s you very favorite song?
11. Tell me one really life-changing moment?
12. When did you meet your very first girlfriend/boyfriend?
13. When was your first kiss and with whom?
14. What is the dumbest thing you have ever done?
15. Have you ever been arrested?
16. What was the most romantic date you’ve ever planned.
17. They say, “Women shop and men buy.” What is one store you wouldn’t be caught dead in?
18. Have you ever used drugs?
19. Tell me what your perfect day-off looks like?
20. If someone gave you two free tickets to anywhere in the world – where would you go?
Dave Barry, the arbiter of good taste and gimlet-eyed insights reminds us, “What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
San Francisco Dating@50 Examiner, Page Larkin, welcomes your feedback, questions and queries at Page.Larkin@gmail.com.
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