What is Speed Dating?
A relatively new phenomenon where you have anywhere from 2-15 minutes to sell yourself and to gauge whether you want to follow up on the one sitting opposite you doing the same.
The process varies according to the organiser and country, but usually organised to meet in a bar somewhere where approximately an even number of single ladies and single guys get the chance to talk and ask questions of each other, and also naturally to check each other out physically to see whether there might be some connection or attraction and the possibility to arrange a date later.
Why?
We have all had that date where within the first few minutes we knew it wasn’t going to go anywhere but unless your wingman called that your grandma has just been rushed to hospital and you can bail, you are forced to sit through an agonizing couple of hours and for the guys the cost of drinks and a meal or whatever the prearranged blind date was. Speed dating takes out this uncertainty. It’s like blind dating on steroids. You get to meet several to many woman in the space of of a couple of hours with no pressure and best of all no obligation whatsoever. If the attraction, spark, or connection is there you can arrange for another proper meeting. If not you have only wasted a few minutes of your life.
How does it work?
Of course again it can vary depending on the organiser. But basically the organiser has your contact details when you register. You tick the ones you would maybe like to see again, and here is the beauty of this, only if the other participant has also ticked that he or she is interested to see you again, that your details are made available to the other party and vice versa. So, if that rather large woman who talks non stop about her ex for 10 minutes straight and you just want to get the hell out of there will not get your phone number and that will be the last you see of her. On the other hand if that gorgeous blonde with the come to bed eyes has also ticked your box you can get her phone number at the end of the night and give her a call. What could be better?
Safe?
Only the organiser has your contact details and these will only be shared with the other party if you too have shown and interest in wanting to see them again as well by ticking their box. If both do not express a desire to exchange phone numbers than neither gets the others details, so yes very safe other than the creep following you home, but of course that can happen from any bar situation.
What is there to lose?
It generally doesn’t cost much and the worst that can happen is you wasted 2 hours of your life if you find no one you that maybe has your interest, or worst case if nobody ticks your box. The upside is that to have found this out the usual blind dating way, or from endless messages on a dating site and finally meeting someone who looks and is nothing like you were led to believe from their on-line profile, would have taken a dozen dates or more, time, expense and many many wasted hours.
So why not give it a go. Speed dating wouldn’t still exist if it didn’t have an upside. Again nothing to lose, so go for it. Search for speed dating in your local area and give it a go. Somewhere out there is the one for you…you just have to meet them.
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