Short Dating

I went speed dating last Saturday. I feel speed dating is an incorrect term. It wasn’t fast, it was short. 7 minutes is not very long to have a conversation and make a decision. This leaves speed dating with an interesting problem: The idea is to make it easy and non-confrontational to say “yes” or “no” to someone, by way of having people secretly fill out forms. You get told about it only where there is a match. The problem comes from 7 minutes being really hard to base a decision on, and having the make decisions on the spot. If afterwards you decide “no, that probably wouldn’t work with that person”, then you are in a bit of a bind. How do you say “I don’t think we’d match” after you’ve said “yes, we’d match”.

 

Of course, none of these even comes close to the real problem, which of course that I like to kill puppies in my spare time, and many women find this off-putting.