So Valentine’s Day is approaching and you’ve decided to get involved again in the ever shrinking dating pond. Congrats, you're a braver soul than we are.
Maybe you met on Tinder, maybe you met in a bar. Either way, expectations of your upcoming date are pretty low. Here's what you can expect:
You’ll spend most of the run up to the date thinking that you don’t really care about it, and will definitely just wear something you’ve got at the back of your wardrobe.Until the night before when you realise:
You’ll show your smug, coupled up flatmates the awesome outfit you’ve cobbled together and they’ll deliver a good old dose of self esteem:
Arriving will be the most awkward moment of the date. When he asks what you’d like to drink...
At this point it’s going to go one of two ways
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You’re drunk and think you have SO much in common that this is definitely the start of a lifetime of happiness.
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You’re drunk and realise this pathetic excuse of a man is making you miss the next episode of Girls to talk about how much he loves his football team or how he’s modelling himself on Jordan Belfort.
Either way, it’s probably best to leave before it gets to this stage:
And under NO circumstances should you spend the following day doing this:
Happy Dating!
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.