50 first dates... well more like 15

So last night was my Speed Dating night! It was interesting...

I went with a friend because strength in numbers and all that. When we first got there the place was full of lovely ladies and three men. We kind of looked at each other and hoped more would show up because as it was, there were slim pickings. Finally more men started coming in, late of course because they are fashionably late and cool like that, and so we got started.

It was kind of neat... like adult musical chairs. I was number 8 and the men would go to the next number until you got to the first person you started with. We had 5 minutes with each guy then a chime rings for them to leave and sometimes it went quick but then other times it felt like the longest 5 minutes of my life and I was straining... hoping to hear that chime go off. There were good guys there but the crazy ones made it fun, in a Twilight Zone/Candid Camera kind of way.

So here's the gist of the top crazies...

• The Boring Tour Guide - My first experience was with a tall good looking guy. I was hopeful because he was cute in his shyness but then I realized he kept asking me which bars I like and have been to down Mill and proceeded to tell me the history of the bars, if the bars were still there and whether he had been to the same places I had been. I tried to ask other questions but he was more comfortable talking about Mill, so I let him. Therefore for 5 minutes I got a tour of Mill Avenue without having to go there.
•  The-look-what-I-can-do! - The next guy happened to be this guy who told me his resume, which is fine I guess but I was not looking to hire an online advertising agency(which is what he does... owns actually). Plus he did it in a funny voice which reminded me of Stewart from MadTV. I kept picturing him jumping up and down saying "Look what I can do! Look what I can do!" oh geez.
• The Close-talker - After "look what I can do I was lucky with about 4 normal sweet guys and then came Mr. Close-talker. He was nice but he kept leaning in and I kept leaning back. Ugh. We were playing our own game of limbo I think.
• The Starer - And of course right After Mr. Close-talker was another odd one. They seemed to come in spurts of 3 or 4 nice ones and then two weird ones... for variety, I guess. The Starer came up to my chair and just stared down at me on the couch I was sitting on and then just when it got awkward after our first "Hello," he said "You're Jennifer," then kneeled on the couch and stared some more, until he finally sat and started talking. Then he kept staring! He'd say something kind of funny, I'd laugh and he'd stare!
• The Drunk - The 2nd to last guy was just gone. Before him were another couple of nice guys and then the last two were just... great. He sat down on my knee so it was kind of trapped so I had to wiggle out from under him. OH Geez! And then leaning back all relaxed he asked if I had gotten asked good questions... then he asked me if I take drugs, when I said no he asked if I was a cop. 
• The Snob- And now for the last guy. The Snob. He sat down asked if I had any luck and then proceeded to tell me that he thought that more educated people would have come out to the Speed Dating "event" because isn't this "Scottsdale." To which I thought "dude... you are speed dating," but just smiled and told him my resume and education background and told him about the time I met Walter Cronkite, yes he was nice, bluest eyes I'd ever seen great voice saying "hello" to me... yep he was kind of quiet after that. snob. OH GEEZ!!! When that chime rang I was so happy and had to wait until my friend finished her last date before we ran for the door.   

So conclusion...

1. If you are going to one of these things don't take it seriously, just have fun and it will be fun.

2. Liquor helps.

3. The non-native people to Arizona were some of the nicer and more normal ones... so that's funny and sad at the same time.

4. Go with a friend so that you can laugh at them when they end up with the drunk one last and you can overhear a conversation like this...

Drunk: Do you dye your hair? *sluring

Friend: Sometimes.

Drunk: Do you dye it blonde? *drowsy slurring

Friend: No, I've never dyed it blonde.

Drunk: Good. I don't like blondes.*leaning back slurring

Friend: Ok.

And silence until the chimes went off.

5. Have somewhere fun to go after to unwind from the craziness... thank goodness my friends' band was playing and I got to see them rock it out.

SPEED DATING HOW TO:

How do you Speed date? (well at least what I learned in 5 steps)

1. Sign up at a Speed dating site.

2. Make sure that the bar/restaurant is not a shady place!

3. If you are a girl get comfy. If you are a guy then don't, because the girls get to stay in one spot while the guys play musical chairs and move from girl to girl.

4. Again buy alcohol.

5. Be nice even if they are boring you to death... just do what I did, smile and nod a lot.

WHERE WAS I?
Klique Now @ The Doll House
... hostess of Klique Now wasn't very fun and the Doll House was a little seedy and although the bartender was nice, he didn't know what he was doing as it was his first night bartending.