The “Coffee-date�
First dates can be tricky. If you’re not very familiar with the person, you may not know what to expect as far as who pays for what, how they’ll treat the wait-staff, or even if they’re an interesting person.
It’s possible that they’ll be more interested in talking about themselves than learning anything about you… or alternately, they’ll ask question after question about you that you forget to ask them about themselves in return.
It seems as though the coffee-date is close to perfect in that it’s an ideal get-in and get-out-if-you-need-to situation. It’s perfectly acceptable to end at the half-hour mark if you can barely stand the person you’re meeting.
But, it’s also “normal� to extend the chat for up to several hours and have it lead to yet another date if time and participants permit.
Check out Coffee Dates to get the goods on the stomping grounds of the coffee date.
October 13th, 2007 at 12:33 am
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