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Last night I went to my first speed-dating (or pre-dating) event, and I have to say I had a hell of a good time. There were 16 men and 16 women at this one, and we had 6 minutes to talk to each other. The women sat while the men moved from table to table.
I got there early, the meeting place was a bar in a nice restaurant / hotel. The age range was 29-42, and most of the people were towards the upper range (myself being 32). Most had done this before somewhere, I was one of the few first timers. Out of the 16 women there were only 4 that I wouldn't mind seeing again, I was kinda hoping for a better turnout. I think alot of the people were nervous, some had notes of things to ask and such, I pretty much just went in there and winged it. Talking isn't really much of a problem for me. Whatever I did worked, as alot of the women wanted to talk to me more afterwards. Apparently I made a better impression than most of the guys.
Not that it was too hard, a few guys looked like they came straight from a Star Trek convention. This one guy constantly tried to hit on all of the women, to the point of just being annoying. Another guy had a serious lying problem, I found out afterwards from the women that he told a different story to all of them! Another guy got so drunk beforehand that he just slurred and laughed his way through all of the sittings.
I'll probably do it again though, it was a good experience. Now we'll see if I get any real dates out of it.
I got there early, the meeting place was a bar in a nice restaurant / hotel. The age range was 29-42, and most of the people were towards the upper range (myself being 32). Most had done this before somewhere, I was one of the few first timers. Out of the 16 women there were only 4 that I wouldn't mind seeing again, I was kinda hoping for a better turnout. I think alot of the people were nervous, some had notes of things to ask and such, I pretty much just went in there and winged it. Talking isn't really much of a problem for me. Whatever I did worked, as alot of the women wanted to talk to me more afterwards. Apparently I made a better impression than most of the guys.
Not that it was too hard, a few guys looked like they came straight from a Star Trek convention. This one guy constantly tried to hit on all of the women, to the point of just being annoying. Another guy had a serious lying problem, I found out afterwards from the women that he told a different story to all of them! Another guy got so drunk beforehand that he just slurred and laughed his way through all of the sittings.
I'll probably do it again though, it was a good experience. Now we'll see if I get any real dates out of it.
So, of the 12 that you weren't interested in..what was the most common reason? Not attractive physically? Or they came across poorly... was it a different reason for each person? 
