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Posted January 29 2008 by Dave Weinberg

Time For a New Dating Strategy?

Dating?

Posted on behalf of and with permission from “Anonymous Dater” to protect the identities of those involved.

I am very fortunate to have good friends that look out for my best interest, and send me great girls to date. I get great excitement when two friends independently think of the same girl, as it points to a lot of potential.

So let’s say friend A suggests a girl, and then 6 months later I hear the same name from friend B. Now that it’s been double-friended, I ask friend B to tell me about her. She sounds good, but not wanting to let friend A feel left out, I go back to friend A to set it up. It gets set up, we go out, and it’s, “ok.” I go back to friend B and say, that’s so weird, I know she probably wasn’t herself, but all those things you said about her - I just didn’t see them.

Fast forward - the next day, I’m telling another friend about the date, and the question comes up where this girl is from. I say one city. The response - oh, never mind, I guess it’s a different person, because that girl lives in another city. That was the end of that conversation…but the beginning of another…

Bottom line, there are two girls, same name. These girls are so similar, that even with all the information I had going into the date, I never figured out the difference. I just proceeded with all the facts in conversation with this girl, and never realized that all the background data applied to somebody else. Friend A and B were talking about two different girls, and I went out with the wrong one.

~ Anonymous Dater

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