Phone conversation indication of how 1st date goes?

A very interesting observation... I've never noticed this tendency before, but you may be on to something here...

I think you should contact the authors of the New Dating Rules self-help book, so that they can incorporate your idea into their newly updated manual. You never know, you might even get some royalties out of it...

Just before you do though, you might consider finetuning your theory a little bit with a couple of points, something along the lines of this -

1. The first telephone conversation must be limited to strictly 2 minutes and 23 seconds to avoid too many socially inept pauses and silences.
2. If you don't like the sound of your potential date's voice on the phone, then you do not need to suffer the full 2 min and 23 sec of that converstaion at all. You can dump him/her immediately by hanging up without a word of explanation or even goodbye.
3. If your date passes the phone test, the first meeting should be scheduled to take place at the most expensive restaurant in town.
4. Send a spy to the restaurant appx. 30 min prior to the scheduled time to see in what vehicle your date arrives and carefully evaluate their driving skills.
6. Upon meeting your date at the restaurant, please check the fit and labels of their clothes and shoes.
7. Ask them to show you all their financial records and ask them how much money they brought with them.
8. Make sure they have enough money to pay for your meal or, at the very least, go for the ever-popular "Dutch Treat". If not, send them to the nearest ATM immediately.

If he or she has jumped through all of the above hoops from the one and only attempt they are allowed, and thereby satisfied all the important criteria, you can finally sit down at your table, take a sip of your beverage of choice, relax and start a pleasant conversation.

Earthly internet dating life is so deliciously good... Don't you agree?


Let me know how it all goes and I might introduce it at our next Dating Board Meeting on the Moon. Because at this stage we, the Lunatics, are completely clueless - we usually skip of the hoop jumping and try to understand that some people are more shy than others, or they may get a little nervous on the phone or even during the first few minutes of the first date with a stranger, so we simply try to cut them some slack instead of increasing the pressure, so as to minimize the potential awkwardness of socially inapt pauses and silences.


P.S. Those of you who took anything but the last paragraph of the above creation seriously, will have their Moon visas revoked. Your access to the Moon, as well as all flavors of Ice Cream, will be permanently denied! Serious considertaion is strongly advised before arriving at the appropriate decision for each individual earthy creature.

I am awkward on the phone but usually great in person. But I usually don't like to talk on the phone before I meet someone because I don't like the phone at first.