"A first date is unpredictable by nature. Often, you're meeting up with someone you barely know, or have never met. Will the conversation sparkle or will it fall flat? Will they look like their picture? And what's their name again? It can be fun meeting someone new, no matter what the outcome. Yet it's hard not to get one's hopes up. Many have experienced that sinking feeling when reality falls dramatically short of expectations."
"We had a fantastic evening and hit it off extremely well, he says. We were enjoying a very nice extended goodnight kiss when a bird flew into the wall above and landed, dead, right in our faces. She decided that no matter how well our date went, it was a bad omen. She never returned any of my calls for a second date. Alas."
"He leaned forward, said something enthusiastically, and his partial denture flew out of his mouth across the table, landing perfectly in my spaghetti. He reached across and with his fingers retrieved his teeth, putting them back into his mouth without a hint of embarrassment or apology and continued talking. I never agreed to another lunch date with him, and thankfully, he was transferred within weeks of the oh so horrifying yet hysterical incident."
A first date can quickly shift from promising to disastrous because of unforeseen events or shocking behavior. One evening ended when a bird crashed into a wall and landed dead in front of the couple, causing one person to view it as an omen and cut off contact. A lunch date turned grim when the man's partial denture flew across the table and landed in the other's spaghetti; he casually retrieved and reinserted it, then kept talking. A supposedly gentle bike ride devolved into catastrophe when a truck ran over a participant's legs and midsection. Such incidents terminate any chance of a follow-up.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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