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^ guess I've just been lucky so far..... I prefer more relaxed dates maybe? As I say it's never been a problem for me but I do feel like an uncivilized brute all of a sudden
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It's a bit extreme to turn your phone off during a date. Anyone who demands that strikes me as more than a little insecure and an attention freak.
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When a conversation is really flowing, I hate to have it interrupted by a phone call that could just as easily be handled a few hours later. Heck, sometimes I turn off my phone when I'm alone, watching a good television show!! Maybe it's because my brain isn't good at multi-tasking? |
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if i was ever in that position id probably put my phone on silent, i would think it would be rude to get into fiddling on my phone while im meant to be getting to know someone...
but then ive been on 1 date in my entire life and that was fairly expensive..and crap ...and then no one remotely important would call me anyway probably just a friend texting me and asking if id screwed it up yet dunno..thats just me, id find it a little rude if i was trying my best to talk to a girl and she starts texting..id presume she would be texting her friends saying this dates shit now im starting to think my concept of a date is wrong! good thing im not going on any..theres more to this than i thought! |
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^ Exactly Phool
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I think a fair compromise re mobile phones is to put it on silent and check it (for important stuff only) at opportune moments like visits to the little boys/girls room.
Like Diplodocus said if my mum phoned at eleven at night that would be so out of the ordinary that i would want to know whats up asap and i think thats fair and reasonable. Anyway.... whats a date? |
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It's the demanding tone of your post that gets me. I'm sorry but if a woman that I don't really know, that I am going on a first date with to see if I even like her started out like this then I just wouldn't want to get to know her. If she's going to get that het up about my phone going off it's only going to get worse! Talking on the phone about work or something else unimportant I can understand. As you say everyones expectations are different but for me a date should be fun and enjoyable. And I'm fine with holding doors open, pleases and thank you's. I'd even throw myself in front of a moving vehicle and shield you with my body, but I wouldn't bother if you got all grumpy about my phone going off |
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^ "As you say everyones expectations are different but for me a date should be fun and enjoyable."
Yes everyone's expectations are different. For me a date or even an outing with a friend stops becoming fun and enjoyable when the phone comes out. For me it's modern manners like eating with your mouth open or dribbling or picking your nose - it's just not done. From a Guardian article on modern manners: "I turn to the more recent Debrett's New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners, which furnishes a 'rather elegant' solution to the problem: 'leave [the mobile] switched on at the reception desk of a restaurant or with the head waiter'. I imagine myself being called away from a billowing soufflé only to be offered life insurance... ...The answer is clear. Unless you're expecting a birth or a death imminently, the only acceptable thing to do is to switch the bloody thing off and stick it in the cloakroom." |
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I'm dealing with a low-probability two-level hypothetical case here: 1) that I would actually have a date, and 2) that someone would actually have a need or desire to call me. Both rather unlikely. |
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From Debretts' Guide to Modern Etiquette.
http://www.debretts.com/etiquette/ro...etiquette.aspx For romantic succcess, follow our tip dating tips...
I have been lucky in that all the dates I went on last year met the above checklist and having just read it I think that it is a good checklist for men who want to date me. |
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Never leave dating checklists on the table in full view. Your date should never feel second-best to a piece of paper. |
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So elligible women take note! And You can tell it's out of date though, as it didn't even mention giving the reach around. You can't consider yourself as having good ettiquette if you don't |
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So you don't like it? Well that's ok because I don't much like your attitude of insisting on having it switched on. So its highly unlikely that we would date in the first place isn't it? lol. It takes all sorts, and surely the point of dating is to establish these things (both at the date and during the build up beforehand). We clearly have fairly opposite views on this issue and we both feel strongly about it, so we would not date. End of. Quote:
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I think when we did go to the cinema etc, it was after we were a couple, so I don't think that counts, does it? If someone started flicking bogeys at me? I think, you mucky pig, I'd not be impressed lol |
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Seems we are in the minority though |