Date #3: Vera Hotchick

“I’ll do what I can to help y’all. But, the game’s out there, and it’s play or get played. That simple.”

-Omar Little

Now that quote may be true for the drug game in Baltimore, but it’s not always that simple for the dating game in New York. Especially when that game involves seven dates in seven days.

I guess the hardest thing for me is figuring out if and when to take a date to that mythical next level. With a date every night, you would think that I would have it easier this week, but for some reason I feel like it’s harder. In the normal world, if you go on a date with a girl and you like her, you ask her out on another date shortly thereafter. In this world, before I can even figure out what I want to do, I am writing about it on the internet and then going out on a date with a completely new person! Oh, and living my life outside of 7d7d.

Enough about me. Last night, I was fortunate enough to meet my third consecutive lovely lady. She was really enthusiastic about the whole concept and was just looking to have some fun. She had even read the previous posts! Also, I got to talk about China again (she’s from Taiwan, so this was more legit) and show off my minimal Mandarin.

One thing that was particularly interesting to me about the date was finding out that despite working in publishing (after a variety of other interesting jobs), Vera was a passionate painter. I always find it encouraging to hear about people’s hidden talents and as Steve said in his posts, this is one of the better things about 7d7d. If you give people a chance to open up, they have plenty to say.

In conclusion for now, doing seven dates in seven days is a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it. I’m sure I’ll learn more about myself and I’d love to hear more about what the girls think. As a general question to get the ball rolling, can someone tell me why, even in this supposedly liberated age, it’s still so rare for girls to ask guys out?

@2 years ago