{"id":391,"date":"2007-02-14T04:17:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/14\/things-i-should-have-said-dating-edition-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:09:30","slug":"things-i-should-have-said-dating-edition-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Things I Should Have Said, Dating Edition (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Valentine’s Day, this is a follow-up to one of my most popular posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CASE 1: Flinty fortysomething executive type – let’s call her “Lynnette”. Kicks off a conversation with “I tend to be too direct”. As she’d only been divorced less than a year, after nearly twenty years of marriage, I expressed some concern – I’ve been bitten by that whole “rebound” bug too many times. This brought on a litany of pique, the upshot of which was her contention that, despite conventional wisdom, plenty of research, and oodles of my own personal experience, she really was <\/em>an emotionally-available, completely-recovered\u00a0outlier to reality.<\/p>\n

WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: “Er, what you call “Direct” most of us call “rude and self-absorbed. And I don’t think you’re nearly as squared away as you think you are. Check please…”<\/p>\n

CASE 2: Cute, if somewhat way-too-thin-for-my-tastes accountant. Let’s call her “Ann”.<\/p>\n

After two fairly nice dates, a phone call. “I’m narrowing down my list of guys to [names another guy she’s also been going out with]. Sorry”.<\/p>\n

WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: “Are you Paula, or Randy? Because I do a much better Simon…”<\/p>\n

CASE 3:\u00a0 “I am crazy about vampires”<\/p>\n

WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: [clattering of chair, cloud of dust as I ran for door].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Valentine’s Day, this is a follow-up to one of my most popular posts. CASE 1: Flinty fortysomething executive type – let’s call her “Lynnette”. Kicks off a conversation with “I tend to be too direct”. As she’d only been divorced less than a year, after nearly twenty years of marriage, I expressed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}