Activity #6: Determine if every activity on the date is being used to armchair psychoanalyze you.
Published by Kyso Kisaen April 29th, 2007 in Punkass!According to MSN’s five ways to scope out your date, my fiance and I do not love each other:
Activity #5: Go for a drive together
The next time your date offers to drive you somewhere, pay attention to how they react on the road. “Driving is very, very revealing,” says body language expert Patti Wood (pattiwood.net). “Years ago, I was on a first date with a man who’d turn left at yellow lights, and take lots of risks on the road. That told me he was a person who would always live a little on the edge.” Other insights from Wood: Lane-changers will probably always be on the lookout for someone better-looking, smarter, or richer than you. Picky parkers who always want to go around one more time to see if they can snag a closer spot probably have problems with commitment. Herky-jerky drivers who accelerate and brake so quickly they leave your stomach queasy may have poor sense of pacing in all areas of life. Plus, if you’re driving, see how they handle it—nagging that you should slow down, speed up, or otherwise do things differently is a sign this person probably won’t love you just the way you are (starting with your bad driving).
On the one hand, any time we drive together there is non-stop bitching from the passenger’s seat; each of us is convinced that the other will kill us with his/her reckless driving. On the other hand, while I have trouble committing to people, I will happily take the farthest, most isolated parking space in the lot.
Nevermind, then, I guess we’re OK. MSN, you suck!
What if your date is just a mediocre driver, and actually epitomizes everything you are looking for in a life partner, but you turn down a second date and go your seperate ways because you applied some pop pseudo-psychology BS you read on MSN to his/her driving skills?
Oh well. Better luck next life. Oh wait…
That is the stupidest crap I’ve ever read. Psychoanalysis is pure BS, but even Freud would have wanted to punch the author of that dating article.
Not precisely a news flash that corporate news — not just MSN, hehe — sucks ass with stupid fucking trivial stuff.
Still, it’s amusing to see the number of ways they can be stupid and insulting.
What if he doesn’t even drive? How do you find out if he’s a weirdo… oh I suppose if he doesn’t drive that already means he is one.. right?
Picky parkers who always want to go around one more time to see if they can snag a closer spot probably have problems with commitment.
You should dump people who do this, but not because they have committment issues. No, it’s much worse than that. People who do this are the kind of people who would rather drive around looking for a parking spot than just park somewhere and get over it. Habits don’t get more annoying than that.
Yeah, and they’re probably the same type of people who can never decide what movie/bar/restaurant to go to.. those people drive me crazy!
Analogy = reality, once again. If I can make a connection between one activity and another in my head, then someone who performs the first activity ipso facto must perform the second.
People who take the bus are philanderers! Anyone who rides a tricycle is a pedophile! Guys who fly dirigibles are into blow-up dolls and/or are comic book villains from the 1940s! This could go on for days.
you are teh win, sir.