It’s funny, I was on an airplane recently and they play episodes of television shows. They play shows that you never really watched (but that maybe you would have watched if you spent all your nights home watching television — which none of you should be doing if you are trying to meet people).
Anyway, during that flight I caught a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother. There was something great on one of those episodes that was very funny. I would love to take credit for the idea, but of course I can’t.
On the show Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris), who happens to be gay, plays “the stud.” He plays a guy who is kind of a player.
In one episode he did something he calls “the lemon law.” The lemon law is when you go out on a date with someone and after two minutes you can say “lemon law” and end the date. He actually went out on some dates on the show where he “lemon law-ed” his date.
While this was all very funny, I think there might also be something to this idea. I’d like to come up with my own version of “the lemon law” called “The Two Minute Warning.”
Think about it. How many times have you gone out on that blind date and you just knew the person wasn’t for you. The person was supposed to look like a cross between Sharon Stone and Deborah Harry, and she actually looked like cross between Big Foot and Sandy Duncan.
Whatever the reason, you know in the first two minutes that you are just wasting your time with this person. You know you have absolutely no chemistry with this person.
Now, I know some of you are going to get very upset and think, “Well you’ve got to give people a chance etc etc etc.” All of that is wonderful, and I agree that you do need to give people a chance. We’ve all, however, been on dates with people we’d like to lemon law or call a two minute warning.
Do you think maybe we could start something wherein all blind dates would be on Tuesdays or something, and on all Tuesday dates you can institute the two minute warning? The two minute warning would allow you in the first two minutes of a date to say something like, “Look, I’m not quite sure about you. You’re not quite sure about me. If we don’t like each other, we can two minute warning each other.”
Maybe we can get this idea to spread. Having an escape clause on a blind date is something that could certainly spread.
In fact, I know how many of you have escaped from dates by doing ridiculous things like paging themselves or going to the bathroom and emailing themselves. Then you sit there pretending your phone is vibrating and telling your date, “Oh my God. My dogsitter just threw up.”
I mean, people will do some really ridiculous stuff just to get out of a bad date. So maybe we should come up with a better way too end these kind of bad dates. There just might be something here.
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Hey David,
There is an app for the iphone that allows you to set up a call and then you simply repeat what the prompts say and you are clear and free!
By the way, as I was reading your previous blogs today, I began to think of all you do for everyone who comes through your page. You actually take the time to help people who seriously have problems approaching women. You have made this your career and as a result have given men the courage to go out there and be confident. Your stuff isn’t hidden like De’Angelo’s stuff. It’s absolutely free on this blog. Thanks man!
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This is why speed dating is the right idea…just wrong people!
MAC–gosh…there really is an app for everything! Maybe we should all come up with apps for dating. What would all of you add as dating apps??
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An app that listens to your conversation and vibrates silently when you’re about to say something stupid! :0)
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David
When they say “THE TRUTH HURTS” its painful the realization of it…yestday i was in excruciating pain and agony observing everyone around me…..there was a blog u made awhile ago about people acting like zombies out in public, i thought it was weird u made that blog but i fully acknowledged it yesterday
yesterday i spent quality time with my aunt(my moms sister)
we went to the whole food store to eat there,during the time i payed attention to every individual there they all semmed lifeless,nobody was speaking and had a despressing, bitter look on there faces
then later on that night i went to the mall to do some x-mas shopping, it was the same thing there…every store i walked in the shoppers seemed dead….there was a cute girl i saw there but i kinda scared to talk to her becuase she looked pissed off
that blog u made logically kicked me in the ass…..why are we like this??
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Todd–great app idea! Come to our bootcamps and we will do that for you live:)
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LOL Todd!!!
It’s better if we break it down for you after your talk… otherwise you’d never learn!
We want you to trust in your own instinct in doing the right thing because most of the time, what you say can’t be that bad.
Most of the “wrong” things you could ever say could be recovered… but it’s about how you say it… and how you affect her emotionally that’s important.
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