You met through an app, a website or IRL – and the moment has arrived for the big first date.
As has that other moment you weren’t expecting: the sudden and powerful realisation that this person is NOT for you.
At all.
And now you’re wasting time.
Because out of some insane British notion of not wanting to come across as rude (to a person you’ll never see again) you’re pretending to listen to them as you plan your escape in your head, nodding at moments you hope coincide with pauses that require your vague acknowledgement.
So, for those moments of realisation where you have a very sudden allergic reaction to another… Read the full story