My nephew went out on a first date the other night and he and the girl got to talking about bikes. He told her that he wanted to get an old beater just for riding around the city and she said, “Oh no, don’t do that! You should get something sturdier. What if you got hit by a car?”
Anything to be said in her defense? I couldn’t come up with much and he kind of, um, wrote her off.
First-date jitters? I shudder to think what kind of silliness I might have said on my various first dates.
Well, it was a first date and she was probably nervous and not thinking. The fact that she even cared enough to comment something like that shows her moral fiber. While I can totally understand him writing her off if she says stuff like this a lot…I live with 3 blondes and I have learned to just overlook these kinds of things as par for the course. The only one I really rag on my husband about is his insistence that Mars is closer to the sun than Earth – he proved this “fact” to me by saying “but it’s hotter than Earth – why do you think they call it ‘the Red Planet’?” It took me pulling out my son’s science book to get him to come to grips with the fact that Mars is actually red. I still love him, though.
When she said he should get something sturdier maybe she meant he should get a car instead of a motorcycle.
But they were talking about bicycles… dear oh dear.
This is how I interpreted the comment by her actually too.
Only because I’d probably say something similar to what she said, but I KNOW what I would be trying to say. Which is- “get a car instead!” :smack:
In my experience, a comment like that would not be enough to write off a female for. It must have been something else.
Dumb comments are a sort of sine qua non on first dates.
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Let me join RoOsh and Little Nemo in saying that is how I interpreted it also.
I saw nothing in the OP to indicate they were talking about bicycles, but even if they were I don’t see how this would preclude her from thinking that a car would be safer. I think bicycles in city traffic are just about as dangerous as motorcycles.
I wouldn’t begin to think about dumping her over this.
If you dump every one because they say/said something dumb, you’re bound to end up a lonely old man. If you happened to find someone smarter then you, better hope they don’t hold the same philosophy.