# First dates and first impressions...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-dates-and-first-impressions/717515>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-dates-and-first-impressions/717515 "2015-04-12T21:02:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-dates-and-first-impressions/717515/21 "2015-04-13T20:22:03Z")

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> [@Leaper](#):
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> When we met, we were both nervous, and obviously so, but I was noting various… personal habits on the other side of the table - small things, like talking while eating, and not looking me in the eyes as much as expected (being nervous, and having already expressed how hot I was), and, I feel a little ashamed to mention this, a laugh that grated on my ears a bit at times.

Well, how did it go _other than_ those surface things? Did you have a good back-and-forth conversation? Did you have stuff to talk about? Did she make _you_ laugh, whether grating or otherwise?

If the eating and the laughing were so distracting that you couldn’t even think about those other things, then yeah, it’s probably best to quit. If you liked her otherwise, then hell, give it another shot.

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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-dates-and-first-impressions/717515/22 "2015-04-13T22:28:26Z")

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Well, I was leaning towards a second anyway, just to see, but it was… Okay? I guess? I was the less nervous, it seems? Besides the personal habits, it did reinforce a couple of impressions I got (the over enthusiasm and that we may be a tad took much alike in personality), but nothing straight out gross or memorable.

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