# keeping a girlfriend when asked tough questions **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-a-girlfriend-when-asked-tough-questions/501774 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [July 3, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-a-girlfriend-when-asked-tough-questions/501774 "2009-07-03T01:59:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 151
### Author: ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall) #### Post date: [November 17, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-a-girlfriend-when-asked-tough-questions/501774/151 "2009-11-17T17:10:27Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Taste in music is important but _don’t_ be a snob about it. If she likes Dave Matthews, try to find something good to say about Dave. This reminds me of a funny story in my own dating history that I know would be entertaining to the SMDB, don’t know exactly where would be the _best_ place for it, and I realize this thread probably isn’t it, but it provides a perfect segue: This takes place in the days before the Internet (well, I was on, but I was an early adopter), when dinosaurs roamed the earth and hookup sites were done by phone. I was on one of those and found a lovely woman whom I enjoyed talking to. She mentioned in one of our conversations before our first meeting that she liked country music, I enjoy it as well and filed it away in my head. We finally got together for our first meeting, and I noticed that she had nice red hair (how could I not? I’m always a sucker for a redhead!) I figured I’d use my knowledge of country music to good use, as her red hair reminded me of Reba Macintyre, and I wanted to impress her by telling her so. However, for some reason, what came out of my mouth was that she looked like [Rita MacNeil](http://images.google.com/images?q=rita%20macneil) (Google images link) - suffice it to say that she does NOT look like Rita Macneil, and that was the last I ever saw of her. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-a-girlfriend-when-asked-tough-questions/501774)._