# Lawyers are terrible on blind dates. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482 "2020-01-16T00:36:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/1 "2020-01-16T00:36:15Z")
In a restaurant, having supper by meself, at a nice restaurant. Woman is seated at a nearby table. Asks for water. Clear she’s waiting for someone. Then hé arrives. Late. Starts talking politics, about Justin and the Liberals. Then he moves on to the articling course For some reason, she sounds interested. Or she’s being polite. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/2 "2020-01-16T00:37:17Z")
Now we’re onto foreclosure law. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/3 "2020-01-16T00:39:27Z")
Go sit at their table and ask for some free legal advice? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/4 "2020-01-16T00:40:51Z")
Now he’s talking about travelling. Much better ice-breaker! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/5 "2020-01-16T00:45:29Z")
Fifteen minutes in, before he asks her about what she’d like from the menu. Plus, Doug Ford. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/6 "2020-01-16T00:51:33Z")
Who knows? Maybe it’s a weird job interview. But seems too upscale a restaurant and time of day for that. Plus, he was late. Now we’re onto his undergrad, banks, and bank regulation. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/7 "2020-01-16T01:04:47Z")
Is she talking? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/8 "2020-01-16T01:17:53Z")
Jackson Browne, [Lawyers in Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxyjA-CaPYY) > [@](#): > > Last night I watched the news from Washington, the Capitol > The Russians escaped while we weren’t watching them > Like Russians do ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/9 "2020-01-16T01:32:04Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Is she talking? A bit, but couldn’t hear what she was saying because she was facing away from me. Seemed to encourage him, though. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/10 "2020-01-16T01:37:22Z")
When I left, he was talking criminology. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/11 "2020-01-16T01:53:04Z")
Maybe she fell asleep? Or starved? ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/12 "2020-01-16T02:01:26Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > When I left, he was talking criminology. You LEFT? Do you care nothing for our entertainment? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/13 "2020-01-16T02:22:00Z")
Kent, you get down to that restaurant asap. Take dictation until VOW gets there with the tape recorder, I’ll be there in fifteen in my waiter costume with a micro-drone. After we post the conversation here, we’re going viral with this. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/14 "2020-01-16T02:36:07Z")
An old joke I heard was someone tried to set their friend up with a lawyer and their friend said ‘why would I want to date someone who argues for a living’. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/15 "2020-01-16T02:36:35Z")
I hate it when dates go viral. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/16 "2020-01-16T02:46:56Z")
So he talks politics, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party, the articling course, foreclosure law, travelling, Doug Ford, his undergrad, banks and bank regulation, and criminology. Yep, those are the topics to discuss on a blind date. What do you bet she never goes out with him again? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/17 "2020-01-16T03:22:47Z")
Perhaps she was a commercial affection provider? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/18 "2020-01-16T03:56:05Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > I hate it when dates go viral. It’s worse when they end up with viruses. :eek: **OP** , were you still in skool when you started dating the Mrs? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/19 "2020-01-16T04:09:04Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > An old joke I heard was someone tried to set their friend up with a lawyer and their friend said ‘why would I want to date someone who argues for a living’. Because, in my experience, that means they are sick of it by the end of the day. I fucking HATE having to fix computers or answer computer questions when not on the clock. Anyone who takes work home and cant shut up about it is usually quite insufferable regardless of their profession. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/20 "2020-01-16T04:28:43Z")
I hope she had the bisque. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482.md?page=2)