The answers they give aren’t for a date; they’re for a huntress. They forgot to ask what shot would she use for different kinds of guns.
Mine would be very similar to alice’s.
I answered all but 1 ©. Your answer is better but unfortunately my answer is correct for me.
I think you’d make a great date! Yeah, I know I’m a girl and all, but even with your answers, I’d spend a day with you!
I answered all but 1 ©. Your answer is better but unfortunately my answer is correct for me.
I think you’d make a great date! Yeah, I know I’m a girl and all, but even with your answers, I’d spend a day with you!
Are you sure the quiz wasn’t to determine if you date badly, not that you’re a bad date?
All the ‘right’ answers above seem to be manipulative. The quiz seems to be asking, “How do you extract the most out of a date?”
Which makes it all kind of obnoxious.
I was wondering if perhaps the quiz was for much younger women. Do young guys like it if a woman acts like the “correct” answers above? I don’t know - it’s been a long time since I was 18 - perhaps that’s what you’re supposed to do?
Oops - that was a double post and I can’t figure out how to delete this one.
So I will tell a joke instead:
Q. Where do you find a turtle with no legs?
A. Right where you left it.
ba dum cha! As if I’m a bad date with material like that! 
If you’re really interested in a guy, and it seems like the feeling is mutual, never, EVER say (A). It’s an indicator that a “You’re a nice guy, but there was no chemistry” email will inevitably end up in my mailbox. It sounds like a polite rejection, and men will probably read that as “she really isn’t interested in meeting again” - you didn’t leave a door open for another chance at getting together.
It’s an indicator that you’re picky, picky, picky. Could ALL of those guys you met had some horrible flaw that made them undateable, or was it because they’re 5’ 11" and OMG the man you date MUST be six feet tall, and you’re not about to settle now considering how long you’ve been single, and that you’re a Very Special Person who deserves a wealthy drop-dead gorgeous man other women drool over, even though you’re otherwise average in many regards?
Also, if you’re too busy, you won’t have any time for him. Most men have dealt with the frustration of a perpetually busy girl, where arranging a date can be tedious thanks to her full social calendar. The feeling that men get is “If she can’t even make the time for me, let along a guy she likes, than I must not be that important to her.” If he suggests going out on Thursday night, and it’s normally your gym night, change your plans. It’s just one day. If you pick pilates, laundry, American Idol or Wednesday night Bible study over him, he’ll think he’s a low priority in your mind.
Would you tolerate it if the man you were with kep smiling flirtatiously at the waitress on a date? Probably not. One time, when I was on a date, the woman I was with knew the waiter. She greeted him with a hug and a kiss on the lips. Dealbreaker. It was very disrespectful to me, and signaled to me that her attention was already focused elsewhere.
Interesting. K, next time I’ll go directly to the tonsil hockey.
I am both picky and busy, and I’m not one to lie about such things, so I guess this one will have to stay.
Wow. Good thing I didn’t pick that answer, huh?
Well, Alice, my responses were exactly the same as yours. I think that might explain alot about me and my lack of dates. 
Anyway, sounds to me like the quizmaker is screwed up.
So what do you suggest we say when we get that question? I’ve heard it fairly frequently, and I don’t have a good answer. None of the reasons you’re implying are applicable in my case. True, I usually get it from my married male friends, who tend to compare me favorably with their wives, either as another like them or in the “cool, she actually does stuff” regard.
Although I suppose I **am ** picky, just not in a conventional sense.
I don’t know where this quiz came from (and am too apathetic about it to care) but on my drive in this morning I was reflecting on it and it reminds me of a scene in the underappreciated movie Love & Sex (which stars the astonishingly hot Famke Janssen who is even more beatiful when she’s not all tarted up) as a writer for some chick pub who, when given the assigment to write one of those standard articles on How To Please Your Man With _____ Sex Act", writes a frank article on it that is totally unacceptible for publication, 'cause it’s too honest about what’s really going on.
This quiz reminds me of the same–it’s designed to reinforce this idea about what you should to do bait your hook and follow “The Rules”, et cetera. (And not to direct my invective in only one direction; AskMen.com is a perfect example of the compliementary attitude for guys.) I really wouldn’t place much credence in it; if you act like a manipulative, scheming bitch, then you’re going to attract guys who (bizarrely, at least to me) like manipulative, scheming bitches, and then you’ll disappoint when you’re not that. (I’m assuming here, of course, that alice_in_wonderland is not, in fact, a manipulative, scheming bitch, an opinion about which I feel relatively confident.)
On the other hand, there must be good money in putting together these kinds of things, and it’s trivial work for someone with even a modicum of literary talent. I’m sure I could put together a perl routine that could actually generate these things automagically. Heck, I should do that…it would make a nice sideline. 
Stranger
I think the question’s a bit rude, so I’d either respond to it in a very noncommittal way (“Oh, it’s not that unusual, is it?”) or with dedicated snark (“Well, I’m not, really. But the restraining order came through last week, so…”). I guess I’m still young enough that I don’t get asked that question.
Note to self: Come up with snarky response that doesn’t imply stalkerdom.
**5. Over dessert, your date asks, “So why are you single?” How do you respond? **
“I just got out of prison.”
“That damn sex-offender registry shows up on Google, that ain’t right!”
“My last three boyfriends died mysteriously, do have some more of that bitter-almond marzapan.”
“Kids today have no appreciation of the importance of racial purity.”
“I’ve only recently become a woman.”
Good answers, all. Actually, I usually answer (if asked this rather rude question) “Don’t you mean what’s wrong with me?” and offer a big smile. Sadly, that was not one of the options listed.
Oh, and Stranger I would totally do your quiz…
Was this quiz written by any number of current young music stars who are all sleeping around on each other (if you believe the songs)? Maybe you’re just not playa enough, Alice. (It always amuses me when I, a 40 year old white Canadian lady, use Ebonics. Nomesane?)
Trick question: lunch isn’t a date. It’s a social triviality, at best the briefest of inspection tours. I take my aunties to lunch, I go with my male co-workers and take my turn picking up the tab. I take ex-girlfriends and old school buddies. Lunch is never a date. Lunch is just not remotely romantic unless it’s like a post-sex fresh-fucked-glow at-the-Sunday-morning-cafe situation. I’ll have the links and the patties, merci garcon. The Correct Answer, though the concert tickets are a bad idea, is B.
Correct answer is “C” if you want him to kiss you, “A” if not. I agree with a previous poster in that as soon as I heard “A” I wouldn’t call again. I’d be open to receiving calls, but wouldn’t initiate anything.
I’d answer the rest like you did though, so whatever.
So, the perfect date is a slut.
Who knew?
:dubious:
I would have answered the same, so count me in as a “Bad Date”. The only possible exception would have been about the cell phone. I’d have it on, but on vibrate, in case Hallboy decided to do something irresponsible (or a miracle occured and he called to tell me his homework was complete) while I was out painting the town red. Even then, I would have excused myself and gone to the ladies room to return the BRIEF call.
I’ve totally been on lunch dates. Picnic in the park. Eat some cheese. Drink some wine. Have sex in a shrubery. That’s totally a date.
However, it is precisely because the concert tickets are a Bad Idea that B is an incorrect answer. The object of a first date is not just to have fun, but to get to know the other person. You can’t get to know someone in a venue where you can’t even talk to one another.
I’d’ve answered every question exactly as alice did. The “correct” answer for #3 is so offensive that it’s not even worth dissecting. And if I answered #4 the way they suggest, it’d be no freaking wonder I’d have to be asking for a kiss at the door at the end of the date! My Gawd – how do they figure that “one-upping” a guy on the first date with regard to how your ex treated you is actually a good thing? It’s appalling and uncouth.
I just don’t even know what to say about their “correct” answer to #5. Do they really think it’s the best idea to speak badly about past boyfriends to someone you’re trying to impress? Not only does badmouthing people (even if not named specifically) reflect extremely poorly on you, but you also don’t want a potential future boyfriend/spouse to entertain the idea that the bums and idiots you’ve managed to have as boyfriends says something about your taste in men. Maybe it does, but for heaven’s sake don’t give him a chance to even contemplate it.
And the idea that it would ever be appropriate, under any circumstance, to openly flirt with someone while on a date with someone else, or to take a phone call in the middle of a meal with someone, is so utterly without class that it boggles the mind that anyone would include those answers on a quiz as anything other than the obvious wrong answer that the quiz-taker is not supposed to choose.