I would absolutely ask her out again. And then she’ll turn me down because I’m a pussy who can’t defend myself.
Fool of a Sasquatch!
Alex just INVITED you to ask her out again. And given that she was willing to risk death to keep you out of Purgatory, she’ll probably be willing to knock boots once she’s healthy enough.
And this isn’t one of those comic-booky threads anyway. I thought it clear from the OP that Alex only succeeded in saving you because of the element of surprise (and only acted as s/he did out of desperation).
Shucks, if a man risks his life to save mine, I’d not only be willing to take him out for dinner and drinks; I’d let him get to second base.
It was probably the thread about this guy: Man fakes knife attack to impress date.
Alex sounds like a catch. The kind of girl you could show off to your friends and take home to mom and dad. Yeah, I’m giving her a call.
Fair enough. To be honest, though, I’m not entirely sure if I’d be comfortable with how it would effect the power dynamic of the hypothetical relationship. No, that’s not right - it’s rather that I’m not sure how it would play with my own feelings of insecurity. I think I would feel that my manhood had somehow been compromised, and I don’t know what I would be able to do to restore it. After something like that, it probably doesn’t matter how many tires I change…
Although I could just decide to settle into a role as the weaker partner and let her dominate me for a while, if she’s up for that. I can get with that every now and then.
I want to know why Alex left her gun at home. That’s unaccaptable.
I wouldn’t - I’m grateful that she saved my life and all, but that’s a basis for good friendship, and doesn’t change the chemistry thing (and I don’t get turned on by violence, so I can’t see how her actions would affect the chemistry thing)
Perfect woman right there. Hell yes, she gets a second date.
I think in this hypothetical situation, I’d go out with Alex again. I definitely would if the attack hadn’t happened; that level of neutral “less chemistry” is not a feeling that leads me to decide no second chance, it was a one time evaluation and different then the first evaluation so I’d at least want a tie breaker.
My best real life relationships have had this period of “but there’s no chemistry” after the initial chemistry let up but before we became intimate emotionally, so I might have even viewed it as a good sign…
But the attack makes me skittish. I’d associate Alex with the thing that happened, through obviously no fault of Alex’s own, so I would still go on the date, but our long term possibilities are less likely than they would’ve been without the attack. Things like that scare me and create phobias. Heck, I’d probably be afraid to stop at gas stations for a while; that’d be awkward. Alex would have to drive to the next date. 
Yeah. I don’t even understand why this is a question. Fuck yeah I’d go out with her again.
In the fictional scenario, I just put in a change of address form to send my mail to the hospital room and I’m about to ask if Alex is ok with that.
If this were real life then I would know where I would be driving each day after work until Alex was released, and I’d at least have a damn good friend when it was all said and done.
No. I don’t want to date a woman who can kick my ass if she had half a mind to.
Yep, that’s what I based my fake attack hypothesis on. That and I have a naturally suspicious nature.
This post confuses me. You are a man, right? And I don’t think you are a gay man, unless I’m mistaken. Are you?
Definitely a second date. Saving my life is a turn on, I know because it happened before, thanks Sharon, though not as dramatically. Probably would worship at the “Altar” if she was into it.
We shall see from there
Capt
Definitely asking Alex out again and I’d be way more attracted than before.
I would jizz my pants at the sight of her. Seriously? She just did something most of your friends wouldn’t do for you and you ditch her? It’s not about violence. It’s not about badass. She risked her EXISTENCE. Fall for the sweet talking shitslingers if you want but this one held steady when the rubber hit the road. Of course IRL backbone is shown over a lifetime of commitment and the gas station blows up from a stray misfire and kills everyone but if the scenerio were true then it just exposed an enormous amount of character in one tiny instant. It doesn’t diminish me a bit to have a fighter by my side and knowing what’s worth fighting for is priceless.
Of course if she was bad at the bj she would be out no doubt. You have to have priorities.
“If I were dead and you alive and fighting for life, I would come back from the darkness, back from the pit of hell to fight by your side.” Hells yeah. Conan knows what I’m talking about.
Same here.
And speaking of androgynous names, I actually happen to be casually dating a girl named Alex. Short for Alexandria; the name causes no end of confusion among my friends, who keep forgetting that when I say Alex, I mean a woman.
I’m going to take a different tack and modify the situation to fit what Skald obviously intended. So I’ll change her physical appearance to be just all right (which also means she’s not really all that physically fit) and make her just a little bit stupid. So I’m really leaning towards not dating her again after that first date. Yeah, I think I’d at least give her another shot.
I would definitely be more attracted to her because it meant she put others lives in front of her own, but that’s not the reason I would give her another chance. It’s more a matter of what she deserves. People who do good things deserve to have good things happen to them. It’s just as much a disservice not to recognize a good action as it is not to call someone out for a bad action.
Good things don’t always happen to good people, but that’s not a desirable state. If it’s within my power, I try to make good things happen to good people. And I hope that, by doing so, I encourage other people to do the same.