Speed Dating

its not exactly a personal issues thread and would likely get locked.
for lack of a clubbing/dating forum after hours is the best place.

I went speed dating once.

It was an interesting, though slightly bizarre experience, with 300 people in the same room all there to date.

Experiences are personal and I don't really like the phrase meat market; and I think anyone viewing the world that way is depressing to start with.

I might go again, though not because I view it as a serious way to meet someone special (women are everywhere and you're more likely to meet a kindred spirit doing something you really like), but more because it was possible to have fun, and it reminds me to make short conversations more interesting.

When the same questions:
- What do you do?
- How old are you?
- Where are you from?

Etc are asked, it gets repetitive, so if you innovate, you get a good opportunity to be more creative..

"I'm not from anywhere, I was born on the ship on the sea exactly between three national boundaries, so I suppose you could say I'm from the ocean..."

A few observations:

- Depending on where you sit, you get to talk to a limited range of girls, albeit for 3 minutes each. People were crammed together. You could clearly hear the conversations of the people next to you.

- I think it's a good way to meet people if you are in a new city with few friends.

- The only categorisation of people is that they are all within a broad age range, so you get to meet girls of all types from all walks of life.

- The speed-dates I had didn't lead to any dates, though I'm rather picky, although we did get the phone number of two girls, who we didn't call.

I think if you want to pull, a remarkable number of people who went to the nightclub afterwards seemed to get together.

Most of the girls only seem to go in large groups for a laugh and don't take it in anyway serious. And they all tend to sit next to each other... so you get about 4 or 5 girls in a row who all know each other and work in the same place and one is as boring as the next.

Anyway... I really don't need to pay good money to be rejected 30 times in one evening.