So, you’ve been harassed for the last month about going out with your coworker’s cousin’s best friend and finally ran out of excuses why you could. This may be a great person who you will love meeting or it could be the most horrific and boring experience of your life. Well, before you consider stabbing your fork into your hand as a way out. Here are some less dramatic ways to escape from the “Blind Date from Hell.”
The Scheduled Emergency Phone Call
This is a classic escape plan. This plan only works however, if you have met the “date” in a public place and have your own transportation back to your home. In this plan, you would call a friend or family member and explain that you are going on a blind date. You would then ask them call you on your cell phone at a predetermined time and “check in” on you. This gives you two options. First, if you wish to continue the date, you should excuse yourself to the bathroom to let your “savior” know that things are going well and their services are not needed. However, if things are going badly, here is your opportunity for an easy guilt-free escape. However, be wary of this approach as your date may already be aware of how it works.
The Friend that Stops By
This is not so much a classic exit plan, but it will also do the trick. With this plan, you call a friend and set up a predetermined time for friend to “drop in” on your date. If the date is going well, then you politely scoot your friend along their way. If however, the date is going poorly, you friend can be there to spice it up or give you an out if needs be, by reminding you of a previous engagement that you had forgotten about.
The Limited Date
This plan begins in the meeting/set up process. When you set up the time and place to meet. You should casually mention that you have other plans later, but that you could meet him/her earlier for the date. If the date goes well, you excuse yourself to make and phone call and cancel these fake plans. However, if the date does not go well, you have an out to rush off to your other plans.
The Sudden Illness
This escape plan only works if you have the patience to make it all the way through dinner. After finishing your meal, if your date suggests an after dinner activity, such as a movie or after-dinner drinks, you become suddenly sick. This only works for internal sicknesses, such as a stomach flu or the like. However, if you see that the date is going badly, you may want to plan for this escape by excusing yourself to the bathroom several times of the course of the meal.
The Forced Bail Out
Finally, this can be the most difficult to pull off as you don’t know this person well enough to know what truly offends them. However, there are a few things to try that may “force” your date to bail out on you. First, you can go through every relationship you have ever been in. Talking about your exes usually a great way to turn a date off. Also, chewing with your mouth open and other poor table etiquette can be a deterrent.
Some final thoughts on blind dates in general…
Finally, honest is usually the best policy. However, sometimes a little white lie is easier. Before you set up you strategy for the quick getaway, you should take into consideration how you met this person. Also, ask yourself, if you will ever run into this person again. If the answer is yes, you may want to choose a plan that doesn’t involve a huge, elaborate lie that you will have to remember later.A lot of times if the writing is on the wall, both parties can read it and neither will be offended by call the date off short. But then again there are those people that just can’t read it. In this case, you should try as best you can to let the person down easily.
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