Right Up My Ali

The recent buzz in Baltimore is how hard it is to date in a small town.  Baltimore Magazine calls it a “Chinese fire drill” which to me doesn’t quite make sense.  Unless they’re referring to when a bunch of girls share a cab and some go to Mother’s and some go to Mad River.  A coworker blogged about making yourself date worthy which also doesn’t quite make sense to me.  I understand that you want to make yourself appealing to the opposite sex, like make sure you shower and put on some clean clothes, but really you want to make sure that you’re making yourself appealing to the right person.  Like how long can you put on an act?  Two dates? Three dates max?  Sooner or later the real you is going to come out, whether you’re boring as hell or you have really bad morning breath.

Having only lived here for a year I can attest that dating is quite interesting.  It’s no coincidence that the movie “He’s Just Not That Into You” was filmed here.  If you try and date someone, you’re going to meet at least one of their exes “by accident” and chances are the girl glaring at you from across Portside actually slept with the guy that’s buying you a drink.  If you decide to date someone seriously you better watch out because everyone and their mother is going to want to tell you about their past.  Where I come from, you find this out on your own!  Stay away from Facebook and G Chat to get the dirty dets and let the person show you themselves who they are.

We’re in our upper 20’s folks let’s be real!  I’m NO dating expert that is for sure but I’m pretty positive that there is someone out there for everyone and you don’t have to go looking for them, they’ll find you.