How to Survive a Blind Date

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"Way too may Survivor episodes, but how to survive a blind date. This is Dr. Paul, author of "Boomer Girls: A Boomer Woman's Guide to Men and Dating," and host of Ask Doctor Paul. How to survive a blind date? We've all been there. It does work in the following way. You definitely have to have a friend, a wing person. A person who will call you at an appropriate time, "my mother is ill." That works. "I need to go where? "Oh, good heavens, my son has been in an accident?" God forbid. There are many, many techniques to use. You can survive it though, by going through the blind date, being courteous and doing something that's very, very public. By public, I mean go to a place where there are a lot of people. "Oh, let's go window shopping." I guarantee you, they won't come back. I also can tell you that if you go to a very public place, it's loud, nice and loud; nobody can talk to you that way. So, surviving a blind date is not only a matter of escape, it's also a matter of technique. If you go to a place that's loud, you go to a public place, you're not going to have to put up with whatever annoyance you may have with this person you're now with. So that's how to survive a blind date. This is Dr. Paul. May all your fantasies of today be your realities of tomorrow."