Weighing Your Options

So your date walks up to your door and rings your doorbell; you open and to your surprise when you open the door you get the shock of your life about your blind date. You notice that your blind date is a bit on the heavy side. You graciously give a smile, grab him or her by the hand and say hello. On the way out to eat, the conversation is delightful and you two seem to be hitting it off perfectly. You make it to your favorite restaurant and your date is the perfect gentleman by opening the door for you and intertwining your arm with his.

Once inside the restaurant, you notice that people are staring and it makes you a bit uncomfortable. You do your best not to let your date know that you have all of a sudden become uncomfortable with the looks. After being seated, the order is taken and you continue to enjoy the company that you are keeping, you both notice people at the other tables staring in your direction, what do you do?

(a) politely ask if your date desires to go some place else?

(b) stay and continue to enjoy the night?

(c) give the next couple at the other table a piece of your mind?

Let us switch it up a bit. How about all three?! Some people will get an attitude for staring and usually end up saying something to the other people. This in itself has such a liberating feeling, but if you do this, do this in a manner in which is intelligent at best. That's ONLY if you continue to get stares throughout the evening. Politely ask your date if he or she feels more comfortable going some place else. If your date declines this offer and says that he or she still wants to stick it out where you are and that person feels uncomfortable, that person is showing you how brave he or she is.

In light of the situation that you are being watched by others, without pretending, show the couple at the next table how good of a time that you are having with your date. You have to eat too. if you continue to get stares, kindly excuse yourself from your table (which I know is horrible dating etiquette), and politely walk over to the couple and kindly ask them not to stare because it is making you and your date feel uncomfortable and all you are trying to do is enjoy your evening. Okay, you're thinking, what if that doesn't work? Take a deep breath because it's going to get harder. Keep in mind people are rude when it comes to other people being "different" than they are. You rarely see people get loud just because of how a person looks; at that point the manager of the restaurant should step in and interject and calm the situation.

Smile and walk by to your date knowing that you tried to rectify the situation. By this time, your date will probably ask you if you want to leave and you'll say that you came here to eat and enjoy yourself with your date. You must know in your heart that you can still have a good time with that person no matter what size that person is because the people at the next table could have something wrong with them, and they not even know it. And hope for a second date. Your date will look at you as doing such a corageuos thing on your first date; knowing that you really didn't have to. But make sure that your date knows that you are not embarrassed by being with him or her. You just want that person to have a good time.

We don't live to eat-we eat to live. Enjoy what tastes good

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