Blind dates can be pretty funny. It is a bizarre social situation that can actually turn out to be rather interesting. Provided you go in with the right mindset - that the chances of this actually turning into something beyond the single date are about 1% - there's nothing to be tentative about. Go out for a beer or two and shoot the breeze, see what they're all about. Even if it's disastrous, you'll have a brand new, probably hilarious story to tell.
I remember one instance a few years ago in which one of my old roommates went on a blind date. Some co-worker set him up with a family friend or something... Anyway, they went out, and he mentioned he liked cars - huge mistake. Apparently, all this girl wanted to talk about for the next 2 hrs was suped-up asian street-racing cars/bikes and the corresponding rave scene. If you knew my roommate, you would see the irony inherent in this conversation (think: throwback greaser type, drives a '57 chevy, covered in tattoos, about the furthest thing from that scene as you could ever find.)
Anyway, we found him several hours later at home, in front of the TV, 11 beers into a Pil cube he picked up on the way home, mumbling about how he needed it "to dull the pain". Serendipitously, the 3rd roommate and I had picked up a cube as well on our way home... Thus began one of the most hilarious nights ever in that house, none of which would have been possible without the impetuous provided by the sour blind date.
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