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Date shakin'

What to do with a date so they won't call you back

By Dana Severson
Date shakin'

Unfortunately, we’ve all found ourselves out on a date that simply defies our rationale. Sometimes it can be painfully obvious, possibly from the very first moment you set the date that you’re in for one hell of a night—and not in the good way.

But, you still have to come up with something to do. And not just anything, but something that’s somewhat tolerable, yet won’t, God forbid, rope the two of you into another date together.

So what the hell do you do with someone you’re just not into?

There’s one thing that both good dates, and dates you’re trying to make bad, have in common—the success is directly correlated to the location.

The “I’m not into you" date is no different. For a date like this to be truly successful, you need to take them someplace completely inappropriate. You don’t want to give them the wrong impression, right? Pick someplace where it’s next to impossible to talk, utterly disgusting, a total meat market and extraordinarily run of the mill.

If you can’t think of a place that meets all of these conditions, just pick a spot that suffers from one. You may opt for a dive like the CC Club, Mirror of Korea, Grumpy’s , Little Tijuana or almost any of your standard Chinese buffets.

Or you can try under-whelming your date.