Liquid courage required to date?
There are a lot of “social crutches” people tend to lean on in dating these days. Some people seem to think that they need alcohol to help them feel at ease. I think this is partly why a bar can be a bad place to meet someone for the first time. You don’t know if you are getting a really good “sober” representation of their personality (Let’s not forget beer goggles).
To be honest, drinking doesn’t always give you liquid courage. It can actually change your personality…for the worse. It’s amazing to meet people who have gone through life not realizing that when they drink too much their behavior is awful.
What is your drinking policy for dating? Do you date drinkers?
Do you limit your alcohol intake when you are on a date?
Has anyone ever told you that you behave differently when you have had a couple of drinks?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
3:56 pm
Celisea, when I copied and pasted their exchange and then translated it that pretty what she said word for word. That’s why I am wondering why the comment at her today. (kanye shrug)
Sassy Me :-)
January 27th, 2011
4:02 pm
That’s why I am wondering why the comment at her today.
This isn’t the first time…since I can remember reading LV that’s been the one constant. Why?…I don’t know…
czBrat
January 27th, 2011
4:02 pm
off topic vent —-> now that i’m back in property mgmt i’m reminded how annoying it is when the little raggamuffins get off the school bus and come charging into the office looking to raid the snacks we put out for prospective residents. smdh.
carry on.
AmazonRed™
January 27th, 2011
4:02 pm
Some people need more time to recover from being offended, Raqi.
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:03 pm
Raqi, That’s hardly enough of anything to get someone’s feathers ruffled.
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:06 pm
LV reminds me of that character on Gulliver’s Travels…
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:07 pm
Random – Ok, these coworkers are getting obssessed with this whole imaginary wedding thing. I am told that I have a visitor at the front, so I get up puzzled wondering who would be here to see me. I get up there but don’t see anyone out in the lobby…nor does the receptionist know what i’m talking about. So i dilly on back to my office. I look down and what do I see? A flyer from Macy’s with a couple on the front in a sweet embrace dressed in wedding attire. It’s a advertisement for 20% off the bridal registry….UM…????…
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:09 pm
@czB ~ breathe and smile, breathe and smile.
czBrat
January 27th, 2011
4:09 pm
um, slim, did i miss some news?
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:11 pm
@SlimNU ~ put the advertisement on the bulletin with a post-in saying, “Cool, I got the 20%, but whoever gave me this would you mind giving me the other 80%? If not, please stop!”
AmazonRed™
January 27th, 2011
4:11 pm
Slim – You coworkers have too much time on their hands. I’d start throwing that stuff in the trash.
Do YOU work at the call center?
czBrat
January 27th, 2011
4:11 pm
leggs, i want to lock the doors everyday when the bus pulls up just until we retrain the little monsters, but this company just won’t go for that.
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:11 pm
@czB ~ if anything you might miss SlimNU with smoking coming out her ears!
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:13 pm
these coworkers are getting obssessed with this whole imaginary wedding thing
Slim, I am betting on 3 months tops.
We wants to go in on this bet with me? Slim will married or engaged before summer. LOL
czBrat
January 27th, 2011
4:15 pm
Slim will married or engaged before summer.
uh oh. looks like there has been some movin & shakin up in here.
Frugal Chef
January 27th, 2011
4:17 pm
http://www.thefrugalchef.blogspot.com
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:20 pm
McFrugal, my hub is having to do all the cooking these days. You got any recipes fit for the occasional male cook. LOL
AmazonRed™
January 27th, 2011
4:21 pm
That’s hardly enough of anything to get someone’s feathers ruffled
I think it was the fact she butted in to the convo in the first place. Public as it was an everything….
czBrat
January 27th, 2011
4:22 pm
eeew, raqi. you just reminded me of that commercial where they pour a can of soup over a bowl of rice and call it dinner. LOL
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:22 pm
czBrat – NOPE, didn’t miss any news at all. Slim still has a vacancy on my ring finger and no previous ring tan lines either. No proposals…not even close. lol
Ared – Nope, don’t work at the call center either. Nice try tho
‘We wants to go in on this bet with me? Slim will married or engaged before summer’
Raqi – If I get married or engaged within the next few months, then that must mean some contraceptive was defective. Buddy recently opened up with accepting his “Love” feeling for me, so I seriously doubt a proposal is in tow anytime in the near future.
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:25 pm
LOL czBrat. Thankfully it has not gotten that. He is a pretty good cook but since we have married I have done 95% of the cooking.
He ain’t coming home making homemade pasta or nothing but he is keeping us fed. LOL
AmazonRed™
January 27th, 2011
4:26 pm
Raqi – Now you’re putting pressure on her too.
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:27 pm
‘You got any recipes fit for the occasional male cook’
Raqi – Yes I have one for you….pour cereal in bowl…add milk. Or boil 2 cups of water….place in block of hard noodles and cook till soft…pour in seasoning packet and Enjoy
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:27 pm
@czB ~ I can possibly see the rice and the soup, but had to frown when they did it with mashed potatoes.
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:29 pm
that must mean some contraceptive was defective
Would that be the only reason? He just may surprise you. He may get some of that liquid courage in him and yall wake up the next morning Mr. & Mrs. “Whatthehellhappenedlastnight?”
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:29 pm
@SlimNU ~ I have never had a bowl of Ramen noodles. Besides being cheap what is the fascination…never mind I answered my own question!
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:29 pm
‘you just reminded me of that commercial where they pour a can of soup over a bowl of rice and call it dinner’
czBrat – You didn’t think that was a good idea? (:lol:)
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:31 pm
LOL Slim now that is one menu I don’t have to worry about. He will go out and pick up something every night or pay his godmother to cook for us before he eats that.
I have a real meat and potato man on my hands.
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:32 pm
Raqi – We’ve had a “Whatthehellhappenedlastnight?” but that didnt include any nuptials…a morning calling Earl maybe, but no I Do’s….But it’s really this older lady that works in my dept that says, “I just feel it…it’s coming, I just know it”…so not sure if she had a dream or if she’s been talking to any burning bushes lately but she can’t give it a rest.
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:33 pm
Speaking of Chef Boyardee he is walking thru the door right now. He has Whole Foods bags in his hand so I know we aren’t eating Ramen Noodles.
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:35 pm
‘He has Whole Foods bags in his hand’
What time should I be there with my napkin tucked in my shirt and fork in hand?
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:35 pm
I think it was the fact she butted in to the convo in the first place. Public as it was an everything….
Yeah ARed…that might have push LV over slightly further than his normal stance.
I’m gonna say CONGRATS to Slim early…..CONGRATS TO YOU AND YOUR BETROTHED
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:35 pm
But it’s really this older lady that works in my dept that says, “I just feel it…it’s coming,
Yeah that’s the same thing my hub’s elderly aunt called and told me one day about us having another baby. I said she was crazy but some how a little soldier got thru during my transition of BCs. LOL
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:36 pm
I seriously need a snack
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:36 pm
I ate so much Chef Boyardee (rather pretended to eat it) growing up, his highness hasn’t graced my cabinets since I left my mother’s house (actually, even before leaving).
Raqi V
January 27th, 2011
4:37 pm
Slim, if he starts cooking right now dinner will be ready about 7:30pm. LOL He will use every pot in the kitchen to make baked pork chops, green bean casserole, cinnamon apples and potatoes. LOL
That’s what he says we are actually having.
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:38 pm
I used to by that for my kid when she was little…she just loved loved loved it…I couldn’t even stand the smell. She learned that habit for daycare. After around 9ish, I think she woke and realized, ummm this ain’t it. It was more so spaghetti-o’s and then beef ravioli
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:43 pm
I didn’t give my child anything made by Chef Boyardee…I couldn’t do it.
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
4:43 pm
Hated, hated beef ravioli!!!!
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:43 pm
Celisea – I will put that Congrats on ice for now…but I will defrost it in the case that Mrs. CoworkerCleo happens to ever be right.
Raqi – Well, I’m not saying I would be disappointed if she were right…but it does sort of freak me out a little, to finally be presented with something that I claim to want. I’ve never been proposed to, so I’m sure I’d probably pass out or just think it was a practical joke.
Speaking of Chef Boyrdee, i’ll eat some ABC’s & 123’s every once in a blue moon.
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:44 pm
Leggs – Some days I’d ask so what do you want for dinner and there it was, “spaghetti-oooo’s” I was sooooo happy when she got over that.
SlimNumeroUno
January 27th, 2011
4:45 pm
Leggs – I never liked ravioli either.
AmazonRed™
January 27th, 2011
4:48 pm
The ravioli is kind of gross, the Spagetti-os, kind of bland.
I like their lasagna tho. Still eat those in a pinch.
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:50 pm
My kid was weird…she LOVE collards (even as a tot) and fruit…to no end. Would NOT eat a happy meal nor a hot dog and still won’t eat a hot dog or even a homemade hamburger…she’s got to be mighty hungry to eat a hamburger. Usually it’s chicken or chicken fingers, wings (fried, stewed, baked…whatever), LOVES salad, used to eat for snack cut up boiled okra (in a bowl). If I buy chips or cookies or sweets she won’t eat any of it…NONE. Hot wings and fries is about the most junk food she’s going to do but she’s a pretty solid eater.
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
4:51 pm
I don’t like frozen foods but I like the Stouffer’s lasagna
AmazonRed™
January 27th, 2011
5:00 pm
Stouffers’s is good too.
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
5:00 pm
@Celisea ~ WOW, that’s great! I was disappointed when mine stopped liking mac n cheese…I knew she was “touched!” (Bah humbug)!
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
5:01 pm
Remember this:
A drunk mans words are a sober man’s thoughts.
Leggs
January 27th, 2011
5:03 pm
Nitey nite!
Celisea
January 27th, 2011
5:04 pm
Leggs – She’s a size zero…she ain’t gonna ever gain eating healthy foods…LOL She’s going to be slim but she’ll put on a bit more weight. I don’t even buy hotdogs cause after a couple months they get tossed…