Let's take a vote! - Tipping Etiquette

Let's say you take a girl on a date to a full service restaurant, your waitress is on point, after sitting there for an hour and a half, the total bill for both of you (story coming soon) comes to $6.94.

How much would you tip?

Send me a message or post a comment!

I Want to Marry You Cookies

My friend just came across this recipe, maybe I will have better luck if I start making these for everyone I date!

View the original post, she has funny notes: I want to marry you cookies

1 cup butter
1 cup dark brown sugar (may add up to 1/4 cup more if desired)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups flour
1 cup uncooked rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup chocolate chips (dark is recommended)

DIRECTIONS
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat until melted. Remove from the heat.
Add the dark brown sugar and granulated sugar and stir until sugars are incorporated and smooth. Chill the mixture for 10 minutes.
Remove from the refrigerator and stir in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla.
Add the flour, oats, baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and cinnamon and mix together.
Stir in the white chocolate chips and chocolate chips.
Roll by hand into 24 medium-size balls or use a scoop, and place on a light-colored cookie sheet.
Chill for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. 

Remove the cookies from the refrigerator and bake for 12 to 14 minutes.

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Lessons from "The Bachelorette" JoJo - Week 1

1 - Always check under the beard/mustache/mask
2 - Guys can be just as catty (or worse) as girls
3 - If you are going on reality TV, you should watch old episodes first
4 - Dont trust the guy who gets naked on the first night
5 - guys who dump their girlfriends to go on reality TV are definitely not there "for the right reasons"

Don't be a Serial Killer... or a Stalker

Continuing with his overbearing attempts to contact me, this was in my Facebook messages.   He might thing girls look high maintenance but I the over zealous attempts to contact me makes him look controlling. 

Hi! My name is (Guy's name here). I saw your profile online... and being a "sleuth", I found you on Facebook. Normally, I wouldn't dare try to contact someone "out of the blue" like this, but since I saw your LinkedIn profile and your recruiting experience... I'm hoping that you'll just see this as part of my "due diligence"?

smile emoticon (It wasn't hard to find you with a first name, picture, and city location - exactly what most recruiters would do for a cursory online search, right?)

First, I think you are naturally beautiful and stunning! It's the kind of beauty that makes a guy be relaxed and comfortable with you. (Some of these dating profiles make me wonder how much some of these women spend in make up and what they're trying to hide? Makes them look like they're "high maintenance" or something.)

Anyway, I hope I didn't completely freak you out by contacting you like this, but I wanted to reach out and see if we could start a conversation?

I look forward to chatting with you and even being Facebook friends, if you're open to it.

Chat with you soon, I hope.
(Guy's Name Here)

Don't Reference Serial Killers

This popped up in my WORK email the other day... it was preceded by four online messages in a 24 hour period, a Facebook friend request (and message that I hadn't discovered, yet) and a LinkedIn message.  Im very sure I never "favorited" him since I don't favorite anyone.  While I have to admire his persistence, there also comes a point that you should just stop and wait to see if you hear from me, I would put that limit at 3 attempts to contact me.  I will admit that after the four messages and the Facebook request, I did block him on the dating site, it is too bad he didn't stop there.

Hi,

I’m (Guy's name here).  I hope you don’t mind me emailing you like this.  I know this is your work email, so this will be the only message I send, unless you want me to respond back to it.  I know how workplace email monitoring can be, especially with messages of a personal nature.

I liked your profile online and I was looking forward to getting to know you better.  I think you’re naturally beautiful!  I was happy that you chose me as a “favorite” as I did of your profile, but then your profile became “unavailable”.

I promise that If you didn’t indicate any interest, I certainly wouldn’t try to contact you.  It could’ve been unintentional?  (I’ve swiped right too often too, so I know a mix-up could happen.)  To err is human, to forgive is divine… but to really screw things up requires a computer.

So, I don’t know if *I* did something or if it was a strange website error (those things have happened to me before), but I wanted to find out if you wanted to connect via Social Media and see if we can get to know each other better?  Social media can let us see more of our personalities in our posts, likes, pictures, as well as a moderated chat & messaging function, etc.  Plus, it’s generally easy to completely block someone if they’re really harassing or stalking you. 

I’m on Facebook and LinkedIn.  I did send you a LinkedIn request just to show you that I have a professional career that I’m building and perhaps we could chat there?  (Serial killers can’t be licensed for insurance and financial services.)  I sent you a Facebook message… but then I realized that Facebook just doesn’t send notifications of messages from people you aren’t connected with.  (I checked my own inbox and found about 7 messages of that nature myself.)

Here are my links to prove that I’m a real person.

My Facebook profile:

My Facebook business page:

LinkedIn:

Of course, you can text me at the number below if you’re comfortable in doing that instead.

But if all this is just too weird or too fast, it’s okay.  I’ll be disappointed, but I just didn’t want the opportunity to get to know you to slip away from me.

I hope we can connect and chat sometime.  If you’re not interested right now, just let me know.  I promise it’s okay.

(Guy's name here)

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