by Shannon Hunter
Dating is hard, especially around Valentine’s Day when single sounds like a dirty word and every date comes with the added pressure of the Hallmark holiday.
Recently, while having dinner with a group of friends, I received a call from one of my best girlfriends who needed to see me for drinks immediately. Assuming that something was wrong, I invited her to join us. After she ordered a very large glass of wine and a piece of cheesecake we had the pleasure of hearing about what was possibly the worst blind date… ever.
Blind dates are never a good idea, but when a friend sets you up with someone you go in confidently knowing that a friend would never put you in an uncomfortable situation. For whatever reason, this was not the case on that particular evening.
My friend arrived at the date with high expectations, hoping for, at the very least, a fun evening. What she was met with was a clipboard and a "dating contract." She was instructed by Mr. Clueless to read and sign the two page, six clause document before the date could begin. Knowing that this date had gotten off to a bad start anyway, the lifelong Torontonian had met Mr. Clueless at a restaurant in The Rogers Centre for dinner. Even without the dating contract, he had lost points for choosing the most touristy possible location.
The best thing about the Dating Contract is that my friend had to agree to indemnify the woman who had set them up, which I imagine is good for their friendship.
As I read through the contract to our friends at dinner, it was met with a mix of shock and disbelief. How could a man living in Toronto actually be this clueless? How could anyone that has ever been on a date try this on someone? Did we accidently stumble into some real life sitcom? Friends hasn’t been on the air for years, but I’m pretty sure this would have made an excellent plot line.
Dating is hard enough without forcing someone to sign a contract that outlines every step of the relationship, including who pays for what, what terms you’ll use to describe your relationship in three months’ time, and mandatory disclosure of any and all “bizarre religious beliefs.”
To her credit, my friend managed to stay with Mr. Clueless all the way through dinner and she even went with him to the top of the CN Tower, which for a lifelong Torontonian is also cheesy and forced, but when he tried to get her to stand on the glass floor despite her fear of heights, she called it a night.
To his credit I’d like to thank Mr. Clueless for providing me and several friends with an evening of laughter; but if I could give you one piece of advice, Mr. Clueless, it would be this, don’t try so hard. Deciding how you’re going to introduce someone to your friends over the course of the next three months is a bit much, especially when it comes before drinks.
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Comments
Alex,
This guy was totally serious, he told my friend to bring a pen, had it on a clipboard and would not let her out of the car until she signed the contract. It was just a tragic tragic evening. He also had a detailed itinerary.
He had LOST POINTS?? For choosing the AC Centre?
I think he lost all of his points by bringing this hilarious contract!
Tell me you're making this up. Tell me. Just tell me.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together could obviously tell that this "contract" is a joke, and intended to be taken in jest. How could your friends take this seriously, or more importantly, how could they not understand this?
I was at the above mentioned dinner and was witness to the reading of this contract. One thing that I found VERY amusing about the whole thing was the guy told her to bring a pen! He managed to compose/print out this insane document and find a clipboard...and yet he couldn't bring his own pen?
Oh, also, there was an Itinerary too! If I recall correctly it had them still hanging out at 11pm and she was at our table by 9:45pm.
As a man I have to say: Ladies, take heart! I don't know any of my friends who would ever DREAM of doing such an insane thing. Most didn't believe me when I told them of this and didn't believe that this guy was serious once I confirmed the reality of the situation.
That's impressively bad. It makes me wonder where he got the contract from or who taught him that it would be anywhere near a good idea to so this.
However, visiting the Team Blonde Inc. website (as noted on the bottom left of the contract) starts to give me a few ideas of where the walk down a horrible path might have started....
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