Italian food

[Caldan]

Wow, who would've thought a simple wine question would generate so much interesting dialogue!

To clarify, I'm male, 32 years old. I do consider myself a "youngun", though GenX would surely disagree. My date-to-be is 24 and female. It was going to be a blind date, but one I was excited about.

So did Randy's advice work? Unfortunately, we'll have to wait to find out. Sadly, she lost her job the day before we were supposed to go out. Not a great time for a first date, so we postponed. We'll hopefully do it sometime in the next couple of months, but she understandably needs to get her life back together first.

But in the mean time, I'll be trying out Randy's advice at the first opportunity. I'll keep you guys informed.

By the way, Nancy, your advice was great, too. But there's a reason I was drawn to Randy's advice. See, there are many of us who enjoy a good glass of wine, but have no idea what goes with what or why. For us, a simple direction like "with Italian, order Pinot or Chianti" is like gold. Hey, we have to learn this stuff somewhere! And I don't drink enough wine to develop a palate.

Style over substance? Never. Both have to exist to create a romantic interest. But despite the denials of women, they'll be immediatly attracted to style every time. I've seen it happen too many times. Granted, if there's no substance there, they'll quickly lose interest, but the first thing they want to see is a guy with confidence who looks like he knows what he's doing.

Am I wrong?

Caldan

PS: In my opinion, Randy and Nancy should go out. Now THAT would be an interesting date!