“Thirty minutes is like an interview,” she explained, as if she were the Alan Sugar of love, although she did not reveal whether the dates who didn’t pass her test were dismissed with “You’re fired”.
Of course, this is partly because I am a woman, and we are trained not to cause a fuss. Hence, I once went for dinner with a man whose personal passion was typefaces and spent several hours wondering how to escape, while he explained the complexity of kerning (if you don’t know what that is, you probably don’t need to).
Paloma Faith is right, half-an-hour is more than enough to know whether you find someone interesting. It takes even less time to decide if you fancy someone. The science says it takes us seconds to make up our minds if we’re attracted to someone. With online dating, if the chat has been good, you can usually tell from the minute they walk in if you’re prepared to take the next step and snog them.
Faith’s approach is surely much kinder – be honest from the start and tell them your 30-minute rule. At least then, if things aren’t working you have “a hard out”. I suspect if you told any date straight-forwardly, they’d agree.
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Read MoreBut perhaps the best thing about short dates is that they leave you both with the potential for wanting more, which is so rare now in our instant-gratification culture where everything is so readily available.
Talking of which, an added bonus of the half-hour date, is that it leaves no potential for beer-goggles or a drunken snog taking place.
The track is a paean to both instant attraction and also the joy of a fleeting affair, “Sometimes it’s better just to let them go” Faith sings, “Cause your illusion’s more than what you could know”.
Of course she is right. Perhaps half an hour isn’t long enough to get to know everything about someone but it is short enough to make sure every date is a good night.
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