Connell Barrett
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There was Arctic silence.
Kevin looked at me like, dude, what the fuck did you just say that for?
Awkward silence that seemed to last a month.
And of course, and I felt awful the instant the word left my mouth.
It felt so awful.
Not just because I was not being me, which is true, but because I made my date uncomfortable.
Kevin could not have – I'm not saying Kevin's date dumped him or ghosted him, but it certainly didn't help him at all.
I felt guilty for screwing up my friend's date.
He put his trust in me, setting me up with a woman who his female date knew.
I felt awful.
I just felt terrible.
And so the lesson here, don't be a dick.
There's a shocking, deep thought.
Don't go for shock, right?
Shock is not charm.
And if I had just been using my head instead of trying filtering the date through the lens of,
What's good game?
What did the dating experts say?
And at the time, everybody was saying, oh, be really shocking.
Don't be boring.