#79 Dating for Dinner

After eating rice, beans, and ramen alone at home for months the unemployed want nothing more than a nice meal with some nice company. With their friends and loved ones spending too much time at work trying not to get fired, the unemployed are often left to their own devices, figuring out what to do about dinner. A lot of wanting to go out for dinner dates has to do with wanting a chance to have some social interaction, but most of it is just banking on a good meal. The best way to get some dinner and conversation going is to join an online dating site – preferably a free one. 

Now, the only reason why it makes sense to join a dating site is because that’s probably easier than trying to pick someone up at the grocery store when all that’s in the basket is ramen and generic products or trying to hit on someone at a bar by sending a glass of water over. And the new favorite unemployment pastime of standing outside a restaurant window mimicking the eating motions of dining patrons probably isn’t going to score an invitation to join the party. Creating a dating profile breaks the barrier a bit because hours can be spent trying to make dating an unemployed person seem appealing – something that might not happen on the spot. Also, it gives time to be creative about being poor, because there’s a need to balance hinting at not wanting/being able to pay for dinner, and being too pathetic to bother with. The power of choosing who might be interested in taking an unemployed person out can also be a great time killer, and there’s no limit in how many people might be winked, hollered or hooted at for a possible date.

It should be noted that dating for dinner is different than dating for love. It should be a casual thing with no intentions on having it go further than dinner and an awkward conversation. For the single folk, they want to make sure to change up the people they date because they never want to have to end up paying for a meal. In other cases, the unemployed already have a significant other who are helping them choose who would be an acceptable date. Hard working significant others realize the sacrifices that must be made to bring the bacon home to the filthy, lazy slob playing video games all day, and hide their guilt by allowing their lonely, unemployed mates to have platonic dates for meals. And if they’re lucky, their “open relationship” might result in having a gourmet doggy bag to munch on after a long day of work. It’s a win-win situation for all but the fool who paid for dinner.

Tags: cheap dates, free stuff, stretching a dollar, things to do when unemployed