Alright, teenagers that randomly stumbled onto this journal. I write oddly, it is a fact. I'm an insomniac, fact. Now, what happens when curiosity and insomniac mix? Well, doing random shenanigans of course.

On this day, night, morning part of the Just Jotting It Down journal, I was talking to a guy about first dates and dating in general which got me curious so I spammed out everyone that was still online and on my buddy list with the quesiton/prompt: What do you do to impress people on the first date? I know this comes out of no where, just asking around out of curiosity.

And to be fair, I asked both girlies and boys. One guy blanked out, and the other one had no idea how to respond, *Cough* Grant *Cough*.

But here are the results: (Cut and paste from the conversations at the time.)

Katrina: As a guy, complimenting a girl on her looks (genuinely, mind you) at the beginning of the night is good. (: But complimenting her the whole night is very very bad; one is good enough. Otherwise you come off seeming fake/into it only for her looks.

At a foreign restaurant, do not attempt to speak a few words of another language, especially if you sound stupid doing it. Even if it's French; it's lame and girls will tend to think you have the capability of saying something about them that they can't understand..

-thinks-
Me: Haha, my my. Thank you for the information, and from the girl's side?
Me: Now I'm just dying in curiousity
Katrina: NP. xD And lool, okay!
Katrina: Girls wanting to impress a guy tend to dress nicely but modestly. Usually when she's nervous, she'll joke around a lot more. But if the guy seems to appreciate it, she'll relax and start being herself more. Sometimes a woman will attempt to look independant but will just come off as being aloof, sooo try not to think right off the bat that she's not interested. She's just going about showing her independance in the wrong way. xD If a woman likes you she will touch her hair at some point, guaranteed.

She'll try to make sure her manners are perfect all the time, since she knows most men judge women at first with their appearance. She might brag a bit, but let her, because usually girls don't brag to other girls, so girls do it to their guys. xD Don't brag yourself, though, because women are unimpressed with that. Lol, hypocrites.

Mara: impressing someone on the first date? hmmm i guess well id most def dress as nicely as possible fer the occasion, depending on where yer going. then just tryy and be chill, try to have a good time and make them happyyy and laughh
:D
Me: thank you very much, Mara. Just been curious lately to help a friend out since I'm way to simple to be of much help and way too old fashion around most girls.
Mara: ahahaha itss nooo prob, anything to help a friend ^.^v
Me: Haha..This isn't really to help me, just very curious xD
Mara: lmaoooo sillyy xD curiosity killed the cat! o:
Mara: although idk where that applies here

Nolan: uhhm
: well
: first and foremost
: make sure to insist on paying for everything
: always ask her lots of questions about herself, make yourself seem interested in her
: don't talk about yourself too much, girls hate that
: uhh, don't try to kiss her if it's pretty obvious she doesn't want to
: take things slow to build trust generally
: i like to act a bit pretentious, it seems to work for the ladies
: and yeah
: there you have it
Me: Ah, very informative, thank you very much, Nolan xD
Nolan: ^-^
Me: It is quite amazing how open people were with that question I really wasn't expecting it
Nolan: it's one of those prompts that prompts people to be verbose
Me: Hehe, I see. I'm actually impressed by some of the knowledge that girls are sharing
Nolan: lel
Nolan: a girl would probably the best source

Now! Since the other one had so many contributions by the people I know and have seen lurking around dA. I open this to all of you, please add your random view on dating, first dates, and how to impress the opposite sex because I never write about this with many people anyhow.

In all fairness I respond to all of them, so I'll respond to the prompt as well.
Me: I'm a sap/old fashion person, almost every girl I've taken out on a date, I've given a fresh picked rose from the house. I grew up watching old movies and being way too uncomfortable around girls and there was always the offering to take them out with a rose in the movies so it stuck. About all I do is try to keep them smiling or laughing. Though it usually ends up me being the guy that never tries to ask out girlies because they are much too purty too date and then melt when they say yes and am instantly shot to the moon.

Bwuahaha! And to the person that said I was on too much sugar today, I stand by the statement that the fire breathing hippo catapulted through my roof and skated through the house

Other reasons I posted this is because venting is crazy and I don't really talk much about dating with people other than jokingly.

Audience grabber: (Subject to change)Have fun and stay tuned till next Just Jotting It Down post. I shall bring up the topic of peanut butter, the silent killer. And what it would be like to have a pet octopi, till next time!

Warning: Author is full of nonsense and anything typed out should be disregarded from this Journal.


By the way, I was thinking about posting these on Facebook and making it a challenge to other people to just jot down ideas whenever they feel the insomnia and see what people add to the concept