rounds. “She did really well,” Mike said. “It was pretty impressive.”
Then Dara needed to get home to her dog. Mike asked for her
number, so they swapped contact information and hugged
goodbye.
For Dara, the evening was “easy, really easy. And I enjoyed the
conversation.” But Mike didn’t feel quite the same way. “It was just
sort of more kind of surface-level things,” he said. “I tend to date
women who are pretty chatty and extroverted, and Dara seemed
like more of a listener.” While Dara didn’t necessarily feel that
romantic chemistry, she said, “I don’t usually expect to feel sparks
on a first date. I usually look for: Do I enjoy the person? Do we get
along? Do I find them interesting? Because [sparks] could come
later.”
Even though Mike asked for Dara’s number, he admitted he did
it because it was “the perfunctory, nice thing to do” and he was
“leaning toward no” on a second date. “When we got to the end of
the night, you can tell if the chemistry is there, and it wasn’t there.”RATE THE DATE
Dara: 5 [out of 5].
Mike: 3.5.UPDATE
They went on a second date but didn’t pursue things further.Jessica M. Goldstein is a regular contributor to the magazine and The
Post’s Style section.They got an outdoor table and each ordered a vodka cocktail.
Trying to avoid asking about work, they aimed to figure out why
they were matched, realizing they’d both lived in D.C. since
graduating from college. Mike talked about doing improv comedy,
which Dara enjoys watching; both of them are into spending
weekends exploring the brewery scene. They swapped travel
misadventure stories and talked about how they filled their time in
quarantine (she got a dog, he bought a backyard grill). For some
reason, they started talking about whether they believe in ghosts,
not typical first-date fodder, which Dara found charming. “I really
enjoyed that part of the conversation. We were both like: I’m
skeptical but I’m open.”
Dinner lasted a couple of hours, after which Mike thought they’d
be a bit more at ease in a different environment. “Since we’re both
pretty big fans of dive bars,” he said, they wound up a few blocks
south at Kingfisher, where “we both hit our stride a little more.”
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