Now a "I've been stood up" thread.

[lokiju]

EDIT:

Oh, there it is!

She just canceled!!

Well that about does it!

I'm throwing in the towel!

Time to call up the friends and go get drunk.


I'm tired of this dating shyte!

People can be so fvcking fake!!

 

Any girl I've ever dated would be taken aback (and probably a little freaked out) with flowers on the first date.

Show her a good time with lots of good conversation and you won't need flowers to prop you up.

 

[KarenMarie]

from my point of view... i would think that a dozen roses is a bit over the top for a frist date.

Carnations, or a mixed bouquet is much more appropriate.

edit: flowers are a good thing... i am just thinking that roses are a bit OTT

 

[sixone]

Go for it. Just watch her reaction, and act accordingly. Don't tell her you got them on the cheap tho, unless they look beat up.

 

[AreaCode707]

Go ahead and get the flowers if you want to. A dozen roses for $10 is fine, but don't get red ones. White are a little overly fancy too.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

you could probably get away with either a single or 6 WHITE roses...

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: HotChic
Go ahead and get the flowers if you want to. A dozen roses for $10 is fine, but don't get red ones. White are a little overly fancy too.

Why not red?

Color matters?

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: blazert40

Originally posted by: HotChic
Go ahead and get the flowers if you want to. A dozen roses for $10 is fine, but don't get red ones. White are a little overly fancy too.

Why not red?

Color matters?

Color very much matters, more than amount. Red and white are the kind of traditional romantic stuff. Something colorful is much more first-date-ish. The flowers, whether you get a dozen roses, 6 roses, or some type of mixed boquet, are nice and she'll appreciate all of them at about the same level. But red/white is "I love you" material.

 

[lokiju]

I should note that I've given her a single rose twice before and she seemed to love it, I even gave her one before flying out of town for the weekend and she keep it with her the whole weekend, which kind of surprised me.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: blazert40

Originally posted by: HotChic
Go ahead and get the flowers if you want to. A dozen roses for $10 is fine, but don't get red ones. White are a little overly fancy too.

Why not red?

Color matters?

red = love
yellow = friendship

i forgot the other colors

edit: link

 

[n7]

Not 12.

Maybe one.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: blazert40

Originally posted by: HotChic
Go ahead and get the flowers if you want to. A dozen roses for $10 is fine, but don't get red ones. White are a little overly fancy too.

Why not red?

Color matters?

Color very much matters, more than amount. Red and white are the kind of traditional romantic stuff. Something colorful is much more first-date-ish. The flowers, whether you get a dozen roses, 6 roses, or some type of mixed boquet, are nice and she'll appreciate all of them at about the same level. But red/white is "I love you" material.

Sigh, so much for me to learn in this life still.

I had no f'ing clue that different colors of roses meant different things.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: blazert40

Originally posted by: HotChic
Go ahead and get the flowers if you want to. A dozen roses for $10 is fine, but don't get red ones. White are a little overly fancy too.

Why not red?

Color matters?

red = love
yellow = friendship

i forgot the other colors

edit: link

Yeah, there are specific meanings to the colors, but by and large the translation is
Red = SERIOUS
White = Pretty serious
Everything else = Sweet

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Amol
edit: link

Bookmarked. Thanx.

 

[lokiju]

Wow, now I wonder if she has any clue about the different colors and their meanings?

I gave her a red one before when we were out with a large group and some guy walked by selling single roses, she was all giddy about it.

Other time was more of a pink color I believe.

 

[platinumike]

NONE. Giving flowers to a chick on the first date is one of the most over-used chumppish things u can do. I have a whole lot of info to give u my friend, too much for this small post. Depending on the chick, I wouldnt even take her to a fancy dinner date. Maybe just lunch or coffee. You seem desperate/unexperienced to her, if you wanna jump in to a dinner date and flowers in hand. What you wanna do, is something you should do on the 3rd-4th date. Think of it, if you were a girl, and you get taken out every now and then by the ordinary guy, to dinner and a movie or sometimes just dinner. She's seen this plenty of times, and she wont be looking for more, since you've already laid your best date offer on the table. Give her a lil of a time, that way she wants more.

 

[platinumike]

I just noticed you live in ft lauderdale, I live just north. Where you taking her?

 

[MustangSVT]

12 is enough.. more than enough...

dont over do yourself on the first date..

you never know what kind of "bitch" they might turn out to be..

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: blazert40
Wow, now I wonder if she has any clue about the different colors and their meanings?

I gave her a red one before when we were out with a large group and some guy walked by selling single roses, she was all giddy about it.

Other time was more of a pink color I believe.

Single red rose is more on the romantic/sweet side of things. Kinda traditionally so.

[edit] For anyone who says don't do it because you're setting her up to be spoiled or setting yourself up to fail, none of that stuff should be true if the girl is sensible. If she's not, you don't want her anyway. So there shouldn't be anything to fear.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: platinumike
NONE. Giving flowers to a chick on the first date is one of the most over-used chumppish things u can do. I have a whole lot of info to give u my friend, too much for this small post. Depending on the chick, I wouldnt even take her to a fancy dinner date. Maybe just lunch or coffee. You seem desperate/unexperienced to her, if you wanna jump in to a dinner date and flowers in hand. What you wanna do, is something you should do on the 3rd-4th date. Think of it, if you were a girl, and you get taken out every now and then by the ordinary guy, to dinner and a movie or sometimes just dinner. She's seen this plenty of times, and she wont be looking for more, since you've already laid your best date offer on the table. Give her a lil of a time, that way she wants more.

Well this situation may be a bit different then since we've been together a few other times but not for a one on one date, but we've kissed each time we've been together. I did already take her out to lunch once though, one on one. So come to think of it that was a kind of date.

Tonight is just the first time it will be her and I out to dinner and we don't have to rush to get back to work or anything, I'm sure I'm just over thinking it though.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: platinumike
I just noticed you live in ft lauderdale, I live just north. Where you taking her?

Out in Coral Springs somewhere off of University. She's picking, she wanted to.

 

[olds]

0 roses
Are if you're a chump, 1 yellow

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: blazert40
Wow, now I wonder if she has any clue about the different colors and their meanings?

I gave her a red one before when we were out with a large group and some guy walked by selling single roses, she was all giddy about it.

Other time was more of a pink color I believe.

Single red rose is more on the romantic/sweet side of things. Kinda traditionally so.

[edit] For anyone who says don't do it because you're setting her up to be spoiled or setting yourself up to fail, none of that stuff should be true if the girl is sensible. If she's not, you don't want her anyway. So there shouldn't be anything to fear.

It's nice to have the input of a lady, thank you HotChic!

BTW we're not some teen kids, I'm 25, she's 29 if that matters at all?

 

[her209]

No flowers.

 

[platinumike]

Cool. Well i was thinking, this was the 1st date, and you had only just met her before. I would get her 1 single rose in this case. Lemme know where you end up going, and how it turns out.