Date #2 - there's some things you should never say...

So date number two happened and I'll begin this blog post with a few tips:

1. In your nervous state, DON'T rush to the toilet for a last minute number 1. There is a chance you will forget to check your flies and spend the first 20 minutes of your date flying low...this includes the first introduction where you check each other out. (Yes this happened. Yes it was me flying low.)
   
2. Telling stories about someone going to jail for putting a beer bottle up a sleeping mans back entrance is possibly not the best story to tell on a first date....
   
3. When discussing names for future children remember your dates name, claiming you don't like names beginning with their initial is never a good start...
   
4. Discussing future children's names is possibly too keen.
   
5. Do not choose a restaurant full of screaming kids.
   
6. Try and remember that you don't have to say everything that goes through your mind...mentioning how worried you were that said date would rape or murder you doesn't go down too well.
   
7. Do NOT point out that the women drugged up to her eyeballs and shouting in the street is in fact your neighbour, and then try and claim you live in a nice area.
   
8. Don't take the second date to the same pub as the first date....the staff may start talking.
   
9. When saying goodbye DON'T ask for gum, they could get the wrong idea on how well the date went.

Date number two was sweet, he had his own hair and teeth (what more could a girl want?) He travelled considerable distance to meet me and was very polite when I was late (see tip 1) He's in the navy (hence the story from tip 2) and although there was a few moments of "shit, he hasn't asked me a question...and i've run out of them!"...we chatted for the entire 4.5 hour date (well he had travelled a long way) !!!

When I arrived home I (almost ironically) came across a short film about how a young man challenged himself to try and find his next date "offline" - it's a brilliant film and made me think ALOT (give it a watch). 

Could this spell the end of my tinder dating blogs? Should I try this weird, alien concept of meeting someone offline? 

Well sailor boy was nice, and like i said he has his own hair and teeth...so we'll see, watch this space.