A Guide to Nerd Guys Meeting and Dating Women: Date Preperation
Ok, I”m back on the dating advice. Enough for now on the good and bad movies I have seen. I am stuck in a hotel in Portsmouth, NH and am feeling the need to make myself feel important.
You’ve made the call, and gotten her to agree to a specific time and activity for your first date. You are totally ready and all you need to do is pick her up and enjoy an evening of fun and romantic possibilities, right? Wrong.
Like we used to say in the Boy Scouts, Be Prepared (or, as my friends in the Marine Corps say, Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Take a lesson from ex-Marine Frank Castle, the Punisher (shirt image courtesy of the comic book t shirt category). 
Your preparation should begin as soon as you get off the phone with your future soul mate. First thing you need to do is make reservations at whichever restaurant you plan to eat at (by the way, if the place you are taking her too does not take reservations, set the Way Back Machine about 45 minutes and pick a different place. Also if the place you want to go has any kind of “theme costume” for it’s employees, especially clowns or anamorphic animals). Even if you know for a fact that the place will be dead empty and there is no problem with getting a table, always set a reservation. You look more sophisticated better prepared. Same goes with movie or show tickets.
All the rules we went over in terms of dressing and grooming apply double now. Get a haircut if you are due.
Get your car washed. Even if you are just meeting her somewhere, you can never tell where the evening may take you, and you don’t want her seeing a car that is in danger of losing velocity from the wind drag of all the detritus adhered to the outer surface of your car. Get the oil changed, and make sure you have a functioning spare tire (having to change a tire is not a bad thing during a date, and can make you look undeservedly rugged and masculine. However, nothing looks lamer than sitting in the car waiting for a tow truck and/or walking along the freeway rolling a flat tire to a repair station).
Two critical mistakes novice daters can make are money and gas. Do not make her wait in the car while you pump gas into it or pull cash from an ATM. You will look like a complete incompetent moron and totally piss her off, but not in a good way.
That pretty much it. I am sure some of you thought I was going to talk about bringing condoms, but honestly I don’t think most of you are at the level where you can expect to close the deal on the first date. In fact, I usually don’t bring them on a first date as to bring them seems really presumptuous.
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