I went on a date with someone who, midway through, told me that on the Larry David show, Larry David always stops midway through a date to ask: how do you think this date is going? So, he said, pausing for dramatic effect, how do you think this date is going? We were at a sports bar in the East Village. That was not where we had started the date, but we had ended up there because he disliked the cocktail bar in my neighborhood that I had chosen. It was the kind of sports bar where they were playing tennis on the screen and sad rock music over the loud speaker. I was too embarrassed to say I thought the date was going incredibly poorly so I told him I thought sometimes it took more than a couple drinks to get to know someone. When I asked him, he demurred. It seems to me that if you ask that kind of question, you have to be prepared to answer it, but I have not watched the Larry David show.
I went on a date with someone else who asked me what I thought about dating apps. My feelings ar…