Date Lab
IntErvIEws By chrIstIna BrEda antonIadEs
He’s not feeling so hot. Will it cool their date?
ChanCes of making friends in a bar …
Lauren: very likely. I talk to strangers every day at work and love it! Evan: as constant as gravity.
brag a little …
Lauren: I’m the kind of girl a guy can just have fun with. I’m open to anything. … I’m adventurous (I’ve been sky diving), a big traveler (I spent six months in australia), a girl who can eat, but I’m also very little (I loooove pizza), and just very down to earth. Life’s too short to not have fun! Evan: My mom thinks I’m pretty great all around.
Your tYpe …
Lauren: the all-american preppy boy. think abercrombie. But I’m not all about looks, of course. someone who is adventurous, a little rough around the edges but a good guy at heart. Evan: Intelligent girls who don’t take themselves too seriously.
Lauren Bosk, 25, retail department manager Evan MacQueen, 26, private equity associate
7:30 P.M., CAFE ASIA, ARLINGTON
evan: I started feeling bad the day of the date. It was a stomach thing. I tried to have a beer beforehand. That didn’t help at all. I was feeling terrible, but I didn’t want to postpone. I drove down and got there about five minutes early and was seated. Lauren: I picked out my outfit ahead of time and did my hair and makeup and just drove there. I was excited to meet someone new. When I walked in, I said that I had a reservation for The Washington Post, and they walked me to the table. Evan stood up and hugged me. He seemed like he’d be a nice guy to talk to — he had a nice smile. evan: She’s definitely a pretty girl, and she seemed like she was in good shape. She was well dressed. She’s probably
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someone I’d talk to if I were out on the weekend. Lauren: I don’t think he’s someone I’d normally go up to, but once I was introduced, he’s someone that I’d see as my type. He was dressed in a button-down shirt and jeans, and he was clean-cut, so he definitely fit [my] profile. We sat down, and I asked him, “Have you ever been on a blind date before?” So we talked about that a little. evan: We talked a lot about college. We talked about traveling quite a bit. We talked about her job. We talked about our families and our childhoods. It was all over the place. There were definitely some moments that, not surprisingly, were a little bit slow. But I thought it went decently well, considering everything. Lauren: We had a lot of good connections. We both went to small schools, and he was born in Australia and I studied abroad there. That was a big connection for me. He said he wanted to go back someday. And he used to play soccer and I used to play
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interests to share …
Lauren: someone who likes to travel, give back to the community through volunteer work, likes to go out with friends and have a good time but can also stay in and watch a movie. I also love to work out/play sports and would hope my date would, as well. Evan: travel, food and being slightly ridiculous.
soccer, so we talked about sports. evan: We both were fans of sushi. We ordered a couple of appetizers. I was not hungry, [but] I knew I should eat. [And] I had two beers. I think talking to her took my mind off the stomach thing, so I felt a little better. Lauren: When our meal came, [the server] brought us this huge platter of sushi, which we couldn’t finish. But we ate and continued talking. evan: I think the conversation went all right. It certainly didn’t help that I was feeling bad. I was probably not exactly myself. There were definitely times
where I was, like, I think I’m going to
pass out. [But] I was trying my best, [and] I was having a good time.
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