Finding Pam(Tim)

There are plenty of Kings out there that sing heartfelt lyrics of young adult angst (the logical next step from teen angst).

"I could use somebody"
"I'd rather dance with you than talk to you"
"She was such a good girl to me"

I preach the book of dating. It IS old-fashioned. It involves talking to the other person in a quiet intimate setting that can lead to awkward silences, some discrete flirting with the waiter and a constant pressure to look good. Try looking svelte after a full dinner.

She won't eat too much. You'll order too much. And at the end of the day you might fall into a Vaughnian situation that relates the story of two people who are all the while wondering if they're going to get hopped up enough to get it on.

But a date is a good thing. And there are plenty of books and websites that advocate that the system is flawed. That it's too time consuming. That maybe, just maybe, we're not the right people to choose for ourselves. God, how could we choose on our own? We need a system! A systematic approach to grades people on two dimensions, physical and intellectual. Attach a couple of metaphors and you've made it fool proof. Alternatively, fill in a survey online that uses 32 dimensions of compatibility. THIS IS SCIENCE PEOPLE!

I still like dates. And even if as a guy you are not suave, cool, chic, or any of the other adjectives we guys like to think we need to be before even talking to a girl, you can do it.

The missed encounters section in Craig's list was made for two reasons.The first was for perverts and funny people alike to come up with an escalating situation in which the "missed encounter" scenarios become more and more like a hard-core snuff film.

The second was made for all the missed dates.
Walk up and ask.

Adorable relationships, in my experience, don't develop from a drunken hook-up at a party or a bar. And sure, that sometimes evolves into a late night booty call but Deschanel has written songs about the self-destructive nature of those. And a late night booty call is a relationship but one that inevitably leads to feelings that are very much one-sided. This is not the way to get into a guy's heart (for the most part).

Good luck exploring the infinite abyss looking for Pam(Tim).