A Small, yet VITAL Dating Rule …based on real life dating faux pas that my friends and I have dealt with.

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Never go on a date a guy or girl who’s name you don’t know. Allow me to expand, because I’m sure you’re all thinking DUH, that’s not a new rule, gimme my money back. Hold.

So you meet a cute guy you would definitely like to see again.   Perhaps you used your online dating handles in communication, whatever the case…You give him your number, maybe you get his, maybe you don’t. MAYBE you do, but you give everyone in your life a nickname, and he gets a nickname too. Saved in your phone as, FOR EXAMPLE…”Mystery!” I’m just sayin.

So time goes by and “Mystery” texts/calls and you go out. For whatever reason, he never says, “Hey, it’s Billybob!” when he calls, he probably just assumes that in this day and age of caller i.d and technology and facebook and HOW YOU, YA KNOW, ACTUALLY MET HIM, that you know his name.

What if you don’t? What if you go out with him, and keep going out with him and you really like each other and you think you’ll find a piece of mail or something at his house but nope nope nothing and soon he let’s you down and you’re super said but then it bitch slaps you across the face that you DON’T EVEN KNOW HIS NAME, so how sad can you really be and all of a sudden you feel much better because yeah, he made you cry for a hot minute but HE’S NOT EVEN A REAL PERSON, HE’S LIKE A UNICORN, albeit a nameless one.

And you take a deep breath and tell this to your friends and they’re both speechless that you didn’t know your boyfriends name, so you just keep shoveling mac and cheese in your mouth and saying, “I KNOW!” because you do know, well except for you don’t.

You still don’t know his name. Class dismissed.