Dating Game

Valentine's Day was on Sunday but there were still a few straggling events. On Tuesday, I went to The Supermarket in Kensington for 416 Dating Stories where professional comics and story-tellers, as well as brave amateurs regaled us with tales of mostly dating woes, though there were a few success stories. The audience was primarily couples, so there might be a case of "but for the grace of God" vibe in the air.

The theme of the evening might have been unexpected twists. The emcee's craigslist adventure was a series of one-sided, increasingly explicit, "negging" texts. A perfect rom-com story full of accidental run-ins didn't get a happy ending. While a disastrous drunken second date turned into a 6-month relationship (which ended because the couple was too much like each other). The beneficiary of the evening was environmental group 350 Action, whose representative contributed some cheesy, "activist" pick-up lines.