When she was a teen, I told Daughter Number Three-Point-One that miniature golf was a good first-date (or early-date) idea. It's an opportunity to observe how the other person behaves in a low-stakes but slightly competitive environment. Are they cool, or do they get upset about minor things? Do they care too much if they lose? Or win?
Tonight I was catching up on last week's John Oliver show and I found out that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had kind of an inverse first-date ploy back in his younger days.
According to a college friend, DeSantis would take a date out for Thai food, and purposely mispronounce it as "thigh" food. If his potential romantic partners (who were all young women) corrected him, that was it: he'd find an excuse to leave. He didn't want to be with a woman who would correct him. No matter how the correction was done, it sounds like.
This man went to Yale, so likely he was looking for Yale students who either didn't know how to pronounce Thailand or who were doormats. Or possibly who were smart enough to know what he was up to and go along with it. Which may be the case with the woman who ended up marrying him; I think she lets him think he's in charge.
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