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What's The Right Way To Excuse Yourself From A Date You're Not Into?

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It's your first date with someone, and within a few minutes, you can tell it's not going anywhere. Do you stay for the rest of the date? Or do you excuse yourself early? Bert's friend was in this situation, and she left after an hour into the date. The guy was upset, but she doesn't think she did anything wrong. So we're wondering, what's the right way to excuse yourself from a bad date? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-bert-show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, the virtue. So the question becomes if you're on a date where you know it's not gonna lead anywhere

0:06.8

How long do you have to give the date? Is it an hour to be polite? Is it 15 minutes?

0:13.4

Is it two hours?

0:16.1

So here's what I know um, I know that she's mo you'll love this

0:20.5

So try to think of a woman like a New Yorker a woman fast paced

0:27.0

Doesn't got a lot of time for nonsense. I also know that she's upper upper management

0:33.0

So her time is really really near any extra curricular time has got to be worth the time she's gonna give

0:40.1

She's like no nonsense New Yorker, right living in the south now

0:43.8

so

0:45.1

She links up with a dude and they go to a bar and they are having drinks together

0:50.1

I don't know if it's a tender date if it's a match date doesn't even matter

0:53.7

So they're sitting there and they're having drinks and it's pleasant enough, but she's like half an hour 45 minutes into this thing and she realizes

1:01.9

This isn't going anywhere. I'm not gonna see this guy again. He's pleasant enough. He's good looking enough

1:07.2

It's just one girl work for right

1:09.8

So all she's probably thinking at this point being the um, no nonsense kind of woman

1:14.5

She is and having the job shit. I could be doing a million different things right now. I could be hanging out with friends

1:19.0

I could be you know, I could be working right now

1:21.9

So in her words she politely sort of excuses herself from the date

1:27.9

So they're sitting at the bar and she says to the bartender. Okay, we're done. Can you know she gives him the signal like hey

1:33.7

Let's wrap it up that round finger thing

1:36.2

Hey, can you open it? Can we just wrap it up? So she continues to talk to him and

1:41.4

um, I think they split the tab 50-50 or whatever and then she wraps it up and she says thanks for a really nice time

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