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sunkcost.dating
Entries
106
Dates
66.28 hrs
Travel
25 hr 12 min
Total time
91 hr 28 min
Cost
$4,011.48
Cost per date hour
$60.52
Recoverable
none

Latest term sighted

soft-cap dating

noun phrase

Stated meaning
Pausing new outreach to concentrate on one person while keeping at most one other conversation open, so that compatibility can be judged without losing every other lead.
Operating meaning
One person in focus and one conversation kept warm in case the focus does not hold, which is a rotation of 2 described as restraint.
Entry 005

I arrived at the first date with 4 questions and asked them in order. On the second date she asked me the fourth one back, and I could not answer it until she rephrased it for me and I agreed with her version.

Entry 004

green flag

noun

A certificate awarded for clearing the floor of a previous disaster, which turns basic courtesy into a credential and sets the bar at the height of the worst prior ex.

Entry 003

Autopsy · Subject A.

The food was not representative

60 minutes at the table, 90 in the car, $84.02 paid in full by me. She found the restaurant unrepresentative. Questions even again at 10 and 10.

Entry 002

One dozen roses, $15.00, bought the afternoon before the first date and left in my car until the end of the evening. They sat in a parking lot for 180 minutes, 45 minutes from my house, while I was inside asking 4 prepared questions in order. Flowers appear twice in this arc, and the second set was handed over at the start of the evening instead.

Entry 001

Autopsy · Subject A.

A date that audits clean

180 minutes, 10 questions from her, 10 from me, 0 phone checks, $143.73 paid in full by me. The audit found nothing. A second date is scheduled.