A Short Guide to Avoiding Jerks
February 14th (or the Single Awareness Day as we like to call it) is approaching real fast, the dating scene makes most of us shudder with horror to see the abundance of jerks all around us. No matter how much we wanted this bizarre species to stay miles away from us, they never do. You keep wondering whether all normal dateable male species who have the decency to call you back after dates have died off the face of this earth and keep doubting yourself. But it's not you, it's them. So this will be a short guide to help you through the painful process of fending off the jerks and finding your (seemingly non-existent) one true love. If you're a jerk magnet or suffering from Jerk Attraction Disorder (JAD), like yours truly, you may find this guide helpful.
The first step is obviously to trust your guts and in case you do realize you're interacting with a jerk, ignore their existence. This doesn't always come in handy since these people have a special sensory detector to find new people to make them feel inferior. But if you continue to act like you're not acknowledging the fact that they breathe the same air as you, that might discourage the pursuer, which doesn't happen quiet a lot, to be honest.
If you have a bad feeling after you meet them for the first time, steer clear of them. No matter what people say, first impression always matters the most. If he looks like a jerk and talks like a jerk, then he probably is one. And yes, that includes wearing shades at a restaurant while having dinner, a traumatic experience one of my friends had to go through a few years back which she'd rather not remember.
If he keeps bragging about what he has achieved and keeps cracking overused old jokes, that means he's self obsessed and needs a cheerleader to feed his ego by draining out all your positive energy. If he can't pay attention to what you are saying and can't reference things you told him in past conversations, but expects you remember every tiny details of his insignificant life, self-centered losers don't deserve your attention. These people have a tendency to make you feel less beautiful, smart, and amazing than you already are. All you can do in these cases is blocking them out of your life, possibly for good.
If he passes through all the aforementioned stages and still doesn't give you the creeps, then congratulations to you on finding a person who's gonna make dealing with all the previous dating crap worth it to find someone.
Aateeya Saabeen, scarily resembling Koala Bear in looks and in sleeping patterns and a dedicated Beatlemaniac, who believes her Hogwarts letter got lost in the mail because they misspelled her name. Leave her a message on www.facebook.com/aateeya.saabeen