Stranger Danger Essays - Blindness, Blind Date, Visual Impairment

Stranger Danger By: Roni Morgan Exemplification Essay English 1301: Composition I Professor Armstrong Stranger Danger Roni Morgan March 23, 2013 What a blind date is How blind dates come about Assumptions made based off comments Online dating Being untruthful Why blind dates are not always good and what they are Blind dates are dangerously lacking in security or stability and are very untrustworthy. This is because a blind date occurs when two people going out on the date are meeting for the first time. It does not necessary mean these people are visually impaired but that no in- person meeting has occurred. Blind dates can be set up by many different sources i.e. friends, online, or even a match- making program. Which means usually your date is a stranger until the first encounter you have with one another. If a blind date is set up by friends or someone who thinks they know you, the person might not be the person you pictured based on the awesome comments friends tend to put off. Everyone has different opinions and taste therefore you can't take someone else's word on what they think of a person. Your date you get set up on might seem perfect to your friends based on their categories but you might not be able to know if your date is what you are actually looking for. For example my friend wanted to set me up on a blind date with her boyfriend's best friend so we could go on a double date. I had no idea who he was; all I knew was he attended the same school and according to her he looked exactly like Denzel Washington and had a great personality. Based off what she said about him he seemed really nice yet I didn't want to engage in a date with him because it would be awkward going out with a random person. However, I did go on the date with him; he was nothing I'd picture. He really was n't all that cool either and his jokes were immature. If a blind date is set up online, it's extremely unreliable because people are not honest with information on the internet. The information posted can be misrepresented in their attempt to make themselves sound more appealing, most of the time it is taken too far, to where their whole life story is a lie. For example my cousin met this guy in a different state on Facebook, he seemed like a decent guy but it was too good to be true. According to him he was number one in his school for wrestling and academic wise, also a male model. He made his whole story seem so believable. They made several plans to meet up and get married someday, since they both fell in love. However, to her surprise, she found another guys page who had the exact same pictures but yet a different name. Therefore you can conclude that people are not always who they say they are. And if she would have gone on a blind date with him it would have been extremely dangerous. Going on blind dates can be risky and weird. Meeting for the first time is always a major issue, not because the people are visually impaired but because that face- to- face is actually coming about. Blind dates are set up in many different ways.