Friday night, I spent at home watching How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days with a tub of Dreyer’s Rocky Road ice cream. The movie came out in 2003 – can’t believe it’s been almost 20 years! I haven’t seen the movie before but have heard great things about it. I love watching romance (especially high school romance), comedy, and of course, romantic comedy.

The movie was so cute. Personally, I think the storyline was bad, but Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey worked so well together that it makes me giddy! There were a few good moments where I laughed out loud because the characters were so ridiculous, but I think that’s what made this movie great. It’s so lighthearted and what I needed on a night that I want to spend by myself.

Inspired by the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, I wanted to share my version of How to Lose a Girl in 10… Ways! If you do any of these, you’ll definitely lose a girl in less than 10 days. These were things that have happened to me on dates, ick!

Here is my version of How to Lose a Girl in 10 Ways:

1. Tell a girl you’re surprised that she’s letting you pay for the bill after you offered. I mean, if you’re going to offer to pay for dinner, I’m not going to fight you for the bill. Don’t offer something if you don’t mean it!
2. Ask her to pick you up on the second date because you got a really good parking spot at your apartment, so you don’t want to lose it. You have to move your car eventually, right?
3. Take a girl (who doesn’t know anything about golf) to TopGolf on your first date and tell her that you’re surprised she didn’t comment on how good your golf swing is. I didn’t know what a good or a bad golf swing looks like!
4. As you’re about to kiss her, freak out and tell her that you’ve never kissed a girl before. Please don’t do this, it’s just awkward.
5. Ask her if she’s rich. What does this even mean? How do you define rich? I can take care of myself, thank you very much.
6. Compare her to your ex-girlfriend. She might give you some wiggle room if you accidentally bring up your ex-girlfriend, but there’s no wiggle room if you compare her to your ex!
7. Message her on your business Instagram account after she ignores you on your personal Instagram account. Excuse me, how unprofessional!
8. Tell her that your mom doesn’t like her. You told your mom about her because you’re a momma’s boy. She finds my blog and concludes that I’m not good enough for her son without even meeting me first!
9. Violate her HIPAA because you needed to make sure she wasn’t “hiding anything from you”. You work as a pharmacy technician at CVS and searched her up on the database to make sure she was clean… What in tarnation…
10. Ask her what kind of Asian she is, and then tell her that your baby momma is also Asian, and your daughter is half-Asian. Some things are better to wait until the third date to bring up.

Unless the girl you’re seeing is in some sort of a bet or doing a social experiment for a column (or a blog post), you can guarantee that doing these things will lose a girl.

This was so much fun to write and to reminisce about first dates! Maybe my next post will be How to Go from Having an Amicable Breakup to Being Blocked. I do have more experience dealing with horrible breakups than with horrible first dates.