This is actually a very intriguing question. What would you be most nervous about- a promising first date or an important interview? It seems reasonable until you factor in real life experience. Your personal history with interviews and dates will inform your evaluation of each. I'm never nervous in an interview because I've been working since I was 12 and have been offered a position for every job for which I have ever interviewed. It stands to reason that I would be more confident in the personally successful field of work than the more ephemeral field of love. It doesn't mean I devalue practicality or embrace the pursuit of folly. It just means that I learn from experience. Just sayin'.

What the fuck kind of an asshole would leave their significant other because they lost a limb? I can kind of understand someone being creeped out by someone who was missing a limb and not dating them in the first place, though it seems strange to me personally. But who in the fuck would be in a relationship with someone and then dump them because they had an accident?  

What's the protocol? What's the magic formula? It used to be so easy. When you're young and in school you have built in interaction with people all day long. You have a built in shared experience to bond over. It has seemed to me, (and to all of my friends who, like me, have moved away from home in search of a new path) that the farther you get outside of that school setting, the harder it is to make new friends. I've easily made friends with people through work in every city I've moved to, but even then it's through a smaller version of the social structure in place in a school setting (regularly scheduled interaction and a shared experience to build a bond over usually equals friendship). It worked great for the 10 years that I was managing a coffee shop because my peers, crew and customers were usually similarly free spirited, wonky creative types, but now that I (and many of the aforementioned old friends) have entered the 9 to 5 office world, it gets harder and harder. Going out with folks from the office is great when you have something in common, but I'm not a middle aged mom (and I never will be) and they don't want to stay up until the wee hours of the morning talking about philosophy or books or music or any other abstract thing. So, how does it work? Any great tricks for meeting new people without seeming like a freak for walking up and introducing yourself?

Many more people than you would guess have, indeed, had a penis in their ear. Thanks Ok Cupid.