Date rules silly ridiculous
by Eric Edwards, The Orlando Sentinel (KRT)

    Dear singles who are attempting to date and are applying the mythical, yet pervasive, three-day-before-you-call rule to your social lives.

   I am not sure who started the three-day rule, but I am certain they had incredible success with it. Otherwise, people would not treat it like a tenet of some major religion.

   These days many people believe that you can’t call a girl the day after you meet her because she will think you are too available and something must be terribly wrong with you.

   The worst part is that women claim they hate it when guys wait. They say they don’t like those kinds of games. But they don’t mean it.

   Having long been victims of waiting three days for a guy to call, women have the notion that only desperate and depraved individuals will pick up the phone the next day to say: “Great meeting you last night.”

   So women, you must stop it too.

   It should not be hard to dial up a girl who just gave away her number, because, hey, she already gave you her number.

   A big part of the problem might be that once a man has waited 36 hours to make contact with his potential date, an enormous amount of pressure has developed .

   Sure some men wait three days because they are busy, or they just aren’t that excited about the whole deal, and that’s their prerogative. But I say if you are interested, share it.