Modern Dating 101

From varsity.co.nz

An introductory guide to student romance in the naughties.

So you’ve done the hard yards of meeting someone and getting their number, which makes it seem kind of unfair that you now have to enter a whole new arena: The World Of Dating. And it sure is a jungle out there. So, in the search for some hard-and-fast rules to the game, I turned to my trusty 1956 version of The Pocket Book of Etiqutte. I’ve been getting endless hours of hilarity from this book – and I thought I’d attempt to update the rules for the modern student romantic.

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