usan Cannot Seem to Get a Date

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

The Baron’s fiancée, Lady Angela of Alpine Castle, did not want to be known as a person her friends could come to for advice. She felt that people generally could do a very good job solving their own personal and domestic problems.

But one of Lady Angela’s dear friends named Phyllis asked if she could help solve her concern about why her twenty-year-old only daughter, Susan, could not seem to get as many dates as other girls her age.

They talked for hours about this concern and finally Lady Angela happened upon the reason.

It seemed that when the young man that went out on the first date with Susan, he wanted to show his pictures of mountains to her, she would look at the pictures for a few careful moments and say that it looked like he moved the camera too much. This was not what the date expected to hear and he never called on Susan again.

The next date asked to listen to some poetry that he wrote. She listened to the poem and then said that the poem did not seem to rhyme and did not make much sense.

The third date loved to paint the boats sailing on Lake Lilliland. When the young man showed the paintings to Susan, she said that the boats did not look very real. That man never asked Susan out again.

Susan had to learn how to be very diplomatic in her commentary. On the first date, she should have said to the photographer that his pictures were interesting.

To the poet, Susan should have said that his poetry showed that he was very dedicated and concerned about poetry.

To the artist who painted boats on Lake Lilliland, Susan should have said that the pictures showed a great love of the lake and water-related activities.

If Susan had given words of encouragement instead of negative responses, she would have become more popular on dates.

Susan began to follow this advice and she soon realized that she really had been acting like her own worst enemy.

After all, there is no substitute for good manners.