They say opposites attract. But it has not been like that in First Dates. Neither love nor chemistry has arisen between two completely different diners, and the economy has just blown up the appointment: he preferred to pay the media instead of inviting.
It started badly from the start. Pablo, a flight attendant who grew up watching planes take off with his mother, was so impressed by his date, Alexandra, a Russian girl, that he was speechless and momentarily doubted that it was really his date.
Over dinner, she mentioned that Latino men tend to like fair-skinned and blonde women like her, while Russian women tend to like Latinos. At one point, Alexandra jokingly suggested to Pablo that she go to Russia to flirt with the women there because Russian women find Latino men exotic, but Pablo didn’t seem to take the hint.
While Pablo seemed happy with the conversation and they even made plans for the future and divided up the housework, Alexandra, on the other hand, felt that she had to lead the conversation and that Pablo hadn’t quite started.
Nor did the young man realize that Alexandra had no intention of paying for dinner. Apparently, as the young woman commented, the Russians are very economically independent women, but that does not mean that they refuse to be invited. “I don’t mind paying half because I earn well. But you will never see me again,” Alexandra said.
So when Pablo agreed to have a second date, he was met with a refusal from the Russian: “I wouldn’t have a second date with Pablo because I had other expectations. I was a little relaxed and it seemed to me that I was putting too much pressure on you with my questions, I was interviewing you a lot.”
