Just came back from a first date and the girl asked me the dumbest running question

Well on the bright side you didn't lose your virginity to a simpleton.

Yet.

zzzzzzz wrote:

F*ck me, a non-runner girl expressing interest in the world's most boring hobby? That alone merits a second date.

Post of the year. I laughed so hard.

What matters most on a first date is the same as what matters in every human social interaction: be respectful; be courteous; be nice.

In trying to talk with you about your sport, despite the fact that she knows absolutely nothing about it, she was being respectful, courteous and nice. However you responded, you needed to be the same.

You will soon learn that there are never enough respectful, courteous and nice people in this world, and of those there are never enough who also happen to be pretty girls interested in dating you, so whether they know anything about track and field probably should not matter too much to you.

I recommend you learn these things ASAP.

Typical LRC poster who adds nothing to the conversation, just grammar corrections.

The OP is a tool in my opinion, nice girl who doesn't get it asks questions and you act like she should understand your mediocrity?

Ouch.

ARII wrote:

I've been asked "how far can you run until you get tired" and I must say that stumped me. So I guess your not alone.

You think that's a dumb question, yet you can't use punctuation.

quality control wrote:

ARII wrote:

I've been asked "how far can you run until you get tired" and I must say that stumped me. So I guess your not alone.

You think that's a dumb question, yet you can't use punctuation.

Your comment makes no sense, but I guess if you like punctuation so much, here's a great story with even better punctuation.

A Colorado man, is dead, and he, only has his dated, bigoted beliefs to blame.

Maxwell Jacobson, a widowed father, of two, who worked two jobs. To support his family, was a diligent, member of the, school board, taught Sunday, school at, his church, and volunteered to serve food, at the local?!, homeless shelter, on a weekly, basis, was found stoned, to death in, his front yard. His neighbors, and, daughters, have!?! admitted, their parts in his death. While, seemingly a model citizen, “The beast, within him, could not be, allowed to live,” said Patty Mills, who lived, next door to, Jacobson.

“I always, thought, he was?!,? such a good guy. But, then I heard, the hate speech, out of his, mouth, and I just couldn’t, believe my, ears. He was a monster, who needed, to be put down,” Mills, said. “Scum of, the Earth, is what, he was.”

It all happened, during a, weekly barbecue that, Jacobson!?? put, on every, Saturday for, the entire neighborhood. He’d!? buy, the food, and cook it himself, serving dozens as they engaged, in party games, and conversation, in his backyard.

“It was a, fun way, to spend our Saturday, nights,” said, Bob VanDerveer, another neighbor, who went on yearly, camping trips, to Canada with, Jacobson, “but I had no idea, the hate, that consumed, the man’s, heart, and soul. If I had, I never would, have allowed my family to go, anywhere near, him.”

While eating their, meals around, a campfire, Jacobson was, asked his take on the issues facing, transgender, people, in American society. It was then, that, according to VanDerveer, Jacobson let it, slip that he had “never really thought about, transgender, rights” until the “whole Bruce, Jenner thing”. “I think, it’s a, little weird,” Jacobson reportedly, went on, “but to each his own. As long as, people are happy, who am I to, judge?”

Everyone in, attendance was completely astonished, and disgusted by, Jacobson’s, words. “First off, it’s Caitlyn Jenner, not Bruce, you piece of, trash! Secondly, you, think it’s kind of weird, huh? Do, you, hate black people and, Jewish people, too? You bigot! Kill, the genderist!, Kill the genderist!” one party goer reputedly said, inciting, the crowd.

According to Donnie, Dwyer, another, neighbor, Jacobson tried to justify, his hate, speech to the increasingly enraged mob. Said Dwyer, “Jacobson was, all like, ‘Look. I don’t know any, transgendered, people. I’ve never experienced anything, related to transgendered, people. I guess I just don’t get it, but as long as they are happy, I don’t care what, they do with their, bodies.” It was this response that set, the congregation, aflame.

Dwyer said his wife, Christine, was, the first to, respond. According, to Dwyer, Christine said, “You’re right; you don’t, get it! You don’t, care what they do with, their bodies? You think that they, need your permission, to live how, they want to live? And what, do you mean, by ‘they’, anyway? Do you, mean like ‘those people’, as if, they are, less than you? Huh? Answer, me!”

Before Jacobson, could respond, his, youngest, daughter, Leslee, 6, picked up a, rock and, threw it, at her father’s face, crushing his nose, causing, it to erupt! in a blood-filled explosion. “I couldn’t believe the nonsense? coming out of his mouth. He’s no father of mine,” Leslee said. “There’s, no room for that, kind of, hate in today’s world. I may only, be only six years old, but eve, I know that.”

The rest of the?! party goers, followed suit, picking up, rocks and throwing them at Jacobson’s?, head, and, testicals. “The more he bled and cried out, in pain, the more it, furied the gathering,” said Connie Durango, a neighbor!! who once borrowed 10, thousand dollars from?! Jacobson to help pay for her adolescent son’s, funeral after he passed away in a car accident. “If he thinks. lending someone in need all the money he has in the world, when he has to work two jobs to support his daughters because his wife passed away from cancer immediately after giving birth to the second daughter, is enough to justify his hate-filled, rhetoric, he’s wrong. Dead wrong,”

“Those who are, transgender are human, too! It’s people, like you that bring violence, to the, LGBT community,” one neighbor!!!! is professed to have screamed as he hurled a rock at, Jacobson’s skull. The blast shattered his orbital bone. Another rock, thrown? immediately after, left a deep indentation, in the front, of his skull.

It was then that, VanDerveer motioned for, everyone to,? stop throwing. “I hate, that s.o.b. with all my heart, but, in that moment, I decided to give him one last chance,” VanDerveer, said. VanDerveer,??? then asked, the question which would!?!?,, seal Jacobson’s fate.

“Do black, lives matter, or do all lives matter!!” is the, query that was posed. Jacobson, barely conscious, responded, “Well, all lives matter, don’t they? Is, this a trick question!?. I mean, yeah, obviously, black lives matter, but everyone’s life matters. I, want everyone, to be happy, and feel safe, regardless of race, or religion, or gender or, sexuality or, profession or whatever, other differences, exist.”

There was a, collective moan, of outrage, which, registered, across the spectrum, of people, who heard the audacious statement,” VanDerveer said. “It was then that I knew, we all, knew, he had,??! to die.”!!!

“Wrong answer!?? You racist?!” someone allegedly screamed. Turned on, by the, collective outrage of the flock,,,, Jacobson’s oldest, daughter, Sarah, 13, then decided to, end it.

“I just, couldn’t listen, to his b.s. point-of-view anymore. I grabbed,?! a steak knife, slit his, throat,? and we all watched him bleed all the way to Hell where he belongs. My mother would,, be ashamed of the man he’s become,” Sarah, said with, no sense, of remorse. “That kind,! of hate can’t be, tolerated in our, society. This is 2016. We, are better, than that. We have, to be, better than, that.”

As he passed away, his, face and genitalia destroyed, those, at the party purportedly spit, urinated, and defecated, on his, rotting??? corpse.

“He just, didn’t get, it,”!! Leslee said. “He just, didn’t, get it.”,,,?!??

Painful moment wrote:

So the conversation had been fine, and she was asking about my past competing at a major conference school, she then asks "so how far are you able to run?" I don't even know what the answer could possibly be...how far can I go until my body completely shuts down and I die?

Do you have an exceptionally literal mind or are you just trolling ?

quality control wrote:

ARII wrote:

I've been asked "how far can you run until you get tired" and I must say that stumped me. So I guess your not alone.

You think that's a dumb question, yet you can't use punctuation.

Concrete-minded autists like the OP and ARII really have trouble with human conversation. That's OK, I'll make that girl happy when the OP can't.

Your punctuation is terrible. I'd like to correct it, but I have some laundry to do.

Telling your date that you were once a runner is right up there with "My cat's breath smells like cat food".

OP wrote:

"Aside from that, it was pretty pleasant and we're actually going out again Friday and meeting with her friends for a casual drink after. I'm just going to avoid the topic of competing coming up..."

You're going to avoid the topic of competing? That's going to be next to impossible. You're going out with her friends who volunteer and serve overseas to help people in need, all in the name of a benevolent God. I can't imagine they'll have anything on their minds but your fourth place finish from 7 years ago.

You must not get laid much or talk to women in general. If that line of questioning stumped you, then give up now.

She considers running/track as not a legitimate sports. It's something you do to prepare for real sports. A lot of people think this way.

Olivia Munn didn't know Aaron Rodgers played football when they met.

Just change the topic. E.g., I do my best to direct questions like that into a discussion of unit size, preferably mine.

Senile Old Man wrote:

Olivia Munn didn't know Aaron Rodgers played football when they met.

And Nicole didn't know O.J. was famous, neither. How'd that one work out?