Finding a partner has always been a complicated process. It is a ritual which has evolved over the world; from a man taking food to a prospective partner in the Stone Age to young couples having tea together in Modern Age to dancing in a club to deafening music in the twenty-first century.
But now busy men and women who don't have the time for slow and gentle courtship have a quicker way to find a partner: speed dating, where single people have exactly three minutes to decide if the person they are talking to could be Mr. and Mrs. Right. The idea, which started in the USA, involves bringing together people for an evening of frenzied "quick-fire" dating. This is how it works.
Small tables are placed in a line and the women sit down at the one which has been given to them. They say at their table all evening. The men take it in turns to sit next to each woman and have a very quick conversation. After 3 minutes a bell rings and, even if you are in mid-sentence, it is time for the man to move to the next table. If you like the person you have just spoken to, you put a tick in the 'yes' box on a scorecard. If the other person chooses you as well, this is called a 'match', and the organisers will send you the other person's email address a couple of days later and they will be sent yours too. ' Three minutes is enough time to talk to someone' says Adele Testani, who runs a speed dating company, 'because you can get an idea of what a person is like in that time and you can eliminate them if you see immidiately that they're not your type.'
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