Weekend Brunch Dating Tips and Advice – Stanley Cup for Singles

OK, yeah, I’m a hockey fan.  I might have lived out in the West for like 20 year now.  But scratch the surface, wait until the Stanley Cup playoffs, and trigger the frothing over the mouth enthusiasm of a Northeastern raised girl.  We are born and bread hockey fans.  I can even actually explain the penalty of “Icing.” So, I’m using the Stanley Cup playoffs to illustrate and provide some examples for singles, especially single women, for how to organize your time of what you are already doing and enjoying to give yourself an edge to meet more people.  Hockey is merely the illustrative example.  You might be more genuinely a fan of another sport.  That is totally cool.  Take these dating success principles and apply them to your sport and your location.

So, we are now in the division finals of Stanley Cup Hockey.  What that means is that we are literally enjoying a glut of games.  Typically that means 3-4 games to watch each weekend for at least 2 weekends.  Not to mention the 2 games on certain weekdays.  And of course, because we are fundamentally hockey fans as well as fans of our local hockey team, we are often watching the games from the series not just the one OUR team is in.  Part of the hockey fan rationale (looking into the mind of a hockey fan) is we want to get an idea of the other teams, the players, and how they play so that when we get to the semi-finals and finals we already have an idea and opinion of how they will play.  So even though, having lived in San Francisco for years, I am ergo a good loyal local fan of the San Jose Sharks, I am watching the Boston Bruins vs. Philadelphia Flyers game today.  There will also be another game tonight.

The multiple games offers you multiple opportunities to get out and meet other people.  So the Bruins v Flyers game.  Here in the Pacific Time zone it started in the morning.  That would mean, go to a weekend brunch venue where there is a Television set.  A number of the very nice hotel chains often have a fabulous weekend brunch with a classy think 1940s-esque bar area with a – praise God – large screen tv.  So you can nibble on your omelet and cheer on the game and your team of choice.  Oh, yeah, being from New Jersey originally, I cheer on any team who is beating the Flyers.  We may respect individual players on the team.  However, I am who I am and remain true to my roots.  Talk about conditioning and mental frame.  Yup.  I’m biased.

Dating Tip Brunch Strategy – Chat at the Food Stations

While you are at each of the food stations at your brunch location do chat up others who are there.  Going to and from the line of food at a brunch buffet gives you short little opportunities to chat and utter 2 – 4 sentences with strangers and lightly flirt.

Dating Brunch Strategy – Make Frequent Trips to the Food Stations

Put small amount of food on your plate.  Not only do we all always invariably put too much food on our plates at buffets, by putting small amount of food on your plate that means you will make more trips and frequent trips up to the Food Stations.

Dating Brunch Strategy – Do Flirt at the Food Stations

If you are carrying on a light flirtation with someone, by making frequent trips to the food stations you provide them with cute, funny, and engaging opportunities for the others to come flirt with you.  Even uttering the completely funny and goofy one liners of, “We’ve got to stop meeting like this,” or “You come here often,” when spoken with a sense of humor will break the ice and typically make the other person giggle.  Once giggling, you two have more opportunities then to converse.

Now what happens if today is just not the day for there being other singles in your T.I.P. demographic?  Are you “wasting” your time?  Nope.  Instead, follow the advice of Stephen Sills, “Love the One You’re With.” Flirt engagingly with the people who are there.  This might mean that you banter charmingly with an older lady old enough to be your Great Aunt Agatha or an elderly gentleman who could have been your grandfather.  Go ahead.  Sow the seed of good karma.  You’ll make their day when you hold a door for her or flirt with him reminding him he is still a man.  The more you make being gracious and charming your habitual behavior, the easier it will be to be like that when you are with a T.I.P. for you.

As you practice your charming behavior and character of kindness, fun, and warmth, those attributes make you an increasingly attractive life partner prospect for another.  People who want a relationship are looking for that in a potential life partner.  They know that character matters for the relationship success long haul.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell
Dating and Relationship Expert