We recently heard from Mira, who had a very bad weekend-long blind date with Alex, who lives five hours away.

Among Alex's sins were wearing mom jeans and Old Spice, making Mira walk/run for a boat ride, taking the last piece of pizza home for his breakfast and burping at will.

Mira's friend Chuck offered Alex some advice, saying he should have met Mira and her friends for drinks and bought a round, thanked her for making breakfast, followed her lead with the boat tour, since they were on her home turf, and made a reservation at a nice restaurant instead of going to a pizza parlor.

Here's what you had to say about it:

EDMUND: If I were Mira, I'd question the motives of the friend who set them up. I was set up by a friend once. It turned out that the photo I was given of my date was taken about 100 pounds prior to date night. It also turned out my friend was just looking for a way to get her friend out of the house.

ANNALISE: I don't think Alex or Chuck were right, or Mira, for that matter. Of the three, I'm inclined to be most sympathetic to Alex. He spent 10 hours driving and paid for two nights in a hotel for this disastrous weekend.

Some of Chuck's suggestions, such as Alex meeting Mira's friends and buying a round, would indeed have made him look suave. But both Chuck and Mira seem to take for granted the time, money and effort Alex put in just to get there. He's supposed to pay for his gas, his hotel and all other aspects of the weekend date, and impress all of her friends, too?

(CHERYL: By agreeing to come, Alex implied he could afford the trip and still have some money left for a nice time. And about that last piece of pizza...)

It would have been generous of Mira to offer Alex the pizza, since she presumably has a stocked kitchen at home and he was going back to his second night at the hotel.

(CHERYL: Ugh! Offer someone a piece of pizza to keep overnight unrefrigerated? She might as well have taken out a gun and shot him!)

Chuck's suggestions mostly seem to be about how to get into a woman's pants. He said, "Whenever there's alcohol, a woman and a Friday night involved, go, no matter how tired you are" and "If a woman can't drink with you, she's not going to sleep with you."

(CHERYL: Let's be grown-ups. No guy is going to drive five hours without at least the hope that there's some action in his future.)

But the real problem here is a weekend-long first date. Mira and Alex should have chosen a location in the middle and spent an afternoon together.

(CHERYL: Great idea!)

If she wasn't willing to put in that much effort, why even bother? What would they have done if the date had gone well? Launched into a long-distance relationship after only having met once? This debacle demonstrates that it's really foolish to be set up on a blind date with someone who lives so far away.

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