The place you see as your next dinner date, could be the working destination for shirking the responsibility of what some people take as an easy and free avenue of meeting people. In short, that gal you met sitting somewhere on or near your office desk when you returned after topping off the water cooler conversation could be someone you know is already closer than a car ride.
Steady hands type diligently in chat rooms and profile forms for plans of marriage or savage meetings in circles who may or may not have any real or definable social graces to speak of or even write home about. Standing tall with all this dating excitement tends to create a late or delayed response in a person's despondency level if that partner seems to be a bit hungry for anything but salad.
Watching your checkbook can be the easiest way to play the game. And keeping an eye on the quirks a potential partner has from the get go, not necessarily including their operating system but how they operate, smooth or otherwise can lesson the pressure had in an encounter with someone who may or may not carry enough baggage or expectations for the encounter to become too considerably painful.