CAN I GET a MAN WITH THAT?

HowAboutWe… Ask the Expert

Aaron and Brian of HowAboutWe tells us what’s what on five confessions—among them, bad dates, male scuffles and sex in public places.

1. King of Bad Dates 

Can I Get A Man With That? — It’s true! A guy had the audacity to take one of our contributors to Burger King on a first date. And yes, it was in New York. 

HowAboutWe — Half-way through this confession, we’re thinking, “If this is real, this chick has got to go. Got. To. Go.”  You CAN cut off a bad date at any point, if you’ve got it like that. Date how you want to. There is no shame in ditching a date if he or she is a tool. 

2. Guys And Balls

CIGAMWT — We’ll put this in the contributor’s own words: “I will never forget the image of two Italian men, engaged in a screaming fit over me…one with his balls hanging out of my pants.”

HAW — Congratulations. 

3. A Class Act

CIGAMWT — We’re gonna make an educated guess that every teen has fantasized at least once about getting it on in a janitor’s closet. These brave souls actually did it. Too bad they got caught.

HAW — Brian got away with this one in high school. (Senior lounge)

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The First Date Redux: HowAboutWe

The kindergarten BFFs behind HowAboutWe answer our 15 Questions on New York’s dumpling forecast, Gaga’s passé Telephone and the new first date. Their contribution to society: A non-lame dating site that matches singles based on actual date proposals that start with “How about we …” As in how about we … go to a karaoke bar and butcher songs from our birth year. Pretty genius, right? 

Name: Aaron Schildkrout and Brian Schechter

Status: Single and Single

Position: Co-founders of online dating site HowAboutWe.com 

Who’s your favorite couple, living or dead, real or fictional?

It’s a tie between Michelle and Barack and Richard and Julia (in Pretty Woman, of course).

Have either of you ever offended anyone on a date? 

Um. Yes. (Editor’s note: We tried to pry for juicy deets, sadly Aaron and Brian don’t kiss and tell)

In 140 characters or less, what is HowAboutWe?

HowAboutWe is a new kind of dating website that puts ‘the date’ back in dating — while also taking the ‘online’ out of ‘online dating.’

We’re reluctantly of the non-date generation. What makes you think HowAboutWe can bring the date back?

People get sick of the non-date after a while. They want a more interesting, stimulating experience than a tepid coffee shop conversation.

‘Textversations’ and e-flirting also make us queasy. It’s kinda ironic that Gaga had a hit called Telephone. Have the days of butterfly-inducing phone calls been banished to the same black hole as missing socks and MySpace?

Technology has definitely changed the dynamics of the progression of a relationship. Phone calls can seem like a big intrusion now, whereas they used to be a normal, expected part of courtship. But if a guy is really into you, he will call — just maybe not every day for 45 minutes — and he’ll use texts as an unobtrusive way to let you know he’s thinking about you between calls.

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