Style On Wheels

[$28, DaWanda]

While I didn’t need Shaun to remind me that Vespas are way cool, it seems that the evidence is mounting in favor of this sleek scooter’s ability to attract members of the opposite sex. 

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Skate Date Now Obsolete

Once upon a time, couples went roller blading or ice skating on their first dates.

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Be a Cool Reader

[$249, CoolReaders]

If I were to rely on iPod flirting as my primary means of getting action, I’d eventually become revirginized. My music library includes the likes of Billy Joel, Bette Midler, and the Reading Rainbow theme song.

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Robbing the Cradle

[$69, Banana Republic]

We’ve already discussed secret dating weapons and conversation pieces.

Why not make that concept work side by side with man’s eternal quest for the hot younger woman?

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Search By Location IRL

[$100-$300, Maya Brenner Designs]

When surfing personals sites, one can easily search by location, even going so far as to input zip code info and specify a mileage radius.

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Week In Review: May 22

Okay. I’m gonna pretend that y’all are actually still here, paying attention to me, and not yet bbq-ing it up, sunbathing on the beach, or going on romantic picnics without me.

…

Oh hell. I’m not even here. In fact, I’ve just arrived in upstate NY wine country, and am about to sink my tootsies into this B&B hot tub.

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Happy Hour: Shoot to Spill

Enjoy role playing? Enjoy drinking heavily?

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Safe Date: Wear Protection

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Elements of a Good Nighttime Bike Ride:

• relatively empty streets
• the cool night air
• a beautifully starry night sky
• an undercurrent of danger and excitement, due to the fact that you could get plowed down by a car at any moment

Why not share that with a special someone?

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Pockets Full of Posies

[$21.95, MoMA]

Has anyone seen that Hallmark commercial where the wife slips a card into her husband’s suit pocket right before he flies out the door? And then he comes back and says, earnestly, “I love you, too”? And then I cry?

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Talk To Me, Baby

[$21, Umbra]

There was always something special about the college dorm atmosphere: the close quarters…the scent of pheromones lingering in the air…the communal showers and towel-wrapped hot, young bodies roaming the halls…the possibility of meeting a guy in the elevator one week and ending up in his bed one floor up a mere few weeks later…

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