During the dating portion of the evening, a predetermined group of individuals will stay seated at the same tables throughout the night, while the rest of the participants will move from table to table. When the allotted time is up, the host will ring a buzzer or bell signifying that it is time to move to the next date. Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process of dating system whose purpose is to encourage people to meet a large number of new people. Its origins are credited to Rabbi Yaacov Deyo of Aish Ha Torah, originally as a way to help Jewish singles meet and marry. Men and women are rotated to meet each other over a series of short "dates" usually lasting from three to eight minutes depending on the organization running the event. At the end of each interval, the organizer rings a bell, clinks a glass, or blows a whistle to signal the participants to move on to the next date. At 23, I suppose this was an experience scarier than trying to pass my driving test for the first time in the skimpiest skirt ever. The only person I knew was the organizer who was married, and then it’s just us girls against a whole table full of men. Know the rules (Credits) The standard operating procedure would be to take a seat, and wait for the alert to find a partner, then switch partners by the next 15 minutes.
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