Low Interest Credit Cards | Worst Credit Cards For A First Date
October 24, 2011 – 1:10 pm
If you’re a man taking out a woman on a first date, you’re in trouble right from the start. Even before you cup your hands over your mouth and nose for the 10th time to check for halitosis, you know that you’re about to be judged by a range of criteria that’s entirely alien to you.
You’re a simple soul. All you want is someone with a hot body, a great face, and an ability to laugh at your jokes, regardless of whether they’re funny. But what does she want? If you, as a man, have all of those, you’re off to a good start. But a start is all it is.
It doesn’t matter how much you look like McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy. If your boss regularly accuses you of being too dreamy, and your day job is serving Big Macs, your date is likely to subject you to careful scrutiny on a whole laundry list of stringent criteria.
And one of those may be the credit card with which you pay the bill (assuming she lets you) at the end of the evening of your first date. It’s not that you necessarily have to pick the most prestigious piece of plastic from your wallet, but it might be a good idea to match the card you use to the interests your date displayed during your time together. If you didn’t bother to elicit her interests, it’s unlikely to matter how (or how much) you pay.
Yes, you and your close friends who hang with you in your mom’s basement know how cool World of Warcraft (WoW) is. But, for some inexplicable reason, not all women instantly recognize this as a simple, indisputable fact.
That’s why (unless you’re happy yet again to postpone Your First Time) it’s often unwise to try to justify at length your close interest in this Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game on your first date. It could be similarly counterproductive if you were to decide to pay at the end of that date with your World of Warcraft Rewards Visa card, even if you have opted to have that card personalized to display your very own online character.
Not that it’s a bad card; at least, not if you like World of Warcraft. There’s no annual fee, and you get a one-off free month of WoW gaming providing you use your card during your first three billing cycles. After that, you can redeem the points you earn from these rewards credit cards for online game time.
Again, this is a question of playing your (credit) cards right. If your date speaks fluent Klingon, or if you met her at a Doctor Who convention, then by all means flash your plastic with pride. It could see you finally crossing that frustratingly distant final frontier. Otherwise, not so much.
Exactly the same strategic approach to credit card use when dating applies to those products emblazoned with the National Rifle Association logo. If your and her eyes met across a crowded shooting range in Dallas (come to think of it, if they met across pretty much anywhere in Texas), then there’s a good chance that, once she’s seen your NRA card, she’ll be as responsive to your needs as a Glock 19 with a ghost tactical trigger modification (whatever that is).
However, if you first encountered each other in a more liberal environment, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles or on a Boston university campus, you may prefer to pay your date check with anything other than NRA plastic.
Of course, the NRA card has a lot going for it. After all, how many CEOs of credit card companies are likely to knowingly alienate people who may
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