Need Ideas for a Crazy blind date

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

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I have an entire structure/story/ and character arc laid out for this short story I am working on. In the story the main character is on a blind date with a crazy girl. She is hyper, drinks, smokes, steals, etc... and they are both 18-19 years old.

What I am lacking are some minor events within the big story plot points. These are simply the first few incidents where the boy questions whether he should leave or continue the date.

So here is the question... what would a relatively attractive girl have to do to get you to consider that she might be wrong for you.

The plot point I already have in which he makes his on-screen "final decision" to stay or leave...is when she is about to steal a car and wants him to go with her. I need events leading up to this moment which will make him wonder about her, but not have to make the final decision to stay or leave. The location is the Santa Monica pier and surrounding beach area. Thanks!

lol I hope I just made sense. Thanks! :beer:


If you want a good example of this, remember the "30 rock" episode with Jennifer Aniston? She is the crazy girl who steals the cops gun, gives it to her date, and screams "he's got a gun!"

haha think along those lines but not THAT crazy! You can't go over grand theft auto, which is the characters point of no return. Think wild, but nothing disgusting... you know? She is wild, dangerous, and crazy, but very attractive and desirable visually. She is the reckless youth, and he is the 'normal' teen.

Thanks!
 
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You want scenes showing moral corner cutting right? That couldn't be too hard. Using Limewire, lying, petty theft, justifying a petty theft, swapping a price tag.
 
How many things does she do before he decided to leave, even big things? It would only take one before someone of sense might consider leaving, should it may be something she does that makes him want to stay, something sexy or alluring that allows you to explore the conflict his going through a little more.
 
There's always the whole "running out before you get the check" thing. You'd need to do something to freshen this up, as it's been done many times before, but hopefully you can think of something.
 
It sounds like a good fun story but as vroom mentioned it has been done before ,so what ever it is will have to be different enough to where people wont compare it to other movies in the same boat.i would think that every time he's ready to leave the date she does something to keep him there even know he knows its eating at his moral being as yeddi said.yeah coming up with ideas is not easy as most have been done but there has to be something good.i will keep thinking and ask my wife,she's pretty creative, and if i come up with any thing i will get back to the post.sorry i couldn't be more help.
 
In addition to hyper, drinks, smokes, steals, I might add jealousy and possessiveness.
Makes accusations, either for the purpose of manipulation or from bad memory or making poor judgments due to being drunk, causing one to always be defensive.
Having a bad circle of friends she thinks are cool.
Being a money pit gold digger. Bad credit.
Poor hygene. Bad manners in public possibly constantly embarassing.
All of the local police greet her by name while passing her on the street.

There could be many small events in there.
 
Did you see the Bruce Willis film "Blind Date"? Don't do any of that (but watch it -- it's a pretty good film). Also don't do anything that's obvious or cliche.

Instead of having her as a wild-child (done to death), why not have her be a computer nerd who happens to be on the run from the Russian mafia AND the FBI for a credit-farming scam that's going bad -- and it's all going down WHILE she's on her date (for example.)
 
Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
So here is the question... what would a relatively attractive girl have to do to get you to consider that she might be wrong for you.
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Bringing her Boyfriend is always a turn off. Finding the biggest meanest guys in the place, then starting a fight with them is also bad. Following the waiter back to the Restroom isn't too good either. But I don't think that is the kind of girl you want... How about lifting unfinished drinks as she walks by tables? Snagging tip money off the next table, or dropping silverware, dishes, salt and pepper shakers into her purse. Doing a line of coke on the table, or drinking from a bottle in her purse.
 
Thanks so much for all of the comments!

Wonderful stuff. Great help.

I know this has been done before, and I am making it as unique as I can. I hope you understand that I have left many of the unique and interesting plot points out of my aforementioned summary.

I will have to check out that Bruce Willis movie... never even heard of it.

Thanks again!

PS: and yes, he is always considering leaving after all of these incidents but a womans attractiveness often will have a man stay until his breaking point. We are simple creatures.
 
Invites strangers of either gender and dubious appearance to join in a threesome (this does not have to be explicitly stated; it's weird and uncomfortable and potentially funny enough, if simply implied)

Affects a thick foreign accent when speaking to waiters

Earnestly pushes the subject of religion

Invites you to join her later to throw paint on fur-store patrons

Carries a small tin of cockroaches for the purpose of conning free restaurant meals

Picks the pocket of one passerby and places his wallet into the pocket of another

Continuously speaks in movie quotes - the more melodramatic, the better
 
Sounds alot like the girl from "My Sassy Girl", only that this one's older. There's an american remake of the south korean one.
 
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