Coming up for nine years ago I started auditions for the first series of “So you think you can date” and after nine years the producers and I thought we might have got down to at least the semi-finals by now, but it would appear that we are still putting together those audition episodes where the people with no clue show up thinking they are Mr Right.
There have been a few with serious talent show up over the years but they’ve stumbled in the auditions or given it their all too early and burnt out quickly. There have been others that would have been serious contenders for the title but at the last minute they’ve decided on an alternate competition or we’ve discovered a pre-existing contract elsewhere.
One or two others have showed up and a bit like those cranky-hungry girls on America’s Next Top Anorexic have thought they already had the title and were out shopping for jewellery and a picket fence when our audition bus hit the accelerator and left their deluded arses behind.
It’s funny that as I get older some things that were on the list as mandatories are now not at all important but other things have stepped up to replace them. One day we’ll find a winner, hopefully and we can settle in for the ride.
That’s why I’ve stopped dating all together. Several months ago I decided that going out on dates with people I hardly know, or being set up, or meeting online, just never works out. I believe the only way it’s ever going to happen is through a circumstance completely unrelated to dating - such as: we work together, we were in a stage production together, or we happened to get to know each other through mutual friends but weren’t set up in any way. I’ve even told my friends, “Please - if you’re going to set me up with someone, do NOT tell me about it. Invite us both out, but don’t let me know that you’re hoping something will happen. I am less likely to act like myself if I know and if they’re truly interested, they will fall for the real me.”
Very clever post! I love it.
Maybe the producers of the show need to find another talent scout.
I’m about ready to shutter my own production as well.