Dinner with an Online Date

Online dating. No matter what you think about it, your experiences with it or your non-experiences with it, there is no denying that online dating has become part of the American way of life.

You can't get a date or someone to suck your dick? Look online. Either there's someone just as desperate as you, someone who's looking to score money quickly, or someone working for Dateline's To Catch a Predator.

Of course there are problems. There are people who pose as someone else. There are people you can't trust and who will only use you. There are perverts everywhere.

So what about those people who actually do find love?

Online dating has never really been safe. You have no guarantee that the person you've been talking to is actually who he or she says. How can you be sure that the photos they sent you really are of them, and not some friend or random person?

Introducing Dinner with an Online Date. Intended for those who don't want a webcam or are too poor/scared of meeting their love in real life.

I'm proposing the idea of a chain of restaurants that caters to people who date online. Tables for two all over the place, soft music, impeccably dressed waiters...everything that makes a fancy restaurant what it is. The only difference is that at each table for two, one of the seats is occupied by a monitor with a webcam attached.

Let's say that a woman sits down across from this monitor. Her date, who lives in a different city and quite possibly a different state, but at the same restaurant, is being displayed on the monitor across from her. Where he is, he's seeing her on the monitor. They can converse in real time, eat dinner together, and see how the other person behaves in real life. Sorry, no masks allowed.

Would this actually work? Perhaps. Would there still be perverted liars who would try to use this service to their advantage? Most probably, but it would add at least some kind of security to online dating. Would I actually open up a business like this? Hell no, but if someone is crazy enough to get it started, reserve me a table.