Set up

Brian Ang is interviewed by Toni Seidel at the Spokane Christian Singles Speed Dating at Cafe Donna in Spokane.

There’s no upside to setting people up. At best, you’re stuck writing a speech for a wedding; at worst, you find out your friends cry during sex. When I found out you could get paid to set people up, however, I got a lot more interested. I asked Barbie Adler, CEO of Selective Search, to let me spend a day setting up men who pay her a minimum of $20,000 a year to set them up on dates with women who want to be set up with men who pay $20,000 a year to be set up on dates. This was the kind of love I could deliver.

I got to Barbie’s office in Chicago, where I was the only man employed. All the women who interview her clients were attractive and had posters and sculptures about love in their office. This was not the tone I was going to set with my clients. Joel Stein, Time.com Read more.

Fun read. Have you ever been set up on a date? How’d it turn out?
H/T Beth B.