Going on a blind date is an extremely stressful event. You don’t know who the person is, you don’t know what they like and you’re constantly worrying about what to say on the date. As cool as most of us would like to play it, the thoughts rushing through our minds are usually the same. Here are a few of them: 1. What if they don’t even show up? Being stood up is usually the worst thing that we believe could happen on a date. You get all dressed up, and get out of the house and the thought of being left alone on the date is by far the worst thing that you see happening on the date. The last thing you want to do is to become a topic of bet among the waiters. 2. They could totally be a murderer. Paranoia is everyone’s best friend before a blind date. We watch too many movies, and our imagination is probably running absolutely wild. To us, chances of them being a serial killer, a drug addict, a thief or a murderer are extremely high. 3. What if we turn out to be related? This is one of the many uncomfortable thoughts that come to mind. The idea of the person you’re on a date with, turning out to be someone who you’re distantly related to is all kinds of awkward. Hey, you don’t know them and they don’t know you. It could happen. 4. I should've got my friends to come too. We all would feel a lot better if we could have our friends shadily lurking at a nearby table, on a blind date. This usually becomes a safe solution to most of the earlier mentioned problems. Your friends will always come to the rescue just in case all the negative thoughts in your mind comes true. 5. I should text my friends a safe word. You know a safe word. A word you can text all your buddies in case things start to go bad. Their job after that is to come up with a situation that will get you out of there as soon as possible. 6. We have nothing in common. Nerves usually get the best of us on the first date. Because we’re usually trying so hard to impress and make sure it goes well, nothing goes right. We automatically assume that we have nothing in common with them, that they don’t like us, and that this is our last ever blind date. 7. Is he trying to touch me? That’s usually the first place her mind will go. A slight brush of the leg or touching of hands is overblown into much more than it really is. This again is all because of our nerves running wild. 8. She’s totally sending me signals. Again, because you want the date to have been a success, everything she does is seen as a signal to you. She looked into your eyes means that she is definitely into you, yeah?