"She had the most piercing laugh Ive ever heard. Everyone in the restaurant stared, and I wanted to crawl under the table."

As many single many people know, finding a quality date is almost always comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.

Are you depressed because you cant meet anyone within your work or school environment? Are you tired of answering personal ads in the newspaper, fearing that the human you meet can really be a crazed stalker or worse? Are you fed up chatting with someone on the Internet for weeks, only to find out that in human , your date has no teeth, a wife, and six children? Are you bored with the harsh bar scene?

Finally, are you just plain sick of wondering why you cant meet someone face-to-face with no pressure, and get to understand them a little before deciding to go on a date with them?

Now you may.

Allow me to introduce Speed Dating. For all of you depressed, bored, tired, and fed up singles out there, Speed Dating is a hot new trend unfolding in big cities as well as small towns all over the world. Speed Dating has taken dating to a whole new level - a simplified level.

Speed Dating was founded in 1999 by Los Angeles rabbi Yaacov Deyo, who wanted to give Jewish men and women the opportunity to quickly find potential mates. Since then, the fad has spread far beyond Los Angeles and the Jewish community. Nowadays, you may find Speed Dating just about anywhere. These events are commonly held at restaurants, cafes and coffee houses. You might find advertisements for them in your local newspaper, and even on localized online Speed Dating websites. A Speed Dating session usually costs about $25.

So how does this magical dating system work? Its elegant. Put on your sharpest clothes and your most sparkling smile. Then, simply show up to a Speed Dating event. You will be given a name tag, a score card, and ten seven-minute sessions to go on dates with ten different people. Its like playing musical chairs... with a little bit of flirting involved. In your seven minutes with each other, you and your date are allowed to discuss anything except your age, occupation, or place of residence. This is done to allow you to get to understand what the person youre talking to is truly like on the inside.

After each seven minute session is up, a bell is rung and you move on to your next date. Following each session, you and your date mark on your score cards whether you would be interested in meeting each other again. If you both mark each other on the card, the speed dating organizers will provide the both of you with each others phone number at the end of the event.

The positive side to Speed Dating is that if you dont like the human you are talking to, you do not have to worry about spending an entire night with them. If the human has no teeth, you only have to sit with them for 7 minutes. Of course, you wont understand if they are a crazed stalker, or if they have a wife and six kids... but a first impression face-to-face will hopefully give your intuition something to go on.

One downside to Speed Dating is that if you are a shy human , and not very confident with building small talk with a stranger, you might find the whole thing a bit stressful. A solution to this is preparing some topics to discuss in advance of your dating session. Making a dazzling first impression in 7 minutes is tough, but not impossible. The key to successful Speed Dating is being yourself, having a sense of humor, and just having fun it.

No matter where you are from or what type of human you are, you will encounter a room full of people, some who have the identical feelings about dating as you. And with Speed Dating, you might just be able to find that right human in the nick of time.