Midwestern You Sly Devil!
Can't believe you had all this juicy detail queued up in your brain and were hoarding it until I prompted you! You bad boy!
Great FR. I literally LOL as I visualized a hopelessly drunk MW consuming a whole bucket of KFC. Hahaha. Still laughing.
Keep it up man (literally and figuratively)! The girls that is. Not mass KFC consumption!
Flake rate and first date strategy
For the first meet, the flake rate is very high indeed. For me, maybe it was about 80%, with most of them being last minute cancellations. Sometimes they just did not show up, but that was kind of rare. Some would cancel well in advance, but that was also rare.
I won't go into all the reasons why the flaking happens, but just expect it.
Therefore, (1) don't book a hotel room in advance on a first date, and (2) have a backup plan.
I don't know how many times I drove over an hour for a first date, only to be flaked on and then stuck with a paid-for hotel room.
Eventually, I chose meeting places that I wanted to check out anyway. So, when the date flaked, I at least got to check out a new bar or new neighborhood.
Also, for the first date, I stopped doing dinners. For me, they were hit or miss, and when they were a miss, then I was stuck on a boring date for two painful hours. That said, when the dinner date was going well, it went very well. So, totally hit or miss, and given the misses, I stopped doing dinner dates as a first date.
For the second dates, the flake rate was almost zero for me, and I assume similar for you guys.
As for flying SA girls to meet me somewhere, I only did it twice, and both times they showed up. However, this was only after we were seeing each other. I would never fly a girl into town for a first date. Many girls say they are willing to do that, but I never took the chance.
Anyway, my attitude for first dates with an SA gal was to not have high expectations. You might then ask why I bothered. That is because there were the occassional pleasant surprises, and that made all the time and work worthwhile.