Have Him at Hello: Confessions From 1,000 Guys About What Makes Them Fall in Love . . . Or Never Call Back by Rachel Greenwald
Author:Rachel Greenwald
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307406545
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2010-03-09T00:00:00+00:00
“Women are so jaded now they don’t even recognize a good guy when he shows up.”
PESSIMISM
I heard several anecdotes about women who saw the glass as half-empty. Tobias, a sixty-one-year-old cosmetics distributor in St. Louis, MO, excitedly told his date, Ellen, about his future plans to expand his business overseas. He explained that it was a bold move for him, how it would involve taking out a second mortgage on his house, but that he thought he could do it successfully. Ellen told him, “I don’t know. You should be happy with what you’ve got: a nice house and a solid business. There are so many things that could go wrong: changes in the economy, currency fluctuations, international tax issues. I wouldn’t risk it.” He was turned off by her attitude. He said, “I want a partner who encourages me to seize the day!”
As an author, I meet a lot of women in the publishing world, especially great single editors. I recently played matchmaker to a cute, vivacious editor I know. I fixed her up with my art dealer friend in Manhattan. His name is Tate, and he’s a voracious reader. Prior to the date, he told me he was excited to hear her stories from inside the book world. But when I found out later that Tate didn’t want a second date with the editor, I asked him why (of course!). He told me, “After dating in New York for twenty years, I have one important criterion: someone who sees the glass as half-full. You can tell whether a woman does or doesn’t by the way she answers the most basic questions.” Tate said one example was that he asked my editor friend whether the infamous “slush pile”10 he’d heard about really existed, and if so, what kinds of manuscripts she had seen in there over the years. She related some details about several boring manuscripts and bad proposals she had read, and lamented how there weren’t any unique topics anymore. He told me, “She selected everything negative to tell me about her job. Instead of saying, ‘My favorite manuscript was X,’ she picked out all the bad ones to describe.” I reminded him that he had inquired about the slush pile—a pile notorious for 999 bad manuscripts for every good one. His response was, “Then I’m looking for the girl who tells me about that one good manuscript.”
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