Your Problems Solved | 23 November 2002

Dear Mary…

Q. Please help! I recently met a wonderful girl whom I find quite enchanting. She’s beautiful, creative and successful in her own business, and I find that I am always thinking about her. I am concerned, however, that she might be a bit thick. While on her way to an important trade event in Paris, she asked me to recommend restaurants where she could take staff and clients. I recommended, among others, one of the newest and most chic ‘designer’ restaurants that I have frequented, as I often travel to Paris on business. On her return she thanked me for the recommendation. Recently, however, I was told quite confidentially that she didn’t consider me to be a suitable new friend because of this same recommendation. It seems that, by recommending something ‘cold and designer-like’ instead of a nice little Moroccan, my hopes for a relationship have been dashed. The real problem is that she asked me where to go on business, not where I would take her on a night out.