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. In truth, I know a wonderfully romantic Moroccan restaurant in the rue de Gravilliers where I would love to take her, if only I had the chance to make amends. Is there any hope in pursuing this, Mary, or should I take my wounded pride and move on?
Name and address withheld
A. Clearly your potential new partner made a rush to judgment based on inadequate findings. The recommendation of Pershing Hall should not have been enough to condemn you. May I suggest that you knock up a six-minute homemade video in the manner of the American television programme Lives of the Rich and Famous to give a truer picture of your lifestyle, tastes and preferences, and forward it to the beauty in question? You can then sit back and wait for her revisionist response to this exercise.
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