You're on a first date with someone and you're starting to feel bored. How do you handle things?...Do you try to switch the conversation around to a more interesting topic? (More interesting for you.)...How do you get a "long-winded" person (non-stop talker) to "wind-down" so you'll have a chance to talk and say a few things too?

I look for something positive about them that i can focus on until the end of the drink or dinner...waste not want not ya know??...or is it want not waste not...i fergit.

I will open a topic or maybe crack-up a joke. If his not interested then i'll have to wait for the time to be over with. If he's a non-stop talker the same with the first just wait for the time.. If i date someone i want an interaction of ideas. I want a challenge.

I go places where it is hard to be bored.

I easily get bored! So i guess i just ran away! No,dont ''lol''

With/out your date. Haha.kidding

Lol. Thats rude.

ha ha haaaa....i knowwwwwwww!!
Still,i ran away,even politely!! BUT,we dont want me saying it as it-''am bored to the bone''!!

I get quiet, remain cordial, smile tightly a lot, nod my head up and down A LOT, and insist on going dutch when the bill arrives....The end...

I give them the keys to the handcuffs so that they can get away.

Usually they just tell me "thank you" and leave.

Change venues.

"This place is kinds dead. Let's go to whatever. Things are always rocking over there."

I'd pretend I was really thirsty, and get drunk off the wine. . I may not be a drinker, but there are certain times when you know you'd be better off living in your own happy illusion for a few hours.

I actually had this happen once. I was on a date with this chick who just talked, and talked, and talked. I barely got in ten words. Lol. Thank goodness we were eating at a steakhouse that had football on, or else I would have probably stuck a fork in my head to ease the pain of her yapping.

Do My Best 2 Make it Fun, 4 Both of us

I'd probably handle it this way too...But what happens if the guy thinks the date "went well" and keeps calling? And wants to get together again? (Someone who won't "go away!")...I used to run into this "stuff" earlier in life. (Before I met and married my husband.)...I'd say that we didn't have a lot in common. (Or something like this.) But some of the guys acted like "wounded puppy dogs" and tried to make me feel guilty (or wrong) for "rejecting" them. (And not going on more dates with them.)...I "care" too much about other peoples' feelings at times! This is probably why I'm a loner...Don't want to open-up any "can of worms!" Or get in "sticky situations!"

Nine times out of ten, they know the date didn't "go well" but they convince themselves that the next one will (this is what I think anyway)...The ones who hang on, won't give up, are the price you pay for being nice I guess ...No way am I am going to be rude to a guy on a first date just because I find him boring and I would hope the same curtesy would be extended to me if the situation were reversed...Most of us can take a hint ...BUT...The ones who hang in, call, send flowers and gifts, stop in unannounced simply refuse to give up, have to be told in no uncertain terms that you are not interested in any kind of relationship with them...It sucks, but it comes with the territory... Sometimes "dating" feels like a chity job that doesn't pay crap!

First-off, there is no such thing as a boring date, just boring people. If you think you are having to endure a "boring date" maybe you should take a quick pulse-check and see if it is you causing the bore. If you determine (be honest and don't lie to others, and most definitely don't lie to yourself!) that it is you, man-up/woman-up and ask, "am I boring you?" and get some guidance - there may be one of a million other things going on in that person's life...

I will admit to not being a mega-exciting, jet-skiing, hike-taking guy, but with my personality, boredom is an improbability.

Ok, boring date, boring people...Really not much difference since boring would be in the eye of the beholder....You may be better than some of us at determining before the first date who will or will not be a good personality match...For me, I have to get up close and personal...Eye contact, body language, social skills, and more would play a part in whether I find a "first" date boring, exciting, or just OK enough to have a second date....And the question, "Am I boring you?" is risky because some might take offense and who knows what might follow...I look at first dates as a test run for him and for me...If that sounds superficial, tough beans...I don't buy cars without driving them first either....

It's boring when one or both people talk "at" each other versus "with" each other...This is how I feel anyway...Some people are just looking for an "audience." They seem to have a need to "tell all" about themselves and don't always show much interest in sincerely getting to know others...They might stop once in a great, great while and say: "Tell me about you." But it's short-lived and they manage to flip the conversation right back to themselves right away...It reminds me of how my sons acted when they were small and came home from school. At that stage of their development they considered themselves the "center of the universe." And they saw me as a "non-person" who was just on earth to listen to them and support them etc...Little by little I set them "straight!" Had to "burst" their "bubble" and let them know that they weren't the absolute "center of the universe" and the only ones who "counted" or "mattered."