A few last men to beware: guys who won't remove their hats and sunglasses - they think you're too thick to notice the stuff they think they're hiding.
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.
Before social discomfort causes you to flee, Silver Lake offers opportunities to feel ill at ease in some of Los Angeles' most artistic-looking rooms.
Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.
Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.
Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign.
Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
I also don't trust picky eaters, guys who get manicures or, even worse, pedicures, and guys who talk on their cell phones in front of you at dinner.
I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.
I, too, have never seen an episode of Moesha, and even more amazing, I have never even read a TV Guide description of an episode.
If he smells stinky or doesn't have time to call, it probably isn't because he's so busy. It's because he doesn't really care what you think. Period.
If you begin a conversation about potato salad and find yourself being called a castrating bitch, don't waste your time going around and around about this with your girlfriends, trying to figure out what happened.
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.
Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.
My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.
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