The It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating in Cleveland [Paperback]

Andrea McGinty (Author), Nancy Kirsch (Author), Mark Frankovic (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2010 | Series: It's Just Lunch

Want to make good dates great? Mediocre dates more fun? Bad dates better? Let the experts at It's Just Lunch, the dating service responsible for over 2,000,000 fun first dates, tell you how. The It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating in Cleveland provides a fresh, light-hearted approach to dating-plus it includes a Zagat-style guide to over 150 of Cleveland's best places to date.Find out the ten biggest dating blunders - Secret signals your date sends when they're interested (and when they're not) - Where to go in Cleveland to put you in the dating mood, meet people and start dating - The hottest places to go for first dates, second dates, creative dates, special occasions and much, much more. This book is part of the 50-book It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating series."Great dating advice & great ideas for dates. Buy one for yourself and all your single friends!" -Trish Bergin, Inside Edition

Editorial Reviews

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Chock full of fun ideas for dates wherever you are. -- Peter Sander, Co-author, Cities Ranked and Rated

Full of great ideas and great resources. A true treasure for singles. -- Greg Godek, Author, 1001 Ways to be Romantic

Great dating advice and great ideas for dates. Buy one for yourself and for all your single friends! -- Trish Bergin, Inside Edition

About the Author

Andrea McGinty founded It's Just Lunch, a dating service, almost 14 years ago after her engagement was suddenly called off. With over 65 offices worldwide now, she has been featured on Oprah, CNN, People and The New York Times. Nancy Kirsch is a dating expert who has been featured on The Today Show and in The Wall Street Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 114 pages
• Publisher: 10 Finger Press (January 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933174080
• ISBN-13: 978-1933174082
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,199,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Single in Cleveland? Buy this, read it, and take heed!, December 27, 2006

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Thomas F. Redmond (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating in Cleveland (Paperback)

Here's why I am highly recommending this book. A typical Cleveland dating situation:

Bunnie Bilgewater, recently divorced and in her late thirties, wants to avoid her angry ex-husband. The stupid loser likes to stand on the front lawn of her apartment building and yell embarrassing things up to her on the third floor, and the neighbors are getting pissed. Nothing left to do but find a way out.

One day, Bunnie decides to take action. She goes to Target and buys a miracle bra and a low cut sweater two sizes too small. "Time to stake out a man-claim," she laughingly tells one of the women at work the next day. At five o'clock, she promptly leaves her job in downtown Cleveland, hops on the rapid, and heads to the Eleven-Seven Lounge, one of the many "shot and a beer" joints close to where she lives, in one of the city's older neighborhoods.

One or two heads turn in the Eleven-Seven as Bunnie makes her way to the bar, orders a Jack and Coke and daintily plops her rear end on one of the barstools. About three hours ands several drinks later, a guy who looks like a failed version of Larry Fine challenges her to a game on the bowling machine. He smells like aqua velva and beer and has roofing tar all over his hands.

"Get lost," she tells the would-be Romeo. "Can'tcha see I'm busy?"
"Well, you ain't exactly no Paris Hilton, either. Ya want some popcorn?"
"Okay. You ain't George Clooney either, but you wear pants."

Several variations of this scene are repeated every night for the next two weeks. After that, Larry Fine moves in with Bunnie. At first, the two get along, but after about a week, Larry Fine stays out all night with one of his old girlfriends.

When he shows up at Bunnie's apartment the next day, she promptly punches him in the nose, causing his beak to bleed. He leaves the apartment a few minutes later with toilet paper stuffed in his nostrils.

Bunnie feels weird about getting so angry. Later the next day, the two make up and Larry Fine moves back in with Bunnie.

Three weeks later, Bunnie's landlord tells her that Larry Fine will no longer be allowed in the apartment building because he's responsible for setting fire to a couch in the lobby - the result of being in a drunken stupor. Bunnie objects, but the landlord says that he has the incident on videotape to prove it.

Bunnie returns to her apartment and confronts Larry Fine. After she punches him in the nose, she tells him to get lost, this time for good. Larry Fine packs up his belongings and bids his former love good-bye. He is last seen walking west along Lorain Avenue, leaving Bunnie and the old neighborhood, never to be seen again.

The next day, Bunnie returns to her place on the barstool at the Eleven-Seven to stake out another man-claim.

"I'm getting to be a tired old babe," she says while confiding her situation to Heather, another female customer at the Eleven-Seven. "I don't know how much more of this I can take."

"Get used to it kid," says Heather. "I just saw a guy wearing a dress the other night and I'm going to stay the hell out of Lakewood."

People, dating doesn't need to be this way! Buy this book, read it, and take heed!