Be reasonably sober. Friend of mine was having dinner with his date and she got up and left when he was trying to cut up the napkin on his plate thinking it was fish. Then he was asked to leave too.
You mean there are meant to be rules?? Ohhhh so that's where I was going wrong - I never had any rules :P Someone might have told me there were supposed to be rules :P
To be fair I really didn't ever have any rules - I treated each person as entirely new, different and unique from anyone else I had dated before... no expectations, no rules, no agenda.