Meeting at the office, workplace, or school
After-work or school dates have advantages as well as a few pitfalls:
Unless you work in a one-person operation, you're meeting in a public place and can keep your private home address to yourself for now.
Presumably, your co-workers will still be around. It's a great opportunity to see how well your date relates to others.
You can still exercise the option to provide your own transportation from work — you can leave your car there and call a cab from the restaurant or theater.
One disadvantage is that it increases the pressure for your date to offer to escort you home if you haven't left a car at your meeting place.
Another disadvantage: Now your date knows where to find you eight hours a day. At home, at least you can leave the machine on or change your phone number if the situation gets too dicey (for example, your date won't take no for an answer). In some working environments — a store, restaurant, driving a city bus — it can be much harder to avoid a too-ardent admirer.
Meeting somewhere near work can offset the major disadvantage of meeting at work: blowing your cover.
Meeting in your 'hood
Your neighborhood is your territory. It's where you feel comfy and known. Meeting at some nearby landmark — the fountain in town, the gas station, the Piggly Wiggly — has several advantages. It's public, close to home, and chances are, neighbors who care about you will see you.
Take cash
Always make sure you have enough cash to get yourself home should you decide to walk away in a huff. Tuck twenty bucks inside your shoe. Just remember to take it out at the end of the evening or you'll have a closet full of cash.
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