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    <title>How To Bring Home a Date When You Have a Roommate</title>
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      <![CDATA[Having a date over to your place for the first time is nerve-racking enough without having to worry about your embarrassing roommate. ]]>
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        <![CDATA[Careful planning]]>
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        <![CDATA[A little luck]]>
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        <![CDATA[Some snacks and drinks to offer your guest]]>
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          <![CDATA[Tell your roommate that you will be bringing a date home. Hopefully, this will ensure that you don’t happen upon any unwanted surprises. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Tell your roommate that you will be bringing a date home. Hopefully, this will ensure that you don’t happen upon any unwanted surprises.</p>]]>
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        <title>Establish a code</title>
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          <![CDATA[Establish a code that you’ll use when you want the roommate to excuse himself. Ideally, it should be a phrase that will flow smoothly into the conversation, like, “Would you like something to eat?”]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Establish a code that you’ll use when you want the roommate to excuse himself. Ideally, it should be a phrase that will flow smoothly into the conversation, like, “Would you like something to eat?”</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Speaking of food, make sure your roommate knows that the fine Champagne and goose liver pate in the fridge are not for him. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Speaking of food, make sure your roommate knows that the fine Champagne and goose liver pate in the fridge are not for him.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Forewarn your date about any of your housemate’s weird traits and tics. It helps if they’re prepared for the worst. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Forewarn your date about any of your housemate’s weird traits and tics. It helps if they’re prepared for the worst.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[This is your opportunity to blame anything embarrassing about your dwelling—like the stained carpeting or garbage bin brimming with beer cans—on your roomie. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>This is your opportunity to blame anything embarrassing about your dwelling—like the stained carpeting or garbage bin brimming with beer cans—on your roomie.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Come up with a few things your date and your roommate have in common so you won’t face awkward silence once the introductions are made. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Come up with a few things your date and your roommate have in common so you won’t face awkward silence once the introductions are made.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Have your roommate present the snacks and drinks with an ease that says, “We enjoy this civilized ritual every night.” ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Have your roommate present the snacks and drinks with an ease that says, “We enjoy this civilized ritual every night.”</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[Enjoy a few laughs at your roomie’s expense when he leaves the room. Unwarranted cruelty is always a great way to bond. ]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>Enjoy a few laughs at your roomie’s expense when he leaves the room. Unwarranted cruelty is always a great way to bond.</p>]]>
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          <![CDATA[<p>In one poll, 12% of renters said they liked having a roommate so much they wouldn’t rent without one.</p>]]>
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