I require a phone conversation before meeting my dates.
We don't need to chit chat for hours or anything, although I have had a couple of times where the conversation flowed so well and we (the gent and I) clicked so, that next thing you know, 2 hours had flown by...
I can get a sense of a person's personality that can never be gauged from reading words on a screen.
And there have been a few times that I ended up declining the date due to my spidey senses going off during the phone call..
It doesn't work for all, BUT it works for me.
*curtsy*
~Genesis Nicole~