Very Blind Date
Updated : Apr 23, 2009
If VeryHappyPig’s mother was to set up a blind date for her favourite piglet, VHP would be a certainty to stand the potentially very lucky woman up.
Not only is Mrs VHP eyesight not what it used to be, meaning we could end up dining with a Sylvester Stallone’s mother look alike, but VHP’s mother is also desperate for VeryHappyPig to get married.
This in turn means once it was female and could procreate it would past the VeryHappyPig mother test.
That is why VeryHappyPig holds a great deal of pity for the thousands of Chinese singletons who were set up on Blind Dates by parents desperate to off load them last weekend.
On Sunday afternoon thousands of people gathered near Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium for a mass blind date.
But the scene was not the usual one of young swinging singles mixing and mingling; rather, it was full of anxious parents looking for love for their still single adult children.
At the entrance a billboard with heart shaped signs gave attendees instructions: "If you are a parent of a son looking for a girlfriend, please wear a blue ribbon. If you are a parent of a daughter looking for a boyfriend, please wear a red ribbon. If you are a single, please wear a tag [saying] ‘I’m looking for you!’"
