What are your dating "rules"?

You go out on a first date with someone. You have a good time or a bad time… then what happens? If the date is good, do you contact the person right away or do you wait? If it’s bad, do you follow up, or do you let the contact fade?

Is one person supposed to make the call, the other person supposed to wait? Should the post-date contact be made by a particular person (i.e. the guy)? Should it be after a certain amount of time (24 hours, 3 days, etc.)?

I’m sure most of us are aware of The Rules, which I find to be mostly B.S. with a dash of common sense thrown in.

I’m mainly very curious here as to how you operate and how you like things to go. I find the time after a first date to be a bit awkward because of the uncertainty. Whether your perceptions were correct and that sort of thing. Not wanting to seem over-eager or to scare the person off, ‘should I play it cool’, that sort of thing.