AccordionGuy says he prefers dating to "hooking up". Up until a couple of years ago, I thought "hooking up" meant getting a phone number at the bar. My friends, just before we were heading out, would tell me such things as "Richie, you're going to hook up tonight!" (To women who go to bars looking for some hot lovin': everything else being equal, would you prefer to "hook up" with a guy named Richard or Rich, or Richie? The question is half-honest, half-rhetorical.) Anyway, guys who are self-conscious about how they look in social situations find it more difficult to get laid when they're told they're gonna get some than if they're not told so. Same goes for "have you hooked up yet?" Hopefully that information comes in handy for your self-conscious friend that you wish the best for.
Okay, I suppose for whom you wish ill too.
