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	<passage mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/2711.mp3" title="Blind Date"><![CDATA[<div id="passage"><p><strong>Doron:</strong> I'm a bit schizophrenic when it
  comes to dates actually cause ... I'll either do
  something really boring and cheesy like
pizza and a movie.</p><p><strong>Melissa: </strong> That's not boring.</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> Really?</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> Well, it's traditional then. I'll say traditional.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>It could be fun but if you're already at the point where
the girl's like in your house ordering pizza and a movie that's ...</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> Well, I was talking about eating out and going to the
  cinema. You already got the guy back to your house. Very
forward.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Well, pizza and a movie sounds like pizza delivery and
  video rentals, so I see what you mean. I could always go out for a
pizza.</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> I like doing that but then on the other hand, I also like to
  do something totally strange and different, like when I was living
  in Berlin in Germany a couple of years ago, I met a girl I liked and
  I invited her out for a date, and she surprised me by saying yes,
  so I had to find something to do and I was bored of movies and
  pizza so we went to a restaurant near my apartment, but the
  restaurant was really, really cool because it was totally, totally
black. There were no lights.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Wow!</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> You just go in there and order from a menu in the foyer
  and then you get taken to a table by a blind waiter and you can't
see anything.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>No way!</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> I think they're quite famous. There's two or three around
  the world. One in New York I think, and also in London and it was
  the craziest experience because you just have to talk, and I think
  that's really cool because you don't look at the person. You don't
care if they're cute or whatever. You just really get to know them.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>That's cool. Were there lot's of people there?</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> It was packed. You had to make a reservation. It was
really, really packed.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>How could you find your way to the restroom?</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> You had to ask. You had to ring a little bell and then a
blind waiter would come and take you.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>What do you mean a blind waiter?</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> All of the waiters and the waitresses, and the waiting staff,
they were all blind or partially sighted.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Oh, really.</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> Not the chefs. I think the chefs could see.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Oh, OK.</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> But the staff there, they were partially sighted.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Oh, that's interesting.</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> So they learned the room really well because they could
  see and they were your guides. It was a really interesting date,
just ...</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>It's interesting just from the view point of experiencing
  what it would be like to be blind because I think people don't get
to experience that enough.</p>
<p><strong>Doron:</strong> Exactly, and to know that maybe when you see someone
  blind in the street, you think, ah, poor guy, poor girl, but then all of
  a sudden, they're the ones that know their way around and you
rely on them.</p>
<p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Yeah, that's really cool.</p></div>]]>
	
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