First dates can be super awkward. You’ve probably built a rapport with your date online, but now that they’re in front of you, it’s raining crickets. What happens when the list of things you rehearsed to say have been exhausted?

What you need then will be activities. The following should work like a charm.

1. Pick your nose

Your date does it too, don’t be shy.

2. Paint your nails

By the time you’re done with all ten fingers, you’d have thought of something punchy to say.

3. Order something you can lick or suck

Think ice cream, soup with periwinkles in it, banana or draw soup. Anything that can demonstrate your err…skills.

4. Spread mat and sleep

If the words are not coming, don’t force it. When you sleep and wake up, your date would have taken their leave so you won’t have to talk. Problem solved.

5. Break plate on their head

Especially if they turned out to be totally different from what they projected online.

6. Make out

When words fail, let lips do the talking, mixed with saliva here and there.

7. Stare into their eyes

You’ve talked enough. Now, it’s time to let silence reign. While you look into their eyes, remember to watch out for traces of wickedness.

Better still, you can sit in your house and avoid going on the said date instead of stressing over what to say laidis.