The most romantic program on television, First Dates, aired on Wednesday night a new installment full of dates between different diners. All of them present themselves with the hope of meeting someone who adapts to their way of being and their tastes. However, there are very few who truly manage to create a beautiful bond over dinner. Despite everything, many decide to try their luck again within the four walls of the restaurant in the hope of achieving their long-awaited happy ending.
A decision made by Manuel, a 70-year-old Basque single, who returned to the program six years later to have a second chance in the complicated search for love. Since his time on the program, the bachelor had been with 15 women. ''Do you keep an accounting of the women who are with you?'' Carlos Sobera asked. ''I like women a lot,'' he said.
But the bachelor left the presenter stunned when he explained what he was really looking for in the program. ''I want a woman like the one I have now,'' he revealed. ''If you have one, why are you here?'' the presenter replied in total disbelief. ''Let's see if I know someone else and I'll leave that one of hers,'' the bachelor responded. ''I'm getting sweaty. Are you in a relationship now? '' Sobera stressed without believing what she was hearing. The bachelor explained that he only went out to eat with a woman from time to time. ''I'm very fiery,'' he revealed.
His date was going to be Isabel, a 67-year-old single woman from Zaragoza, whose decision was clear as soon as she saw Manuel. ''When I saw it... it looked like a stopper, a keychain for me,'' she asserted. After exchanging their first words, the presenter accompanied the couple to their table, where they began the evening talking about their lives.
Manuel said that in his youth he came to work for Franco. A curiosity that scared the single woman. ''I really dislike Francoists,'' stated the woman from Zaragoza, who in turn asked her date if she was right-wing. ''My family has all been from the PSOE,'' explained the bachelor. But Manuel was not entirely sincere with Isabel. ''I was never a socialist, my family was,'' he explained.
Age was also another impediment for the single woman. And even though Manuel had told her that she was 70 years old, she was convinced that she was older. ''I see him too old for me,'' she said.
At one point during the dinner, the singles agreed in their way of thinking about sex. ''If there is no passion, sex doesn't work,'' she declared. ''It's everything,'' the Basque replied. Furthermore, Manuel considered himself a very fiery man in bed. A confession that Isabel questioned. ''I can't imagine Manuel in bed, I crush him,'' she confessed.
In the final stretch of the evening, the First Dates restaurant was transformed into a dance floor, where Manuel made it more than clear that dancing was not his thing. ''It's a disaster,'' Isabel acknowledged. Therefore, in the final decision there were no surprises and both preferred to remain friends.
