Cornyn Blind Date Suddenly Goes Sour
"Innocent observations" alarm companion; visit abruptly cut short when woman flees

Although he'd mapped out the entire evening Senator John Cornyn still can't
figure out what went wrong with his fourth blind date this year. "Happens
a lot," he sighed. According to Cornyn, who will not reveal the lady's name, the
date got off to an auspicious start. Picking up his date promptly at 7 p.m.
Saturday night, Cornyn sailed right into his first bit of dilly-dally."She
looked spectacular," chuckled Cornyn, "so I told her, 'you look
spectacular!'" He continued, "then I told her the dress she was wearing
was sexy - so sexy she'd have to tread carefully at night, if she's alone, see,
because someone with her curvaceous figure -- in such a skimpy outfit -- could
easily find herself being gang-raped in a dumpster."

Despite his smooth overture, Cornyn said his compliments didn't go over as
well as he thought they would. "That's when she started looking at her
watch every minute or so," he groaned. But Cornyn let any perception of
rejection roll off his back. "It was as far as I'd gotten all year, so I
kept my head up and kept pushing forward, man."

During dinner, however, his date's ultra- sensitive political correctness
finally pre- vailed. "I jokingly told the manager prices like his could
get a man shot, that someone might blow up his restaurant. She ran
out."