[Rick Lee]

If she's an adult, she probably has no problem protecting herself. You don't invite some stranger to pick you up at your house on a first date. Though I've had women do it. The shady people are pretty easy to weed out. If they fail to give you their real names or phone numbers, use email through the service instead of their own, that's a red flag.

Actually, I did go out with a real shady one. Though she had a very high-paying, high-flying job and just about stalked me. She even brought her sister with her to meet me at a Starbucks. As soon as she saw me, she sent her sister away, convinced I was who I said I was. Would you believe this nut had gone through the trouble of having an alias on her credit card? On our first real date, we were going to the Spy Museum and she left her purse in my truck, but needed her credit card to get the tickets at Will Call. Because it was raining, she sent me back to the truck and specifically said just to take her credit card out of her wallet. I didn't rifle through it, just grabbed the credit card and went back inside. When the whole thing fell apart a few weeks later, she apologized for stringing me along and sent me the email from her work email. Her name was totally different than on the credit card and what she had told me before. She really wanted to start a relationship and figured she'd better come clean sooner than later. I dropped her like a hot potato.