Well, well, well. It’s already that time of the year when readers pick the fate of four guys and four girls to go on a blind date via 605magazine.com.

Profiles were put up in early January and dates commenced soon after with varying (and in some cases awkward) results.

Who is going on a second date? Who was asked to say grace before dinner? Who had food poisoning the day of their date? 

Teaser…

Alex + Andrea

Phillips Avenue Diner

605 called Alexander (Alex) Gutnik Sunday morning to make sure he had the right time for his date that afternoon. Unbeknownst to the magazine, he had been getting sick all night long and was hoping it was a cancellation call.

He officially had food poisoning.

“I had all the symptoms,” grumbled Gutnik.

Not wanting to reschedule for the sake of coordination and to not inconvenience his mystery date, he took a swig of Pepto-Bismol and was on his way.

This was incredibly unfortunate since Gutnik had just recovered from a bout of Influenza. But the “double bang” on his body didn’t stop him from looking dapper and showing up to the Phillips Avenue Diner early.

Andrea Keupp wasn’t sure who would be waiting for her in the lobby, and was seemingly rushed when she arrived.

“I was really nervous going into it because I wasn’t sure what to expect with any of the guys,” she said.

When Gutnik saw who walked through the door, he put his best game face on. He had a feeling he would be paired with Keupp after reading her bio, and was happy his intuition was right.

“I was looking at all four girls, and I felt like [Andrea] was who I was going to end up with,” he said. “She likes to party a little bit, and I like to party.”

Keupp, who works at Dakota Performance Solutions and is a bartender at Borrowed Bucks Roadhouse, had the opposite feelings about Gutnik’s bio. Noting that he wrote about applying for law school and volunteers at the Union Gospel Mission, she thought he was anything but the party, chill type.

Once they sat down, she was relieved to discover he was more than his Blinded by Love description.

“He said he was going to law school, so I figured he would be this serious student,” she said, describing how they actually had a lot in common. “It was nice because I’m more of a laidback person myself.”

Once he shed his “straight-laced, church-going” image, the conversation started flowing. He was impressed by her intellect and really respected her confidence.

He said, “She’s very independent, is educated…”

Independence was very important to Gutnik, who has had a history of dating women who don’t have their own core group of friends.

“She had this whole social network of her own friends,” he said, divulging that the pair shared a lot of similar guidelines for relationships.

When the food came, Gutnik realized his mistake. On a fragile stomach, he ordered a Cajun sandwich. His stomach rebelled, and the jig was up.

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